Ehrman reveals that many of the books were written in the names of the apostles by Christians living decades later, and that central Christian doctrines were the inventions of still later theologians. Visit the author online at Klappentext The Human Story Behind the Divine Book In this New York Times bestseller, leading Bible expert Bart Ehrman skillfully demonstrates that the New Testament is riddled with contradictory views about who Jesus was and the significance of his life.
He has appeared on Dateline NBC, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CNN, History, and top NPR programs, as well as been featured in TIME, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and other publications. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is the author of more than twenty books, including the New York Times bestsellers How Jesus Became God Misquoting Jesus God's Problem Jesus, Interrupted and Forged. Ehrman is one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today. Zusatztext "There's something delicious (for nonbelievers! anyway) about the implacable! dispassionate way that Ehrman reveals how the supposedly "divine truth" of Christianity was historically constructed." Informationen zum Autor Bart D.
In this episode Bart discusses what we can know about early Christian martyrdom - what sources of information we have and whether they are reliable, issues never even broached by the apologists who raise the issue in the first place.Examines contradictions and discrepancies that come to light when the New Testament is studied from a historical perspective, including varying views of Jesus and salvation and forgeries in the names of the apostles. In this episode we consider this claim by examining its unquestioned assumption: is it actually *true* that the apostles were all martyred for their faith? How do we know? How *could* we know? In fact, what do we know about martyrdom within Christianity at all in the first two centuries? How often did it occur? And were Christians martyred for saying that Jesus was raised from the dead? Therefore the disciples really were witnesses to the resurrection. Someone may die for the truth, but who would die for a lie? And ALL of them? That seems completely implausible. One of the claims consistently made by Christian apologists is that the apostles who declared that they themselves had seen Jesus after he had been raised from the dead MUST have been telling the truth - since they all died for their belief.
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