This book is great for someone who wants to read an introduction to the New Testament without the feel of taking a standard college course in the field. Ehrman does line out some very intriguing contradictions, but none of them are really surprising. It is nice, however, to get reminded of these ...
I have never come across a work on this subject matter, from either christian or non-christian, which goes into the history of the belief in Jesus being the son of God. The author does a wonderful job ob of exploring both the social milieu during the evolution of the beliefs, as well as the bibli...
This book isn’t what I would call exciting reading, but if you’re interested in the early religious writings it is informative. There is a short introduction about each of these “lost books” and then the actual translation. Of course, these books weren’t actually “lost” because we have copies o...
views that ended up winning the early Christian battles over what to believe. There were lots of Christians who held other views, as we will see later in the book. For further reflections, see my book Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (New York: Oxford Un...
process. The scribes—whether non-professional scribes in the early centuries or professional scribes of the Middle Ages—were intent on “conserving” the textual tradition they were passing on. Their ultimate concern was not to modify the tradition, but to preserve it for themselves and for those w...
I am on sabbatical leave this year from my position at the University of North Carolina but had been asked to be a scholar in residence for a week at nearby High Point University. During the seminar, yesterday, a student asked if I was writing anything now, and I told her yes, I was writing a boo...