History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon (Transcript)

By Bart D. Ehrman

History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon is the companion book to the audio/video series of the same name. It contains a full transcript of the series as well as the complete course guidebook which includes lecture notes, bibliography, and more.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: The Great Courses
• Release date: Oct 3, 2005
• ISBN: 9781598030723

Bart D. Ehrman

Bart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity and a distinguished professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author of six New York Times bestsellers, he has written or edited more than thirty books, including Misquoting Jesus, How Jesus Became God, The Triumph of Christianity, and Heaven and Hell. Ehrman has also created nine popular audio and video courses for The Great Courses. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages, with over two million copies and courses sold.

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Reviews for History of the Bible

[datrappert · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is a short (only 12 half-hour lectures) overview of the New Testament and how it came together as a canon. If you have read and listened to Ehrman before (and I have read and listened a LOT), there is little here that is new, but Ehrman tells the story well and even with a bit of humor, mostly about the misconceptions of his students who, like most Christians (and people in general) have no idea of how the books of the New Testament originated, how early Christians viewed and used them, and how they were eventually collected together. This is a great overview course before digging in deeper. While listening to this, I was reading John Barton's History of the Bible, and despite Ehrman being a non-believer and Barton being an Anglican priest, there is little serious disagreement.