{"id":3846,"date":"2006-03-23T00:09:47","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T00:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/bart-ehrman-superstar.html"},"modified":"2006-03-23T00:09:47","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T00:09:47","slug":"bart-ehrman-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/bart-ehrman-superstar.html","title":{"rendered":"Bart Ehrman, Superstar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the next few days, I want to try to prepare a substantive post on Bart Ehrman, the lapsed-Christian Biblical scholar, head of the religion department at UNC – Chapel Hill, who is attracting much attention these days – his Misquoting Jesus<\/em> is selling quite well – it’s #14 on Amazon as I speak (or, er..write)<\/a>, and he was on Jon Stewart’s show last week. Not bad for a book on textual criticism. <\/p>\n

As I said, I want to prepare a good, thorough post on Ehrman and this book because obviously it’s something the general public is interested in. If anyone has any good links on this – substantive critiques or evaluations of this book, in particular, please sent them my way. I have a few already, most notably scholar Ben Witherington’s post on the book<\/a>, but I could use more. <\/p>\n

By the way, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why<\/em> was not the original title of the book. I picked up a pre-pub copy last year at RBTE – same cover, but the title was The Monk and the Messiah: The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why. <\/em><\/p>\n

Obviously, the first title wasn’t sexy enough. Even changing "New Testament" to "Bible" has a little more sizzle, since the word "Bible" would bring up the association of  "God’s Word" in a way that "New Testament" might not in the reader’s subconscious. <\/p>\n

No comments as yet – email me good links on this. I’ll credit you!<\/p>\n

Ehrman’s next book, due out in May: Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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