Bart Ehrman | Heaven & Hell

Matt D’Elia Is Confused

Matt D'Elia

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

World-renowned New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman is one of Matt’s actual real-life heroes— and somehow that isn’t even his greatest achievement. Bart has written over 30 books, including 6 New York Times Bestsellers, many of which focus on the origins of Christianity, how and why it spread so far and wide, and what Bart calls ‘the historical Jesus’— as in Jesus Christ the man, not Jesus Christ the messiah. Listen as Matt asks Bart everything he’s ever wanted to ask him — from what Jesus was really like, to why people of the time were so ready to adopt the ideas that early Christians were spreading — and Bart takes Matt on an in-depth tour of his upcoming book, ‘Heaven & Hell: A History Of The Afterlife’, which chronicles our collective ideas of heaven and hell, from their infancy (well before the time of Jesus) all the way up to today. Seriously, go on and hit ‘Play’— this one’s fucking biblical, man.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Matt Delia is confused.
0:03.0	This is Matt Delia and this week's guest
0:06.0	is a genuine, actual, real life, real deal,
0:11.0	hero of mine. His name is Bart Ehrman. He is a scholar. He is technically a New Testament scholar,
0:20.2	but he specializes and focuses on many things, but one of the things he focuses on is the origin of
0:28.7	Christianity and the historical Jesus as in the the person that was Jesus Christ
0:36.0	uh... and
0:38.4	as i said he is he is a hero of mine he had he
0:42.2	has single-handedly
0:46.1	ended
0:48.5	lots and lots of confusion for me personally
0:51.8	so I feel indebted to him and I felt so fucking lucky and
0:54.8	thrilled to get to have him on the podcast to talk about the things that have
1:00.7	confused me do confuse, and will always confuse me about early Christianity.
1:09.1	It's spread who Jesus was, what he was really like, why the fuck this idea spread and not another idea,
1:17.0	and on and on and on and on and on. My questions are endless and I got to ask just over the years of being a fan of Bart's and and being aware of his work
1:25.5	I've accumulated so many questions that I would love to ask him and I was able to ask him
1:32.4	in this interview and I'm
1:35.0	so fucking happy about it.
1:37.0	Yeah, he actually has a new book out coming out on March 31st.
1:41.0	It's called Heaven and Hell, a history of the afterlife, and it's basically
1:45.6	about how our modern ideas of heaven up in the sky, in the clouds the angels with halos and this idea and our idea of hell
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