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New Testament scholar Bart D. Ehrman grew up in Lawrence, Kansas and graduated from Wheaton College in 1978. He earned his Masters of Divinity and PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and has taught at Rutgers University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is the James mostrar mais A. Gray Distinguished Professor. He has published more than 20 scholarly and popular books, including three New York Times bestsellers, plus numerous articles and book reviews. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Jesus Interrupted (2009) 1,338 exemplares
How Jesus Became God (2014) 745 exemplares
Did Jesus Exist? (2012) 416 exemplares
Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 C.E.: A Reader (2003) — Editor — 104 exemplares
The New Testament, Part 2 of 2 (2000) 64 exemplares
How Jesus Became God (2014) 51 exemplares
The Apostolic Fathers (2003) 27 exemplares
The Triumph of Christianity (2018) 9 exemplares
New Testament 1 exemplar
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The Other Gospels 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Gospel of Judas (2006) — Contribuidor — 1,007 exemplares
The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot (2006) — Prefácio, algumas edições492 exemplares
Eerdmans' Dictionary of the Bible (2000) — Contribuidor, algumas edições432 exemplares
Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições346 exemplares
The Bible as book : the transmission of the Greek text (2003) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
Jesus: His Life (A&E Biography) [1995 TV episode] (1995) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
New Testament Textual Criticism, Exegesis and Church History (1994) — Contribuidor, algumas edições9 exemplares

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This is highly recommended for those wanting to know how the Bible was put together and how books were judged to be holy cannon. Erdrich addresses the many early opinions on what defined a Christian and the writings by authors whose beliefs were out of the mainstream. These included the secret knowledge of the Gnostics, and the ideas that Jesus was only human or only God. He also sheds light on certain books whose authorship is not as attributed.

It’s a fascinating story, told clearly and with great scholarship.

This was from the library. I need to purchase a copy and listen to it again, strictly due to the wealth of information.
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streamsong | 3 outras críticas | Mar 5, 2024 |
New Testament scholar Bart D. Ehrman treats the Book of Revelation as an outlier in the New Testament canon, presenting a portrait of Jesus as an angry, vengeful, jealous deity who will destroy most of the human race. The book’s author, John of Patmos, was convinced that Jesus would soon return to destroy the Roman empire, saving only his devoted “slaves,” a word he uses in preference to milder words like servants or followers. Jesus, here, is God’s warrior avatar. He and God are out for blood. The Jesus of love and mercy described by the gospel of John is nowhere to be found. Ehrman agrees with Christopher Frillingos that Revelation is “a frankly imperialist narrative” that predicts the establishment of a Christian empire to replace Rome. Ironically, the new empire will be based on the Roman belief that “wealth and domination can be ultimate goods.” Such an ideology, Ehrman says, is contrary to the Jesus presented in the Gospels, who advocated a life of service to others as the ultimate good.… (mais)
 
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Tom-e | 6 outras críticas | Feb 13, 2024 |
A favorite author has a lot of expectations to meet, and this one did not disappoint. The author takes us through the evolution of the concepts of heaven and hell in Christian theology, starting with the pagans and the Jews. He spends a large portion of the book on the early ideas, and covers the development within Christianity much more succinctly. I think this is a good decision, but mostly because of a personal preference not everyone will agree with: I think the pagan and Jewish ideas of afterlife are more interesting to read about, and society has not been saturated with those ideas for my entire life. The only thing about the book I found offputting is the constant assumption of what Jesus really said or didn't really say. Without contemporary records, there is simply no way to know if he said anything that is attributed to him. I am aware of the methodology that religious scholars use to determine that; as a scientist, I think it's mostly hogwash. Other than that, I highly recommend the book.… (mais)
 
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Devil_llama | 8 outras críticas | Feb 11, 2024 |

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Obras
95
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9
Membros
18,917
Popularidade
#1,155
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
388
ISBN
333
Línguas
15
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