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 everybody and welcome back to misquoting Jesus. Today we are revisiting Paul, who is one of the

most well-known people in Christian history. His writings are a fundamental part of the

canonical New Testament and have been used to shape Christian thought, theology, and religious practice for years.

However, the first few years of Christianity, he was actively opposed to this upstart Jewish sect, going so far as to persecute Christians and describing himself as being zealous in this persecution.

Before we get to Paul and his persecution, though, we are going to have a quick chat.

But I never ask this, and I really should.

How is Sarah?

What is she up to currently?

Well, for those who don't know, my wife, Sarah is also an academic.

She's a Shakespeare scholar.

So in my household, we have the Bible and Shakespeare pretty well covered.

She's been working for a long time on her fourth book, which is on Shakespearean tragedy.

It's a very, very complicated book. She and I are both scholars, but we're very different kinds of

scholars, which is good, because otherwise we'd probably be at each other's throats, but we're just

completely different.

I'm more of the kind of hard academic, learning the languages, kind of scholar, and, you know,

kind of plowing along.

And she's like this, she's more like a European intellectual type of scholar who reads everything and knows like philosophy and literary theory and is just walking

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