If Genesis 1 is an account of the creation of the world, why is the world recreated in Genesis 2?

Dr. Bart Ehrman joins me today to talk about whether these accounts can be understood as one single story, or if something else is going on.

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 to misquoting Jesus, everybody.

Today we are talking about the creation accounts found in Genesis 1 and 2.

We also have some listeners questions at the end,

so be sure to stick around for all of those.

Bart, how are you doing this week?

Yeah, I'm doing well, busy as always.

As happens, you know, something lands on your table.

You're like, ah.

And so I just have my page proofs for my new book on The Ethics of Jesus.

My page proofs, the first pass at the page proofs arrived.

And so I've got to go through that.

And you have to read through them carefully word by word, make sure there are no misspellings or mistakes or stupid things you say.

And so that's time consuming on top of other things.

But it's, you know, it's kind of fun to see that you know you

don't have to do the research anymore at least our page proofs essentially the the manuscript put like

laid out as it will be published yeah what happens is when you submit the manuscript then a copy editor

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