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.

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begin. Hello, everybody, and welcome back to misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. Except today,

I am not joined by Bart, but by his colleague, Dr. Mark Goodacre. Mark, thank you so much for

joining you today. Absolutely pleasure. Thanks for having

me. Of course. I have a little introduction just said that everyone knows who you are and what we're

going to be talking about. So for those who are unfamiliar with Mark, he is Professor of Religious

Studies at Duke University, North Carolina. He earned his MA, M-Phil and D-Phil from the University of Oxford, and his research interests

include the Gospels, the Apocryphal New Testament, and the Historical Jesus. Mark is also the author

of four books, including the case against Q, studies in Mark and Priority and the Synoptic

Problem, and Thomas in the Gospels, the case for Thomas's

familiarity with the synoptics. He's well known for creating web resources on New Testament and

Christian origins, including his own podcast, The MT Pod. Mark has also acted as consultant for

several TV and radio programs, including The Passion, which was a BBC HBO production, and

finding Jesus for CNN. Mark is currently working on a book on John's knowledge of the synoptic

gospels, and it is the synoptic gospels we're going to be talking about today. But before we get

kind of into the real meets of the episode, I did want to ask how you got into the field of

biblical studies. I think like to ask how you got into the field of biblical studies.

I think, like a lot of people by accident, get to be academics. You kind of stumble into it.

I was that classic person who I was going to go into the church. And so I was doing a degree in

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