文档介绍：Jesus,
Interrupted
Revealing the
Hidden Contradictions in the Bible
(and Why We Don’t Know About Them)
Bart D. Ehrman
To Aiya, granddaughter extraordinaire
Contents
Preface v
one A Historical Assault on Faith 1
two A World of Contradictions 19
three A Mass of Variant Views 61
four Who Wrote the Bible? 101
five Liar, Lunatic, or Lord? Finding the Historical Jesus 139
six How We Got the Bible 181
seven Who Invented Christian ity? 225
eight Is Faith Possible? 269
Notes 285
About the Author
Other Books by Bart D. Ehrman
Credits
Cover
Copyright
About the Publisher
Preface
arrived at Princeton Theological Seminary in August 1978, fresh
Iout of college and recently married. I had a well-thumbed Greek
New Testament, a passion for knowledge, and not much else. I had
not always been passionate about learning. No one who knew me fi ve
or six years earlier would ever have predicted that I’d be headed for a
career in academia. But I had been bitten by the academic bug some-
where along the way in college. I suppose it was fi rst at the Moody
Bible Institute, in Chicago, a fundamentalist Bible college I started
attending at the ripe young age of seventeen. There my academic
drive was fueled not by intellectual curiosity so much as by a reli-
gious desire for certainty.
Studying at Moody was an intense experience for me. I had gone
there because I had had a “born-again” experience in high school
and decided that to be a “serious” Christian I would need serious
training in the Bible. And somehow, during my first semester in
college, something happened to me: I became passionate—fi erce,
even—in my quest for knowledge about the Bible. At Moody not
only did I take every Bible and theology course that I could, but on
my own I also memorized entire books of the Bible by rote. I studied
during every free moment. I read books and mastered lecture notes.
Just about every week I pulled an all-nig