This book is great for someone who wants to read an introduction to the New Testament without the feel of taking a standard college course in the field. Ehrman does line out some very intriguing contradictions, but none of them are really surprising. It is nice, however, to get reminded of these ...
I have never come across a work on this subject matter, from either christian or non-christian, which goes into the history of the belief in Jesus being the son of God. The author does a wonderful job ob of exploring both the social milieu during the evolution of the beliefs, as well as the bibli...
This book isn’t what I would call exciting reading, but if you’re interested in the early religious writings it is informative. There is a short introduction about each of these “lost books” and then the actual translation. Of course, these books weren’t actually “lost” because we have copies o...