Did Jesus Exist?, Bart D. Ehrman
Did Jesus Exist?, Bart D. Ehrman
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Did Jesus Exist?
The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth

Author: Bart D. Ehrman

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Unabridged: 11 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperOne

Published: 07/10/2012

Synopsis

In Did Jesus Exist? historian and Bible expert Bart Ehrman confronts the question, "Did Jesus exist at all?" Ehrman vigorously defends the historical Jesus, identifies the most historically reliable sources for best understanding Jesus’ mission and message, and offers a compelling portrait of the person at the heart of the Christian tradition.Known as a master explainer with deep knowledge of the field, Bart Ehrman methodically demolishes both the scholarly and popular “mythicist” arguments against the existence of Jesus. Marshaling evidence from within the Bible and the wider historical record of the ancient world, Ehrman tackles the key issues that surround the mythologies associated with Jesus and the early Christian movement.In Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth, Ehrman establishes the criterion for any genuine historical investigation and provides a robust defense of the methods required to discover the Jesus of history.

About Bart D. Ehrman

Bart D. Ehrman is one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today. He is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is the author of more than twenty books, including the New York Times bestsellers How Jesus Became God; Misquoting Jesus; God’s Problem; Jesus, Interrupted; and Forged. He has appeared on Dateline NBC, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CNN, History, and top NPR programs, as well as been featured in TIME, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and other publications. He lives in Durham, North Carolina. Visit the author online at www.bartdehrman.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on May 07, 2024

Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater. My opinion had always been that you don't have to believe Jesus was the Son of God to believe he was a real historical figure who lived and died. One of these things does not have to equal the other. I wasn't sure who was even asking this question,......more

Goodreads review by Ian on December 09, 2018

Some parts were quite good and helpful. Other parts were quite bad and harmful. Like "virtually every expert on the planet" Bart Ehrman believes Jesus existed, arguing from the fact that we have 7 independent Gospel sources (referring to "Q" and other source material for the Gospels) plus at least 1......more

Goodreads review by Lee on April 01, 2012

Not too long ago, I was asked in a religious forum whether I believe Jesus really existed. I said yes, I'm 99% sure. I meant precisely that: I'm a numbers guy, and I estimate the odds that Jesus never existed to be somewhere around one chance in a hundred. After presenting a parallel (a Bible histor......more

Goodreads review by Adam on December 31, 2015

Bart did a rather bad job of establishing a historical Jesus. Some of the arguments he rallied were sound, but they were not conclusive. He also brought into the fray some horrible, horrible logic and reasoning. He also misrepresented the so called "mythicists". The book did contain some interesting......more

Goodreads review by Tanja on October 24, 2021

Spoiler alert: all the evidence clearly points to Jesus actually having existed. Not that he was anything like we imagine, since he’s been reinvented for the 21st century, but nonetheless, there was a man Jesus crucified two millennia ago.......more

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