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Despite being written by an apostate, it is not entirely worthless. Here is why it is annoying, though: Ehrman starts explaining concepts which NT studies have known for 30 years, yet he is acting like he just discovered them and that they are really dangerous to Christianity (they aren't). Further, he really does believe, or so how he writes, that anyone who disagrees with him is a total moron who thinks the Left Behind novels are real (he comes very close to saying that). While Ehrman is correct to note the apocalyptic context, he seems adamant that the phrase "end of the world" means "end of the space time continuum." He is not familiar, being a modernist, with the echoes to OT texts that speak of judgment on Jerusalem. He continues to cling to out-dated modernist scholarship Despite all of that, it is an easy read and he does touch upon the basics which we've already known (but bless his heart, he probably does think he discovered them).

2023-07-17 10:11