![]() ![]() Responsible readership should keep in mind that it can and should be a dynamic book for believers, informing their spirituality, but it also is a collection of first century documents created by a culture very different from our own. ![]() Instead it's a fairly level history of where the New Testament comes from, who controlled what was said and not said in it, and what social circumstances were surrounding its writings.Ehrman stresses several times that the Bible is a "very human" book - whether a reader would say it's also divinely inspired is up to him or her, but the historical situations of the Bible are undeniably important. Although Ehrman begins the book with a refutation of biblical inerrancy, the rhetoric set forward isn't actually academia versus religious fundamentalists (there's enough of that already). Jesus, Interrupted is a sort of biography of the Bible itself. ![]() ![]() The "hidden contradictions" as promised in the title are only a small part of what this book is about, and I am glad for that. ![]()
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