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    Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
    Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
    Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
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    Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium

    Written by Bart D. Ehrman

    Narrated by Tom Parks

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    In this highly accessible discussion, Bart Ehrman examines the most recent textual and archaeological sources for the life of Jesus, along with the history of first-century Palestine, drawing a fascinating portrait of the man and his teachings.

    Ehrman shows us what historians have long known about the Gospels and the man who stands behind them. Through a careful evaluation of the New Testament (and other surviving sources, including the more recently discovered Gospels of Thomas and Peter), Ehrman proposes that Jesus can be best understood as an apocalyptic prophet-a man convinced that the world would end dramatically within the lifetime of his apostles and that a new kingdom would be created on earth. According to Ehrman, Jesus's belief in a coming apocalypse and his expectation of an utter reversal in the world's social organization not only underscores the radicalism of his teachings but also sheds light on both the appeal of his message to society's outcasts and the threat he posed to Jerusalem's established leadership.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 8, 2019
    ISBN9781515948063
    Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
    Author

    Bart D. Ehrman

    Bart D. Ehrman is one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today. He is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is the author of more than twenty books, including the New York Times bestsellers How Jesus Became God; Misquoting Jesus; God’s Problem; Jesus, Interrupted; and Forged. He has appeared on Dateline NBC, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CNN, History, and top NPR programs, as well as been featured in TIME, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and other publications. He lives in Durham, North Carolina. Visit the author online at www.bartdehrman.com.

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    • 5/5
      Like many of Bart Ehrman’s books, this work serves as a great introduction into the theory of Jesus as an itinerant, apocalyptic preacher whose mission, like that of other apocalypticists such as John the Baptist, was to “make straight the crooked paths” and declare “the Day of the LORD” which it is evident Jesus believed was well nigh. This interpretive lens has great explanatory power as it illumines many of the obscure sayings of Jesus while also situating his ministry in a proper historical context. Excellent treatment and highly recommend.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Excellent book, if you've listened to other works of Ehrman however you may want to skip forward to where he actually talks on the subject at hand, the first part of the book is the same rehash of his historical method that is in almost every other book he writes. Once he actually gets to the evidence for Jesus being an apocalyptic prophet, he makes a very strong case.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Quite the compelling conclusion. Ehrman has a way of extracting the myth and magic out of Jesus and placing him in a historical, human context.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Another fantastic book from this author. Once I read something from this guy it’s almost impossible to put it down!!!
    • 4/5
      One of Ehrman's earlier books and surprisingly one of the better introductory ones. Themes he will return to in later books are all found here, complete with a logical step by step introduction to the historical analysis tools he will return to over and over in later books and perhaps not explain as well.

      He lays out the case for the (a) historical interpretation of Jesus as an apocalyptic prophet among a tradition of such thinkers in judaism with good references from the Bible itself as well as secular and jewish sources, and does so in a compelling fashion.

      The thorough, pyramid-like construction of this book is perhaps due to all this being Ehrman's wheelhouse as a scholar, with very little in the way of new ideas - as he states himself in the introduction. Rather it's just a solidly presented book of a standard view.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Bart Ehrman's Jesus is deeply Jewish and deeply apocalyptic, two attributes that modern Christians tend to disregard if not deny. Ehrman lays out his thesis that Jesus' entire ministry was just preparing for the end (which would happen in the lifetime of his apostles). Everyone needed to be ready for the "destruction and salvation" of the imminent Judgment Day. His ideas of social justice and political reform are secondary, reflecting the power structure of the Kingdom, but why get too embroiled in earthly struggles when the present earth will soon be destroyed?This is not your mama's Jesus. Clearly. Ehrman's historical biography of Jesus makes him a fascinating but unfamiliar figure, not terribly connected to present day Christianity. Not that he has to - Ehrman himself is agnostic because of his biblical scholarship, actually - but at times I felt like Christ was over time made irrelevant to Christianity. Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet re-connects its readers to Jesus, but does not attempt to re-connect Jesus to his relevance in the church today. Excellent book anyway, that will absolutely affect the way people read the Gospels from now on

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I can forgive biblical scholars for writing impenetrable prose. They have to know about 8000 languages. They study the most studied book of all time, and the temptation to split hairs must be overwhelming. On the other hand, biblical scholars write about *the bible*, so they've got an enormous in-built audience that other humanities people can only dream of. So maybe they should actually take advantage of that?
      Well, Ehrman does. Kudos to him; he writes clearly and says exactly what he thinks. What he thinks, along with a whole bunch of other people whom he's happy to praise, is that Jesus was a Jewish prophet who thought the end of the world was really, really nigh; that his ethical preaching and his actions were all geared towards this thought, and that most Christian theology, and much of the new testament, has very little to do with the man Jesus who wandered around a couple thousand years ago. It seems pretty plausible, and he's very clear that this is a history book, and not a theology book.
      Two problems: first, this is the sort of thing that you might read and then say to yourself, well, you know what? Hell with the Christian tradition then. A more productive angle for a conclusion or something might have been to suggest that since the 'identity' or 'biography' of Jesus never had squat to do with Christianity, people could more productively spend their time thinking about living good lives (and, if you're Christian, therefore deserving God's forgiveness), rather than being New Atheists or Creationists and thinking all the time about other peoples' genitals.

      Also, it gets really repetitive over the last few chapters. A bit too much padding over all.

      1 person found this helpful