Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman

[webmdave]

Dr. Bart D. Ehrman is a New Testament scholar, textual critic, an expert on early Christianity, a professor and the chairman of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of "Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why." Ehrman attempts to discern, as near as possible, the original wording of the gospels, epistles, and other ancient texts. He champions the thesis that early Christians, as they developed a single, orthodox doctrine, altered the Biblical texts in order to make them more uniform and in line with changing beliefs.

 

Ehrman was an evangelical Christian as a teenager, and was very interested in what he thought was God's true message. However, Dr. Ehrman's subsequent close analysis of the Bible and research into the field of textual criticism destroyed his faith in the Bible.

 

Ehrman is now an agnostic, and is a prime example of someone who has looked at Christianity deeply but found it to be faulty as a religion.

 

This ten-part video presentation was recorded at Stanford University. Total length: one hour, 40 minutes.

 

http://exchristian.net/exchristian/2007/10...art-ehrman.html

[R. S. Martin]

Dave, can you clarify. I'm looking at this ad in your bookstore and also at the one on Amazon. Amazon calls it a book and you call it a video. I thought it was a book. Which is it? Is the price the same regardless?

[mwc]

Dave, can you clarify. I'm looking at this ad in your bookstore and also at the one on Amazon. Amazon calls it a book and you call it a video. I thought it was a book. Which is it? Is the price the same regardless?

If you look at the "Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why" link that goes to his book but if you click through to the link at the very bottom of the post that goes back to the ex-c site it will get you to the video lecture series (which looks to be a freebie).

 

mwc

[R. S. Martin]

Thanks. I'll have to check it out again.