The question of how much of the Bible is historically accurate and how much is myth or legend

is both interesting and important to a lot of people, believer and atheist alike.

Some insist it's accurate down to the last detail, while others label it as fairy tales from

beginning to end. Today, I'll be talking to Dr. Bart Ehrman about how scholars distinguish history

from myth within the Gospels of the New Testament, why it's talking to Dr. Bart Ehrman about how scholars distinguish history from myth within

the Gospels of the New Testament, why it's important to do so, and exactly what a myth is anyway.

Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. The only show, where a six-time New York Times best-selling 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.

Good morning, Bart. How are you today?

Yes, I'm doing well. So we're recording this on January 1st. I had a reasonably sober evening,

and so I'm doing pretty well this morning. How about you? How are you doing?

Similarly, and similarly sober, I was lamenting about the fact that we're very boring people in this household.

We eat, well, neither Joshner, I drink an awful lot, and we go to bed early because, well, everyone will know we have many small children and they wake up so early in the morning.

The deal is, it doesn't matter if you're boring to other people.

The matter is whether you're happy and content. That is true. And I will say we are both things. Yeah. So, you know, there you go. I mean, the Greek philosopher said, that's the whole point. Eudymonia, be well contended with your life. That's the key. Perfect. Well, Josh spent a lot of the evening building a fort in our living room for the children. So I was cooking, which is rare. Normally

he does the cooking. I was cooking. He built a fort. We all sat down and watched a movie. Children ran right. It was a really lovely evening, actually. That sounds great. Yeah, it was good. And I know we're a little bit late, given that this is airing a couple of weeks after, but happy belated New Year to everyone. And we are going to be talking today, as I said, about how to distinguish

myth from history in the Gospels. Before we get to that, I have a couple of reminders. Our bonus

segment today is listeners questions. We're trying to get through as many of those as we can.

We are also going

to be talking briefly about the course that is coming up taught by Hugo Mendez. This will be your

last chance to join it live, which is an introduction to the New Testament. And Hugo, you and he

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