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HOW JESUS BECAME GOD makes the most astonishing and complex topic in the history of Christianity accessible to every reader, and offers a clear and balanced discussion of how various Christians–and non- Christians-see Jesus. (Elaine Pagels, professor of religion at Princeton University and author of The Gnostic Gospels)“ In this lively and provocative book, Ehrman gives a nuanced and wide-ranging discussion of early Christian Christology. Tracing the developing understanding of Jesus, Ehrman shows his skills as an interpreter of both biblical and nonbiblical texts. This is an important, accessible work by a scholar of the first rank.” (Michael Coogan, Harvard Divinity School lecturer and editor of The New Oxford Annotated Bible)“Ehrman writes with vigor and clarity, but above all with intellectual honesty. He demystifies a subject on which biblical scholars too often equivocate. Both believers and non-believers can learn much from this book.” (John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament at Yale)“This careful book starts where the ‘historical Jesus’ accounts ends and lays out how this absorbing story continued for centuries. Candid and direct, it unfolds what often seem to be the unnecessarily complicated controversies that divided early Christians in a fair and understandable manner.” (Harvey Cox, Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard)“How did ancient monotheism allow the One God to have a ‘son’? Bart Ehrman tells this story, introducing the reader to a Jewish world thick with angels, cosmic powers, and numberless semi-divinities. How Jesus Became God provides a lively overview of Nicea’s prequel.” (Paula Fredriksen, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and author of Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews)“Ehrman writes very personally, especially in the beginning, and this approach draws the reader into a subject that is littered with curves and contradictions... This fascinating discussion will engage—and provoke—a wide audience.” (Booklist)“Ehrman’s book raises questions that should interest us all... [and] represents a genuine conversation among informed scholars.” (Christian Century)“Bart Ehrman has made a career of zeroing in on some of the most difficult questions at the intersection of faith and history.” (Boston Globe)
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In a book that took eight years to research and write, leading Bible scholar Bart D. Ehrman explores how an apocalyptic prophet from the backwaters of rural Galilee crucified for crimes against the state came to be thought of as equal with the one God Almighty Creator of all things.Ehrman sketches Jesus's transformation from a human prophet to the Son of God, exalted to divine status at his resurrection. Only when some of Jesus's followers had visions of him after his death—alive again—did anyone come to think that he, the prophet from Galilee, had become God. And what they meant by that was not at all what people mean today.As a historian—not a believer—Ehrman answers the questions: How did this transformation of Jesus occur? How did he move from being a Jewish prophet to being God? The dramatic shifts throughout history reveal not only why Jesus's followers began to claim he was God, but also how they came to understand this claim in so many different ways.Written for secular historians of religion and believers alike, How Jesus Became God will engage anyone interested in the historical developments that led to the affirmation at the heart of Christianity: Jesus was, and is, God.
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Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: HarperOne; Reprint edition (2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061778192
ISBN-13: 978-0061778193
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5.3 x 0.9 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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4.3 out of 5 stars
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I like the book, but disappointed in the format via Audible.com.I’ll not insult you by reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of books, and I’ll assume that you are similarly familiar with audio books on CDs, but if you are not familiar with audio books as “.aa†files, then you should read on.Unless you listen on your phone or your iPad (I’m not even sure about other “pads.â€), you will likely receive your audio book in one or more 6-hour audio files, perhaps separated by chapters, and amenable to starting at a chapter, but playing all the way to the end.If you wish to listen to a particular chapter, and not go on to the following chapters, you will need to either purchase the audio on CDs or use what I assume to be an illegal procedure to deconstruct the “.aa†files into smaller units, such as an mp3 file for each chapter. Costly and labor intensive even if it were legal.Such limited listening options led me to terminate my brief venture with Audible.com.Incidentally, I confirmed the aforementioned limitation with an Audible.com representative, after which they realized that they had little argument for my continuing my subscription.Otherwise, for many, it appears to be a desirable service.
I was flipping through this book and found that Dr. Ehrman had followed a path similar to my own, attending Moody Bible Institute and later losing his faith in Christianity and God, so I decided to buy the book. I found the book extremely clear and easy to understand, and I was familiar with many of the theological debates about the New Testament textual evidences and about early church heresies and disputes, so nothing in here was particularly shocking to me, though it could certainly have shock value to anyone who thinks they just read the Bible, believe it all, and come up with orthodox evangelical theology.One point that I find particularly persuasive, in terms of the question of whether Jesus himself claimed to be God or the Son of God and equal with God, is his comment, repeated a couple of times, about how different the Gospel of John is. Anyone with a more than passing knowledge of the 4 gospels sees this, and anyone with a study bible knows that the gospel of John was written last, probably at least 60 or 70 years after the death of Jesus.But the key point he makes is that Mark, for instance, never has Jesus say any of the exalted, poetic things that John puts in his mouth. So Ehrman's question is: if, in fact, Jesus went around saying "Before Abraham was, I am," how could Mark have left that out? How could the 3 synoptic gospels have such subtle hints of God-claims, if Jesus actually said the things John attributes to him? To have heard those things from the mouth of Jesus, but just passed them over when writing down the gospels is not imaginable. If I had a hero or leader who taught me a lot of things, and who also claimed frequently to be the son of John D. Rockefeller, it would be pretty strange for me to write a book about him and leave out that last key point, even though it would not technically be false to omit it--but something that would add to the credibility of what he said would be an odd thing to omit.The reason I don't give the book 5 stars is that it is almost over-simplified and repetitive in some ways. I feels to me like lecture notes written up as a book, where each time class meets, the professor starts by reviewing where we were last time. It does make the book very clear, but almost too much so. And sometimes, I just felt tired of the conclusions of biblical textual scholars--this book claims to have been written by Paul, but we don't think it was for reason x, this passage says y, but it was most likely added and so it actually means z, etc. The textual; critics may be right, but it just isn't persuasive to most readers that a letter that says, I, Paul, am writing to you in Colossae," (or wherever) was actually written 100 years after Paul's death. And I recall that a lot of scholarship about the Old Testament doubts the accuracy of OT texts, until the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. So although I am not a believer, I just find some of the scholarly reasoning tedious.The audience that would gain the most from this book are doubters, ie people within Christianity who are feeling uncomfortable with it, wondering if it's true, and want to know more about how we got from the time of Jesus to where we are now. Any study of how we got our bible, how orthodoxy came to be arrived at, how the early church actually functioned, is salient for a person who wants to know whether what they have been taught about the Bible and about Jesus really holds water. If you read this book and then conclude that Jesus was eternally the Son of God who came down from heaven, then you are standing on firmer ground. And if you find that ground shifting under your feet, keep inquiring until you find a satisfactory place to stand.
From a strictly layman's historical view, it is an interesting essay on how a prophet two thousand years ago could come to be declared a "God".BE WARNED...purely historical accounts, and scientific interpretations regarding the origins of the divinity of Jesus Christ, do not mix well with "Faith" and "Religious Belief Systems". This is not a book for those who read the bible as the unchanging word of God. This is an account of how the author sees human interactions, verbal traditions, cultural interactions, and mixed interpretations of the many languages in which the bible was written, and their impact on current belief systems. It's not written in stone, it's not infallible, it's just an interesting insight as to how one author sees how the Jesus story came to be what it is today.
This is a fantastically written book. Ehrman writes in a very accessible and fluid way. He begins each chapter with a personal anecdote that makes the over all narrative more enjoyable and more personal. Ehrman has taken quite the theological journey in his life and this made him into a very through and honest historian. He is first and foremost a historian and you will see how painstakingly he worked to convey only what is known and why and acknowledging when facts are not know. Despite not being a Christian he also deals with the topic of belief and faith in a very respectful way. Ehrman is after the truth, objectively, but is also an honest human being who is attuned to the beliefs and sensibilities of others and presents his facts while being kind to those who do not share his lack of faith. Overall, a great read that informed my view of Jesus immensely, this should be standard reading for anyone who is a believer or seminarian and definitely those interested in Christian history and the theological development of it.
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