Bart Ehrman Lecture: Jesus Interrupted

[bec_87rb]

Spent October 17th in a set of lectures on the history of the New Testament, as offered by Bart Ehrman via the Smithsonian. He's a prof at UNC Chapel Hill, and boy can he talk. He held my attention for nearly 3/4 of the day, leaving only the last lecture for me to squirm and snooze through.

The Smithsonian's S. Dillon Ripley Center looks like a

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lovers of sausage

[suegypt]

no one agrees on criteria

One of the things I most love and hate about being human.

So... ya mean Lyndon didn't do a Romeo on his dawg?

Re: lovers of sausage

[bec_87rb]

I have no personal knowledge of President Johnson and any dawg romances he might or might not have had. :)

I was just noticing that the more you understand about how different types of scholarship are performed, the less blanket your trust is in it? I had no idea of what biblical scholarship consisted, so I was quite taken aback. I oughtn't to have been, ought I, given my previous experiences?

I remember reading articles on paleontology in Science and it becoming clear that most of it is not science, per se, because it relies on samples where n=1 or something ridiculous like that, and that objects are often dated by the soils in which they lie, not the objects themselves. I was imagining that any time a paleontologist quoted some bones as being x thousand years old, they had sawed off a slice and tested the item - oh no, very often dating is done by testing the soil only, as if the bones had lain undisturbed in that exact strata since the animal had expired. I remember just kind of staring bug-eyed at the page as this sank in.