What is the King James Version?
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
Chris Huntley
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
What's wrong with the King James Version? Anything? Why don't we *all* use it? The KJV is the best known and arguably most elegant, aesthetically pleasing, and significant piece of English literature ever. But there are problems with it for anyone wanting to know what the biblical authors actually said. Some of the problems are today rather amusing, many are serious, and all are worth knowing about.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. |
| 0:06.7 | The only show, where a six-time New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned Bible scholar, |
| 0:12.8 | uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin. |
| 0:25.3 | But how are you doing this week? Yeah, I'm not doing too bad. I was on leave last semester, |
| 0:32.0 | and one would think that that would allow one plenty of time to do everything one wants. |
| 0:38.4 | Most people think that, you know, you're an academic, right? |
| 0:40.9 | You get the summers off, you get these sabbaticals. |
| 0:43.1 | I'm like, it's like, no. |
| 0:44.7 | And so now I'm going back into the classroom, so I'm getting ready for classes, basically, |
| 0:50.4 | which is great. |
| 0:51.8 | I love undergraduate teaching, but it's going to be a bit of a shock to the system |
| 0:56.2 | trying to do everything I was already doing. |
| 0:58.0 | Plus, now my day job. |
| 1:00.4 | But I love the undergraduates, and I love the teaching. |
| 1:04.3 | And so for me, teaching undergraduates is really one of the perks for the job. |
| 1:09.6 | And weirdly. |
| 1:10.5 | So how are you? Have you survived the Christmas season? Yeah, the job. And weirdly. So how are you? |
| 1:11.1 | Have you survived in the Christmas season? |
| 1:13.5 | Yeah, I did. |
| 1:14.6 | I did. |
| 1:15.0 | We're all good. |
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