If you have a passing familiarity with the Christian Bible, then you probably know that it's split into two parts, the Old and New Testaments.

The New Testament is the part with all the stuff about Jesus, while the Old Testament is drawn largely from Jewish religious scriptures.

Today, Dr. Bart Ehrman is joining me to talk about why early Christians insisted on keeping the Old Testament, despite not being Jewish.

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.

Hello, everyone. Welcome back to misquoting Jesus, but how are you doing today?

Well, you know, as we record this now, this is my, this is the last week of the semester.

And so things are a little crazy on the university scene right now for all sorts of reasons,

but one is the kind of the regular reason that, yeah. So, getting to the end, you got final exams, got, you know, all the grading.

And so, yeah, this is the time that you, this is kind of one of those times,

you just, you know, you'll be glad when it's over.

You just keep going and at some point it stops.

It stops, yeah.

And, you know, I'm 69 and I still organize my life by semesters.

So it's like, here we go, every year.

So how are you doing?

Yes, good.

Similarly, just trying to keep my head above water, work and children and all the things.

But good.

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