Bart and the Bible: What Made Bart Ehrman Change His View on Biblical Inerrancy?

Episode Outline:
0:00 Welcome to Misquoting Jesus and what this podcast is about
1:13 Megan Lewis introduces herself and her background in Assyriology
1:59 Bart Ehrman introduces himself and his work
3:18 How learning about New Testament manuscripts affected Bart as a young believer
5:31 Why learning Greek changed everything
7:17 How far removed our New Testament is from the original manuscripts
10:24 Why textual variants still matter in modern Bibles
12:26 The woman taken in adultery and other famous passages that were likely added later
14:21 Why manuscript problems mattered for inerrancy
16:23 The Abiathar problem: when Bart first confronted a real contradiction
19:20 Why apologetic harmonization can become implausible
22:21 Why these issues did not make Bart leave Christianity immediately
23:18 John Mill, 30,000 variants, and the birth of modern textual criticism
38:23 Why finding the “original text” still matters
43:28 Why the book was called Misquoting Jesus
48:01 Bart and Megan reflect on scholarship, faith, and why truth still matters

Episode Description

In this introductory episode, Professor Bart Ehrman discusses the roots of his academic career and some of the issues and contradictions in the New Testament with co-host Megan Lewis: the subtleties of inerrancy, the nuances of translation, scribal changes to New Testament manuscripts, the paradox of evangelical scholars.

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