Friends, Fans, and Others,
I am heading outta here for a few days, taking my 85-year-old mom trout fishing! We will be in a remote part of the Missouri Ozarks, where there is no Internet connection. I have prepared a couple of posts for when I’m away, which my trusty website and technology support, Steven Ray, will put up on the blog while I’m gone. But I will not be able to respond to comments, until I get back at the end of the week. Just so you know: I’m not meaning to ignore you!
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This is unrelated to this post, but in his NY times book review called “Breaking Faith,” Ross Douthat notes:
“The plunge into heresy, Douthat believes, can be traced to theological developments like the revisionist Jesus Seminar and the unlikely trinity of Elaine Pagels, Bart Ehrman and Dan Brown. Douthat accuses them of discrediting Christian orthodoxy in the interests of remaking Jesus in their own image, often for political ends.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/books/review/bad-religion-by-ross-douthat.html?pagewanted=all
How would you respond to this claim about your motives/goals?
Yes, it’s an odd trinity (me, Elaine, and Dan Brown?!?). If he thinks I’ve remade Jesus in my own image, he hasn’t read by books!!
For a good fishing story read online “Treasured Memories from a Yard Sale” by Jason Hawkins. It appeared in the
Durham Herald-Sun on 6/26/12.
Hey Bart, I know you studied under Bruce Metzger and my question is how did he feel about your skepticism toward the trustworthiness of the N.T?
I am going to devote a whole series of posts to my relationship with Bruce Metzger. Mainly because it will be fun for me to go down memory lane a bit, and hopefully in so doing I can touch on a whole lot of interesting topics of relevance to the blog. Thanks for the suggestion.