If I start talking about the law, many of you are going to have certain ideas pop into your heads,

a police force, trials, prison, but what if I'm talking about the law in a religious sense?

Maybe you'd think of the Ten Commandments, failing women or practices of abstinence.

Today, Dr. Bart Ehrman talks about the Jewish law as presented in the New Testament, exploring

whether it's possible to even keep it and what agenda the New Testament authors had when

they were writing about it.

Welcome to misquoting 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.

So as I just said, today we're going to be talking about whether it's possible to keep the Jewish law and what New Testament authors tell us about it.

Our bonus segment, so please stay tuned for that, is going to be Outsmart Bart, where an audience member tries to test the limits of Bart's biblical knowledge.

We're also going to have more information on Hugo Mendez's introduction to the New Testament course.

He's taught a couple of really great classes so far, including the New Testament history and faith,

and from scrolls to scripture, how the New Testament was handed down.

His next lecture for those who are interested is tomorrow, and he's going to be looking at the Gospel of Mark as an historical document.

So we'll have a bit more information about that coming up.

Before we get to all that, though, but hello, how are you doing today?

Yep, I'm doing absolutely okay.

We got nailed with a winter storm this last weekend, but we got through it fine.

So it's absolutely fine. The problem in my part of the world is that we don't mind snow, but ice is a bad deal around here.

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