WMA file of radio interview with Bart Ehrman, regarding subject matter of his book Lost Christianities.

Interesting stuff. I've read his book Misquoting Jesus, must read more sometime.

Oh well, it could be worse. At least I never had a ghastly TV miniseries made out of my cherished works of fiction. Anyone who's ever read the Earthsea books would surely have to notice that that vacant-looking white kid is nothing like the character Ged as described in the books. Ged is a brown person, dumbfucks. OMG can't have too many of teh ( Read more... )

I've been reading this awesome book by Bart Ehrman called Misquoting Jesus. Among other related thigns, it details how ancient scribes often changed wordings in places to make early Christian manuscripts agree more with their own personal beliefs. In other words, many of the things the current incarnation of the religion accepts as the true and ( Read more... )

I have been trying to remember the name of this book and author.I started reading it five years ago or more but never got round to finishing it because I had other stuff going on. For some reason I'd been thinking about it this past week or two because I want to finish it, and all I could remember was that it was some book by a guy who'd been in a ( Read more... )

Carol Berg's webpage. My current favourite author. Anyone who writes decent character-driven fantasy in first person with multiple narrators has my vote. ^_ ( Read more... )