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.

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The passion narrative is central to the message of Christianity and features heavily in the

Gospels, with Jesus even predicting and walking somewhat willingly to his own death.

But how far do these accounts reflect what Jesus may actually have said,

and how does scholars try and distinguish between the actual teachings of Jesus and words put

in his mouth by later authors? Before we get to that, though, Bart, hello, how are you doing this

week? Yeah, I'm doing well. I'm at a point now in my, I'm doing work on my next book,

which is going to be about Jesus

ethics and how Jesus ethics were different from what you could find more broadly in the

Greek and Roman worlds. I've been reading widely in Greek and Roman moral philosophy, but now I've

decided, okay, I need to get serious about this book instead of just reading stuff. Now I'm like

figuring out what I really

need to read and make notes on and you really start thinking about the book instead of just

a pleasure reading about moral philosophy. It's a good stage to be in for me. Right. How are you doing?

Yeah, okay. Everything's taking along really nicely actually. I don't have any research going on for myself at the moment, but I'm trying to plan out my next book project, which is going to involve a bunch of Acadian translations. So I'm starting just to write down the sources that I need to track down and remind myself exactly how Acadian works.

Is it going to be a book of translated text?

Is the book of your translations of text?

Yeah, so I want to try and do kind of like a fairy tale edition of some of the Sumerian

and Acadian mythologies because you get them retolds.

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