num_pages: 304
description: Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus left off Jesus Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches&amp; it's not what most people think. Here Ehrman reveals what scholars have unearthed:The authors of the New Testament have diverging views about who Jesus was &amp; how salvation worksThe New Testament contains books that were forged in the names of the apostles by Christian writers who lived decades laterJesus Paul Matthew &amp; John all represented fundamentally different religionsEstablished Christian doctrinessuch as the suffering messiah the divinity of Jesus &amp; the trinitywere the inventions of still later theologiansThese aren't idiosyncratic perspectives of just one scholar. They've been the standard widespread views of scholars across a full spectrum of denominations &amp; traditions. Why is it most people have never heard such things? This is the book that pastors educators &amp; anyone interested in the Bible have been waiting fora compelling account of the central challenges faced when attempting to reconstruct Jesus' life &amp; message.
language: English
title: Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
publisher: HarperCollins (NY)