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.

Today on misquoting Jesus, we're talking about the Gospel of Matthew.

Who was it written by? What's the overriding theme of the book?

And how does it portray Jesus?

But before we get to that Bart High, how is your new semester going? Yeah, well, okay, so it's back in

the saddle. It was off last semester. And of course, you know, research scholar isn't really kind of

ever off. It's just like you're doing other things now. But, you know, it's a different set of

things. And both are important. But I, you know, the thing is, I love the classroom. I love teaching undergraduate students and my, you know, it's a different set of things. And both are important. But, you know, the thing is, I love the classroom.

I love teaching undergraduate students.

And my students at Chapel Hill are smart people, and they're interested and interesting.

And they're kind of a self-selecting group because people who wouldn't like the kinds of things I do don't take my classes.

Yeah. And so, yeah, so it's great. It's a different kind of great. For me, teaching is actually the perk of the job because you have so many other things you've got to do. But actually, undergraduate teaching, that's great. So, yeah, it's going well. I want to ask, actually, just on a personal note, what's your favorite class that you've ever taught?

Well, it's really hard to say. It's kind of like my children. I love every one of them.

But the class I'm doing now, I'm kind of fond of the class on Jesus in scholarship and film, where the students have to, you know, we study ancient

gospels and to see what they what they say about Jesus.

And then we watch film to see, well, what playwrights say about Jesus.

So it's a lot of fun.

And one of the fun things about this class is that the Jesus movies that I really like

from back in the day, my students have never heard of, like Jesus Christ Superstar is, oh, it's such a fantastic book, and its music is in my bones, and they've never heard of it. And so, like, they love it because it's such a period piece. Oh, that's wonderful. Yeah, so you're not in the classroom. So what is new for you at this point?

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