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
Part of a prospectus for "The Invention of Charity," Bart's next book project. Read by Brandon M. Bender
Here's how you can sign up for the Bart Ehrman Blog Book Club 3. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
Everyone knows that Jesus was a carpenter. But was he really, and what was life like for someone like Jesus in Galilee 2,000 years...