Ehrman does an excellent job of making the topic and scope of textual criticism accessible to non-scholars. While the entire book is excellent, the last chapter…specifically the last section of the last chapter…was the most important part of the book for me. Ehrman masterfully pieces together a case for the Bible as a human book, and then brings it full circle to discuss our own humanity and how it affects our reading and communication of and about any text we read. After I finished, I thought, “Every person who has read or will ever read the New Testament should read this.” It’s so essential to understanding how the NT was put together. But it also brings a new understanding to how we read ANY text. Highly recommended.