This is a follow up to a previous book by Bible expert Ehrman, Misquoting jesus. It’s a brilliant piece of anti-christian writing, as a book. It includes revelations that, for example, Jesus, Paul, Matthew, and John all represented fundamentally different religions – and that hristian doctrines—such as the suffering messiah, the divinity of Jesus, and the trinity—were the inventions of later theologians – this will be a shock to people who believe the bible to be the literal word of god, but i get the feeling that it won’t change too many minds, and that people who have decided that they believe in the literal truth of the bible, and invested time in it, will simply choose to ignore this compelling book. Jesus Interrupted, by Bart Ehrman, goes on sale soon. Check out this video below:
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March 4th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
One of the other reasons it will get ignored is that people who read the bible or have backgrounds in Biblical studies know better. The idea that John’s gospel is different than the Synoptics, or that Paul invented Christianity are really quite old ideas and have been hashed and rehashed before, during, and incessantly since the Enlightenment. But proving the different books have differing emphasis (which everyone believes) is much easier that the idea they teach different religions.
I always tell people who are interested to do the unthinkable and actually read the New Testament with an open mind. In the end people often find it was Ehrman, like Dawkins, who is the new kind of un-nuanced fundamentalist missing the trees AND the forest for the Lichen.
The reason his work changes so few minds it is mostly lacks the property of being right.
March 5th, 2009 at 4:40 am
I have written a critique.
http://dawkinswatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/jesus-interupted-or-sense-interupted/
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