For those who don't know, Ehrman is something of a celebrity sceptic in the United States. The opening salvo this year comes courtesy of the indefatigable Bart Ehrman. Such tirades by the evangelists of scepticism seem almost to constitute a pastoral responsibility on their part annually to reinforce the ideological conceits of their tribe of followers, thus providing atheists, agnostics and 'nones' with reassurance that they needn't take Jesus too seriously. To find more information regarding shipping and returns, please click HERE.Easter is now upon us, and we await the predictable onslaught of naysayers who declaim with an almost evangelical fervour that the Jesus story is one big lie.

Anybody with an interest in the Bible or the life and teachings of Jesus Christ would be wise to examine these texts through the critical lens developed by Ehrman – they might just draw some new conclusions.

Though these arguments are not his alone, Ehrman places each of them within the viewpoints of scholars across a wide spectrum of denominations and traditions, and then attempts to discover why these 'truths' have been so effectively buried by the power structures inherent in traditional religious organizations. The New Testament contains books that were forged in the names of the apostles by Christian writers who didn't actually live until decades after Jesus' death

The authors of the New Testament have very divergent views about who Jesus was and what the nature of salvation is. Established Christian doctrines-such as the suffering messiah, the divinity of Jesus, and the trinity-were the inventions of later theologians Jesus, Paul, Matthew, and John all appear to represent fundamentally different religions With a number of claims sure to outrage and engage, Ehrman's arguments include, among several others, the following: Jesus, Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches-and it's not what most people think.

In the book Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them), a New York Times Bestseller, Bart Ehrman picks up where his first book, the New York Times bestselling Misquoting Jesus, left off.

Jesus, Interrupted by Bart D. Ehrman