Hello everyone and welcome back to misquoting Jesus.

Early Christian writings from outside the New Testament contain some pretty unexpected material.

A giant walking, talking cross and Jesus' childhood pastime of bringing clay birds to life are both examples that we have discussed before.

But do these additional documents also contain authentic sayings of Jesus that are overlooked by Christians because they're not contained within the New Testament?

Join us today as we delve into this subject.

Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman.

The only show where a six-time New York Times bestselling 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.

Welcome back. Today we're going to be talking about whether early Christian writings from

outside of the New Testament contain any authentic sayings of Jesus. Bart also has some

listeners questions to answer. But before all of that, Bart, how are you doing today?

Yeah, I'm doing pretty well today. This past weekend, I finally got my manuscript sent off to my publisher.

This book I've been writing seems like forever, but on how the teachings of Jesus transformed the moral conscience of the West.

You know, how our thinking about morality and what it means to be a good person and what to do

good things changed with the teachings of Jesus. And so it's been a book I've thought about for a

long time and it took me longer to write than normal. And it is such a huge relief to have it

off my plate. Now I just need to wait for the editor to rip into it. And then I'll

be back in my stress and anxiety. But for now, I'm feeling pretty good. Perfect. Perfect.

Yeah. So how are you doing? Yes, very well. Thank you. I am the opposite side of things to you.

I am not writing a book. I am editing a book. Josh has started to write an introduction to biblical

Hebrew grammar. And I don't know

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