New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a superstar author of 30 books on Christianity. He is known to his legion of readers as a scholar who has spent his academic career debunking long-held assumptions of traditional Christian belief.
His most recent book continues that trajectory. â??Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed and Invented Their Stories of the Saviorâ? applies contemporary memory science to the oral traditions of the early Christians. He sat down for an interview with RNS. The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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