One of the great things about being a research scholar is that if you’re diligent and paying attention, you learn new stuff all the time. For someone with an inquiring mind, it’s like striking gold with some fair regularity. And if you dig deep enough, you find things that very few people know about – often even scholars within your own field. I first read the book of Revelation when I was seventeen; I had a college course on it two years later; and have studied it ever since. But it was not until a couple of years ago that I came to know something about the very oldest commentary we have on the book. Read by Petra Ortiz
Dr. Ehrman talks about several gaps in our historical knowledge of the events surrounding Jesus's birth. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
Bart appreciates the controversial views of the late John Shelby Spong. Read by John Paul Middlesworth.
Dr. Ehrman concludes his thoughts on Revelation by arguing that the Jesus depicted by John of Patmos is a domineering figure very different from...