The Ten Commandments are the most famous laws in the Bible, despite the fact that most people can't name more than a few of them.

Today, I'm joined by Dr. Bart Erman to discuss why the Ten Commandments are so famous, and why Christians still see them as important,

even though most of the other 600 Old Testament laws are ignored.

Welcome to Miss Christmast. the other 600 Old Testament laws are ignored.

Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. The only show, where a six-time New York Times best-selling 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. Today we're talking about the Ten Commandments and their place in modern Christianity.

We've also got our bonus

segment, Outsmart Bart, right at the end, where I test the limits of Bart's knowledge

with specially submitted listeners questions. So please make sure you stick around for that. Before

all of that though, Bart, how are you today?

Well, as we are recording this, it's the day my book has been released on Love Thy

Stranger.

And so that was a slow train coming.

And so it has arrived at the station.

And so I'm very pleased.

And sorry, I've been doing book events already and going to be doing that for a while.

And all good. Yeah. So yeah, life's looking good from that

perspective. How about you? How are you doing? Oh, thanks.

Good, thank you. Everyone's kind of ticking along. I finished my archaeology class,

which is great, and I just signed up to teach some more stuff for the next semester after the summer.

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