#92 Bart Ehrman - The Dark Side of Christmas

Within Reason

Alex O'Connor

Religion, Morality, Ethics, Society & Culture, Cosmicskeptic, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Bart Ehrman is a New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. Get Bart Ehrman's new course, The Dark Side of Christmas (affiliate link).

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0:00.0	This is a million subscribers to your what, your YouTube?
0:03.5	YouTube, that's right.
0:04.8	That's amazing.
0:06.5	Wow.
0:07.4	Okay.
0:07.7	Yeah, not many people who make a living out of talking about the Bible most of the time
0:12.1	managed to get a million subscribers unless, of course, they're Christian evangelists.
0:16.1	Yeah, well, as you are.
0:20.0	So I keep getting told.
0:23.2	Dr.
0:23.7	Erman, Merry Christmas.
0:25.5	Happy holidays.
0:26.3	Happy time off work, whatever it is that you like to say.
0:29.5	Merry Christmas is fine by me.
0:31.9	Yeah, well, we're going to be talking today about the very first people to ever put the Christ back in Christmas.
0:37.1	And that was whoever,
0:38.3	of course, forged the birth narratives of Matthew and Luke. You've got a course coming out,
0:43.3	or it's out now, I think, by the time this video comes out, the dark side of Christmas. We did
0:48.3	a Christmas episode last year, talking about the birth narratives, their contradictions in the Gospels,
0:53.3	you know, what it is that they're really doing.
0:56.2	You've taken a little bit of a different approach this year in your biblical scholarship with the birth narratives.
1:02.0	What is the dark side of Christmas?
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