Description: Today we are joined by Professor Bart Ehrman. We talk about the New Testament as a piece of literature. Dr. Ehrman will show us some of the interesting historical context of the text and we will also discuss the New Testament in film!

 

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Thank you for joining us today for this very special interview with one of the most acclaimed biblical scholars of our day, Professor Barr Ermine. Dr Irwin is a religious studies professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in the United States. He is the author or editor of over 30 bucks, including the soon to be released book the triumph of Christianity, how a forbidden religions swept the world. He is also the author of the book last Christianity's, which I read from cover to cover several times over. We are going to have a wide ranging conversation on the rise of Christianity, the Bible, and the Bible and Christianity in popular culture. Dr Herman has appeared on the history channel, BBC Jon Stewart show. I mean, you name it. It is. Um, I'm just incredibly humbled to have you on the show. Thank you so much for joining us today.

Yeah, thanks for. Thanks for having me. It's my pleasure.

Now, can you maybe give us a little bit about your background and your areas of academic interest?

You're right, you want my academic background? So I, um, uh, I uh, did my graduate work at Princeton theological seminary, um, did both a masters of divinity and a phd there. I went to Princeton because I was interested in studying the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament and the world expert in that topic was a man named Bruce Metzger who taught at Princeton theological seminary. And so I had, I had no other particular interest in going to princeton seminary other than this fellow top there. And so I went there and did a master's thesis with him, then did my phd there. And, uh, the field I worked on was the study of the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. I'm the technical field of textual criticism. Um, while I was finishing my phd there, I started teaching at Rutgers University, uh, in New Jersey and was there for four years. And now I've been at a University of North Carolina for 30 years. So that's the rough academic background.

So you got interested in the Bible through the Greek manuscripts. What drew you towards those?

Uh, well, actually, um, I got interested in the Bible because of my personal religious commitments back when I was a young when I was a teenager. Um, and uh, I had a born again experience in high school and decided I wanted to know more about the Bible. And so my initial college experience was actually at a fundamentalist Bible school. I'm Moody Bible Institute and it was there that I was, I was very, very death angelical Christian and I believed at the time that the Bible's very words had been inspired by God in some way. Uh, and I got interested in Greek manuscripts because I knew the different manuscripts had different wording and I was interested in knowing how do we establish what the original wording is, um, given the fact that we have so many manuscripts with so many difference...