Welcome to Miss Quoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman.

The only show, where a six-time New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned Bible scholar,

uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity.

I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin.

Happy New Year, Bart, did you make any New Year's resolutions?

Ah, right. I normally don't reveal mine because it's bad luck,

but, you know, I've been finding it as bad luck even if I don't reveal them.

And so that strategy doesn't seem to work. I'll tell you,

you know, with adding this podcast and I have these courses that I do online, I do these one-off

lectures, and I have my daily blog, and I have a day job. It's like a little bit crazy. So my

New Year's resolution actually is not to cut back on things, just everything I do. I just love it. I like everything. Teaching undergraduates. I love giving it. I mean, I just, my resolution is to work even harder on not experiencing stress. And so if you find a way to do that, would you please let me know? Well, I know. You are absolutely as bad as me or worse. But it's just like, you know, the thing is, I do exercise every day. I sleep a lot and I read novels. You know, I do things. But, you know, I find that when I stress, it doesn't help. You know, it doesn't like make me more efficient. And it probably

shortens my life. And so this will be a stress-free year, I guarantee it. So how about you,

Megan? What do you got for New Year's resolution? Well, I am going to try and learn Greek.

So my husband has a master's in theology and did Greek at grad school.

And he very kindly offered to teach me the basics of Coyne Greek as I'm doing so much New Testament reading.

So we're going to try, at least.

I'm not a philologist by any stretch of the imagination, but we're going to give it a go.

Yeah.

Greek is a great language is, it's a great

language. And I, you know, and it's a very, very interesting language where it's kind of a logical language. It's kind of, you know, I've never, I've never been very good at Semitic languages. You know, I had to learn them. You know, I learned Hebrew and then I learned Syriac. And so it was, But it didn't really resonate with me.

But for some reason, the way my mind works, didn't really resonate with me.

But for some reason, the way my mind works, the kind of logic of Greek and Latin really

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