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 and welcome back to misquoting Jesus. The identification of Jesus as an

apocalyptic prophet is probably a familiar one to many people listening, but it's not one that's

commonly made in modern churches. So today we're going to talk

about this movement away from apocalypticism when it started, how visible it is in Christianity's

early record. And my final question to Bart, just a sneak preview for everyone listening,

is going to be if apocalyptic preachers, modern doomsday preachers, are actually closer to Jesus'

own original

message than the Christianity that we are more familiar with today. But before we get into that,

Bart, how are you doing this week? Yeah, I'm doing well. We're in the middle of the semester.

Papers are coming in, and there's a big deal on college campuses now about chatbots because when chatbot GPT came

out, everybody got really nervous about it.

And it turns out they're justified in being nervous about it because students, they

use it, some do.

And so we're trying to devise ways to defeat it so that students actually come up with their own ideas.

I had this kind of funny thing that happened a few weeks ago.

I was doing a webinar with a group of people, and a person wanted to say what the topic would

be, wanted to do a topic on whether in the ancient world there were any people who

pretended to be the apostles for one reason or another. So apostolic impostors. And I'd never thought of that. You know, and I thought, wow, really? Huh, that's interesting. So I thought about it and I, you know, and I gave this webinar where I talked about it. You're like, no, it doesn't seem likely. And I explained why and stuff. And so at the end of it, I asked the guy, I said, so why, where did you come up with this?

...