Welcome to Miss Quoting 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.

Today on misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman, we're going to be talking about forgeries.

Were the books of the New Testament written by Jesus' disciples?

What about the apocrypha? How do we even know who wrote what?

Before we get into that, though.

But how are you doing today?

Yes, I'm doing well.

I have this morning routine where I get up and first thing I do is I read Greek.

That's an excellent routine.

I've been doing this for years.

But lately I've been reading Homer, which is hard Greek for me. And so it's great. It's fantastic. So, yeah, I know. It's weird. But it's like the highlight of my day. It sounds like fun, though. Oh, it's great fun. I started doing it because when my kids were little, I had no time during the day as loud the whole time. But if I got up early in the morning,

like there was nothing, no noise. And so I could read languages. That's how I learned all my

languages. So how are you doing? I'm okay. I'm not reading Greek in the mornings, but I have

been enjoying some Homer recently. The other podcast I work on, we're doing the first season,

and it's looking at modern receptions and retellings of the Odyssey and the Iliad. It's been an

awful lot of fun. So while we haven't really been looking at the original, we've been looking

at what people have done with it. Oh, that's great, because there's been a lot lately. What's

the thing you're doing? It's called The Reading Party podcast, and I do it with a classicist friend of mine.

It's very different to this. We don't do an awful lot of historical academic stuff, but it's two academics reacting to modern retellings of ancient myth. It's great.

Oh, my God. Fantastic. Good. We need to talk more about that.

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