Entries from November 2007 ↓

A recent read that I have found interesting, that poses more questions than answers, is Bart D. Ehrman‘s Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make it into the New Testament. I choose this book as opposed to his other popular book, Lost Christianities, because Lost Scriptures is simply a collection of the translated texts as opposed to commentary. The Christian texts in the book range from the 1st to 4th centuries, most of which have only been discovered in the last 60 years. It also looks at texts that no longer exist, our only knowledge coming from instances when the text was cited or quoted by someone else. Extremely interesting read. Here are a couple take-aways from the book: Continue reading →