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. Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman.

The podcast, as you've probably noticed, has been going for a whole year now. And in that time,

we've made some changes and improved on some things, but it's still recognizable as the same podcast. Is this also true for Christianity? What did that look like

a year after Jesus' death? Had it progressed away from the apocalyptic Jewish sect it was

when Jesus died, or was it much the same? Can it even be called Christianity? But before we get

into all of that, but hello, how are you doing today?

Yeah, no, I'm doing well. The semester is rolling along. Students have, you know, gone through midterms and that kind of thing. At the beginning of the year, I always tell my students, look, don't wait to the midterm to start studying. You might be able to cram and do okay, but you start studying from day one. And I tell them, you know, look, when I give a lecture, go home and review your notes that night and then look at them again the next day. And some of them take it to heart, and most don't. But the ones who take it to heart get the really good grades because by the end of the semester, they've been studying the entire semester instead of like a couple times. So we're kind of at that point and now they're looking ahead and realizing, yeah, there's a lot of material in this class. I better get back on it. So yeah, so that's all good. We've had similar conversations with our 16-year-old. She's a

junior in high school now. And generally very much on top of schoolwork, but does have the tendency

that I think a lot of teenagers have to leave things until the night before they're due. So we've

had a couple of conversations off. If you do it when it's assigned or a couple of days beforehand, then you'll be a lot more relaxed and be able to spend the time that it needs

rather than rushing horribly at the last minute.

It certainly helps the anxiety levels and the stress levels.

But it also, I mean, in some ways it saves you time because you don't, you know, it went there

at the end.

You're not spending hours and hours trying to cram stuff in your head because you already know it. You retain it. That's the thing. You retain it when you do it that way. Good. Okay, well, apart from the 16-year-old, I hope things are okay on your end. Yeah, no, all good. Very much looking forward to Halloween. We have a nice little neighbourhood so all the kids come out and do trick-or-treating.

Our youngest three especially are quite excited about that. We have a nice little neighborhood, so all the kids come out and do trick-or-treating.

Our youngest three especially are quite excited about that whole process.

Yes, I know.

Oh, God.

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