Short ‘Commercial’ for the Misquoting Jesus Podcast by Bart Ehrman
Christians criticize him (very often unfairly and without reading him seriously) for trying to deconvert people of faith. He does not. He is sincerely a scholar who does not presuppose the infallibility of scripture, but studies it as any historian would study essential tests from any era.
Brief Thoughts after reading “Why the Bible Began,” by Jacob Wright (2023)
Defeated populations viewed their subjugation as a source of shame… opting instead to extol the golden ages of the past… The thread that ties together [the Hebrew Bible] is a question that was trailblazing at the time: What does it mean to be a people? -J. Wright