Good Faith by Jane Smiley
I think Jane Smiley is a very good writer, but this was just okay.
Jesus and the woman taken in adultery
Biblical scholarship has long been aware that the gospel account of the scribes and Pharisees bringing the woman taken in adultery to Jesus was not included in the earliest manuscripts of the gospel of John. In modern Bible publications the account is now commonly shown in brackets. For example, the English Standard Version (ESV), says in a footnote:
Some manuscripts do not include [John] 7:53–8:11; others add the passage here or after 7:36 or after 21:25 or after Luke 21:38, with variations in the text.
Having the account not only be missing in some manuscripts, but appearing in different places and with variations, makes it an interesting case.
The David Bentley Hart translation of the New Testament gives more detail and background to this:
There is little doubt among scholars that the episode of the woman taken in adultery was not written by the same hand that produced the surrounding text. It is not found in the earliest manuscripts of John, or in any Greek or Latin text stil…
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