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.

I'd like to welcome you to this special edition of the Misquoting Jesus podcast.

This week, I'm doing the interviewing instead of being the interviewed, and I'm very happy

to be interviewing Jill Hick's Keaton.

I've known Jill for a number of years because she did her Ph.D. at Duke University.

It actually maybe had a class with me once.

But she graduated from Duke, and she got a position at the University of Oklahoma, where she taught

for a number of years, and now I've just recently moved to the University of Southern California.

Jill is an accomplished author and becoming a bit of a public figure in the study of the New Testament

and early Christianity.

Her first book was called Arguing with Asineth, Gentile access to Israel's

living God in Jewish antiquity. Many of you won't know, but there's a very important non-canonical

writing called Joseph and Asinath. And that's what this book is about, published with Oxford in 2018.

And she co-authored a book called Does Scripture Speak for Itself? And that's what this book is about, published with Oxford in 2018.

And she co-authored a book called Does Scripture Speak for itself,

The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation?

That book came out in 2022.

So that's a recent book. But it deals with the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., and provides a critical

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