The Great Courses - Historical Jesus - Bart D. Ehrman, Ph.D., M.Div.
Unknown, Ph.D., Bart D. Ehrman, M.Div.
Category: Lecture
Tags: Lecture, History
Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins Release date: 07-08-13, Who was Jesus of Nazareth? What was he like? For more than 2,000 years, people and groups of varying convictions have pondered these questions and done their best to answer them. The significance of the subject is apparent. From the late Roman Empire all the way to our own time, no continuously existing institution or belief system has wielded as much influence as Christianity, no figure as much as Jesus., Worshiped around the globe by more than a billion people today, he is undoubtedly the single most important figure in the story of Western civilization and one of the most significant in world history altogether. A Wide Range of Opinion, Even among Scholars, Everyone who has even the faintest knowledge of Jesus has an opinion about him, says Professor Bart D. Ehrman, and these opinions vary widely., Those differences are visible not only among laypeople but even among professional scholars who have devoted their lives to the task of
