The first followers of Jesus were Jewish and followed Jewish law.

After Jesus' death, Gentiles started to convert to Christianity, along with additional Jewish members.

Did these new converts need to follow Jewish law and keep kosher?

Today, Dr. Bart Ehrman joins me to discuss Matthew's take on keeping kosher as a Christian.

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 everybody to misquoting

Jesus, where today we are discussing Matthew's take on keeping kosher. We've also got our bonus

segment listeners questions at the end,

where I ask Bart to tell us why Greek speaking, Greek-speaking authors of the New Testament cared if

Jesus prophecies, no, cared if Jesus fulfilled Jewish prophecies. I can't talk today, everyone. I'm sorry.

Hopefully it'll improve as we go along. But before all of that, how are you doing today?

I'm doing well.

I'm not sure I'm articulate either, but we have, we're recording this after you and I just

gotten back from holidays, and so we're kicking into the new year with these episodes

we're recording, and so it's all very exciting.

You pointed out that this is, what did you say, 170?

170, yep, episode 170.

Okay, good, okay.

We're still going.

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