Author of "Misquoting Jesus" radio interview on "Fresh Air" now (3:00pm)

[Up2Late]

On most NPR radio stations in the East, or it is also available on-line.

Bart Ehrman's new book is how and why the words of Jesus and the Bible were changed over the years by the Catholic church, among others. Here's more info:

Bart Ehrman's 'Misquoting Jesus'

Listen to this story...(at link above)
by Terry Gross

Fresh Air from WHYY, December 14, 2005 · Scholar Bart Ehrman's new book explores how scribes -- through both omission and intention -- changed the Bible. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why is the result of years of reading the texts in their original languages.

Ehrman says the modern Bible was shaped by mistakes and intentional alterations that were made by early scribes who copied the texts. In the introduction to Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman writes that when he came to understand this process 30 years ago, it shifted his way of thinking about the Bible. He had been raised as an Evangelical Christian.

Ehrman is also the author of Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, which chronicles the period before Christianity as we know it, when conflicting ideas about the religion were fighting for prominence in the second and third centuries.

The chairman of the religious studies department at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Ehrman also edited a collection of the early non-canonical texts from the first centuries after Christ, called Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament.

Read an excerpt from Misquoting Jesus (at link below):

<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5052156>

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I've read Neil Douglas-Klotz's books about the scriptures for years

He learned Aramaic and translated Christian texts directly to English. One thing I recall is in "Desert Wisdom" he said that the Aramaic thinking and Greek thinking were different-the Greeks seeing duality-something has to be either this or that, while in Aramaic things could be both (like the physics concept of light being both a particle and a wave).

Fresh Air comes on in an hour here-I'll be sure to listen to it. Thanks for the heads up!

[Up2Late]

7. I found it amazing that some of my favorite stories, credited to Jesus...

...were actually found to have been added by scribes over the centuries. Really makes MOST people think (sadly, not all).

[slor]

2. Thanks for posting n/t

[oregonindy]

3. This is AWESOME!!!!!

[G_j]

4. YES

[orwell]

5. Great Interview...

...Thanks for the link.

[Lorien]

6. Darn-missed that today. Thanks for the link! n/t