![]() ![]() ![]() In part, Ehrman roots his way through the liberal side of NT scholarship, delivering the standard canards regarding the inauthenticity of the NT books, but he also scrapes barrel bottom to argue for contradictions within the NT. ![]() But within the remainder of Jesus Interrupted are some new arguments or better said, new to Ehrman, but not to the experienced Christian. ![]() A couple of chapters are summary versions of the contents of his prior books ( Misquoting Jesus, God’s Problem, and Lost Christianities), volumes not without serious problems of their own. Jesus Interrupted is a broad attempt by Ehrman to undermine the reliability of the New Testament. With his latest volume, Jesus Interrupted, the scale has come down heavily on the “agenda” side of the equation. 2 In prior volumes, there was some room for doubt in terms of whether Ehrman was simply naïve in this regard, or had some overarching agenda to attempt to argue others into following in his spiritual footsteps. Regrettably, Ehrman is a self-professed agnostic and former ultra-fundamentalist 1 Christian who all too often has permitted the exegetical excesses of his past to color his writings of the present. Please Pardon This Interruption Review of Jesus Interrupted by Bart Ehrmanīiblical scholar Bart Ehrman has lately made a career out of brokering Biblical scholarship for the average reader. ![]()
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