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
The Martyrdom of Perpetua and The Rise of Purgatory Read by Sharon Roberts
Dr. Ehrman looks at problematic ways of reading the Bible: the "Ouija Board" approach and the "Jigsaw Puzzle" approach Read by John Paul Middlesworth
Several people have recently asked (in reference to that pop quiz I gave to my class this semester) whether it is in fact right...