Bart D. Ehrman
Birth date: October 05, 1955
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Not a book I can imagine having broad appeal. I'm an Ehrman fan, I think he does an amazing job of explaining the science of the history of the bible. And I also enjoy reading about ecclesiastical history. This book follows the progression of the idea of Jesus over time, from the earliest believers ...
Understanding means learning how things became the way they are. Things are the way they are because they became the way they are. It's a tautology, but understanding often relies on a conclusion residing in a premise. (After all, F=ma is a tautology, and it got us to the moon, while it took the ...
This is an interesting book, which is strongest in the middle. It takes a little while to get going as Ehrman outlines the general beliefs about humanity and divinity in Jesus' time, but it picks up when he starts actually looking at the Gospels in his historical search for how beliefs about Jesus e...
I'm not completely sure why I decided to read this one. It's a different from the religion books I tend to read (I've also read God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything this month and that is an odd combination!) This book is very focused on the early history of Christianity which is som...
This book reads like a science book and I kept listening with my full attention. I found myself replaying segments multiple times because I really wanted to know what the author was saying. The author does three things to set up his thesis, he tells the listener 1) how a person would have historical...