Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
2009 · book
Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Timesbestseller Misquoting Jesusleft off, Jesus, Interruptedaddresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches--& it's not what most people think. Here Ehrman reveals what scholars have unearthed: *The authors of the New Testament have diverging views about who Jesus was & how salvation works *The New Testament contains books that were forged in the names of the apostles by Christian writers who lived decades later *Jesus, Paul, Matthew & John all represented fundamentally different religions *Established Christian doctrines--such as the suffering messiah, the divinity of Jesus & the trinity--were the inventions of still later theologians These aren't idiosyncratic perspectives of just one scholar. They've been the standard widespread views of scholars across a full spectrum of denominations & traditions. Why is it most people have never heard such things? This is the book that pastors, educators & anyone interested in the Bible have been waiting for--a compelling account of the central challenges faced when attempting to reconstruct Jesus' life & message.