The field of New Testament textual criticism was strongly influenced by the publication of Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus: The Story behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. The publication's main argument was that the early orthodox faith radically changed the text to conform to their views.

This article reviews Bart Ehrman's book on textual criticism, Misquoting Jesus. It introduces the field of textual criticism and Ehrman as a scholar.

During the last third of the twentieth century in New Testament textual criticism, a small but growing number of students accept the theory that the original text is to be found in a majority of manuscripts. This revival of the Majority Text theory is multifaceted.