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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Hello everyone, welcome back to misquoting Jesus.

Today we're talking about where is Jesus in Genesis?

If you listen to some evangelical preachers, you get the very definite impression

that Jesus is just walking all over the pages of the Old Testament, but is he actually present at all? Is this belief that Jesus is in the Old Testament original to modern Christianity? And how do academics deal with evidence provided by believers? Before that, Bart, good morning. How are you doing today? Good morning. Yep, doing pretty well. It's nice being on sabbatical leave for the semester.

It's a beautiful thing. Are you able to do any traveling while you're on leave or are you just solidly writing?

Most of the time I'm riding. I'm going to be doing some trips. Yeah, I've got a lot of travel lined up for the summer and so I'm hoping that I'll

be done with the book by then.

One of the trips I'm doing is I think it's pretty interesting.

I'm going to be doing this cruise that's sponsored by a group called Thalasa Journeys, which

is a, it tends to have educational trips and so they have an expert giving lectures on things.

And we're going to do, we're doing this cruise down the west coast of Europe, going to western cities of Europe. And last summer, I happened to go to Bruges, and we're going to Bruges. So we're going to start Amsterdam, then go to Bruges, and you go all the way down and end up in Lisbon, but on this, like, ecologically really cool boat. You know, when I do travel, I really like traveling in lots of places. I go to lots of places, but Western Europe is one of the places I really like a lot. And if people, I should say, if people are interested in that thing, I don't think you knew I was going to talk about the cruise area when you raised that question, but now that you mentioned it, if they're interested, just look up follow us of journeys and give them a call and see if they can join up.

So how about you? Are you, do you got travel plans?

I have a couple. Josh and I will be going down to Austin. We've been invited to do a presentation or workshop on digital media for the Middle Eastern Studies Department at University of Texas at Austin.

So I haven't actually been to Texas before.

Oh, well, when you go to Austin, it's not exactly like Texas.

I've also heard that.

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