Bart Ehrman Jesus Interrupted

What do you think of Bart Ehrman’s books Misquoting Jesus and Jesus Interrupted?

Actually I have read them. I was just curious to see what others thought of him. By the way, he leaned Greek, not Hebrew. He had no reason to learn Hebrew. He is a New Testament scholar which was originally written in Greek. Its the Old Testament that was written in Hebrew. That’s not his expertise.
Cretinist, you are right about most Christians not reading his books. Its really a shame though. Not all his books offer his personal belief. Many as Rev V mentioned are great scholarly works. A matter of fact, some of his books are used in seminaries all over the country.

I have read most of his books. His earliest books are very good scholarly works. The Apostolic Fathers, Christianity in Late Antiquity, After the New Testament, Lost Scriptures, Lost Christianities, and Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene are great examples of scholarship that offer little to no controversy. Most of the debate appears to be based on only five books. This is small considering he has authored more than twenty. These books are The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet, Misquoting Jesus, Jesus Interrupted and God’s Problem. In his early works he all but leaves out his personal bias. His later works though seem to focus entirely on this. That in itself is not wrong. For we all have personal biases. It is true what Panther stated about assumption. What we assume to be true is often what we see when we read scripture. Some of what Ehrman writes I agree with. It has to be understood that many Christians do, many scholars as well. Its the more Conservative and Fundamentalist Christians and scholars who find so much issue with him. Unlike him I am not an agnostic. I am a Christian through and through. Unlike him I do not believe the original message was lost. The bible translations we have today are close enough to the originals to get the original message. The one area I do agree with him though is in that of contradictory theologies. When most Christians read the New Testament they do so with bias. They tend not to notice that many different theological beliefs are present within the New Testament. This is one reason there are so many Christian denominations today. Just as we have many kinds of Christians today, so also was the case in the first three centuries. Because of this, different ideas and beliefs can be found depending on the book you read. But unlike Bart Ehrman, I accept this and am not ready to throw out the baby with the bath water.
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Jesus, Interrupted Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible by Bart Ehrman 3/4

Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don’t Know About Them) $9.08 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. 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 …

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why $5.00 When world-class biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to the New Testament and shows the great impact they h…

Forged: Writing in the Name of God–Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are $4.94 It is often said, even by critical scholars who should know better, that “writing in the name of another” was widely accepted in antiquity. But New York Times bestselling author Bart D. Ehrman dares to call it what it was: literary forgery, a practice that was as scandalous then as it is today. In Forged, Ehrman’s fresh and original research takes readers back to the ancient world, wher…