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.

Hello, Bart. How are you doing today?

So far so good.

Ready to talk about apocalypticism?

I'm always ready to talk about it. It's one of my favorite topics.

How are you doing? Okay, yep, busy. I've got some projects I'm trying to wrap up before Christmas hits us and it's all insane again.

Okay.

What projects?

My husband and I, we wrote an introduction to Sumerian grammar for people who are interested but aren't ready to tackle

a reference grammar. Because you can get on Amazon, like, teach yourself coinly Greek, teach

yourself biblical Hebrew, teach yourself Acadian, but there's nothing in the same line for Sumerian.

So if you want to learn Sumerian, you're kind of reliant on Wikipedia and academic reference

grammars, which are really intimidating. So we wrote a couple of years ago now an introduction

for absolute complete beginners. And he's just finished up the main body of book two, which is

more of an intermediate going into a little bit more of the nuances, really.

So I'm going through that, editing it and putting all the exercises together, because I want

to try and get it out before Christmas, but I don't know if we're going to make that happen.

So for those of us who are lesser mortals, I assume Sumerian is the language of ancient Sumer.

It is.

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