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Jesus, Interrupted
Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and why we don't know about them)
304 pages
A conversational, paradigm-shifting peek behind the curtain of biblical scholarship that systematically dismantles Sunday school certainties.
What it feels like
Reading this feels like sitting in a fascinating, slightly subversive college seminar with a professor who is finally letting you in on the secrets the church left out. It is an intellectually stimulating and deeply eye-opening experience, though it can carry a destabilizing emotional weight for those actively deconstructing a religious background. The prose is remarkably clear and conversational, moving at a brisk, engaging pace that makes dense historical criticism read almost like a literary detective story. It delights curious skeptics, history enthusiasts, and former believers looking for academic grounding, offering a steady, objective hand to guide readers through the messy, contradictory, and profoundly human origins of the world's most famous book.
- Mood
- intellectual
- eye-opening
- inquisitive
- paradigm-shifting
- Tone
- conversational
- scholarly
- provocative
- objective
- accessible
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- historical truth vs. religious tradition · the evolution of belief · textual unreliability · the gap between academia and the pulpit · religious deconstruction
- The writing
- Clear, conversational, and highly accessible, translating dense academic scholarship into engaging, everyday language.
- The arc
- Moves from comfortable assumptions through a destabilizing deconstruction of familiar texts, arriving at a more nuanced, intellectually honest understanding of history.
- Who it's for
- Curious skeptics, former evangelicals deconstructing their faith, and history buffs who want to know what biblical scholars actually discuss behind closed doors.
Content notes
- religious deconstruction
- challenges to deeply held beliefs
About the book
The problems with the Bible that New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman discussed in his bestseller Misquoting Jesus—and on The Daily Show with John Stewart, NPR, and Dateline NBC, among others—are expanded upon exponentially in his latest book: Jesus, Interrupted. This reveals how books in the Bible were actually forged by later authors, and that the New Testament itself is riddled with contradictory claims about Jesus—information that scholars know... but the general public does not.
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