334. The End of the World: Bart Ehrman on What the Bible Really Says About the End
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You\\u2019ll find nearly everything the Bible has to say about the end in the Book of Revelation: a mystifying prophecy filled with bizarre symbolism, violent imagery, mangled syntax, confounding contradictions, and very firm ideas about the horrors that await us all. But whether you understand the book as a literal description of what will soon come to pass, interpret it as a metaphorical expression of hope for those suffering now, or only recognize its highlights from pop culture, what you think Revelation reveals\\u2026is almost certainly wrong. In Armageddon, acclaimed New Testament authority Bart D. Ehrman delves into the most misunderstood \\u2014 and possibly the most dangerous \\u2014 book of the Bible, exploring the horrifying social and political consequences of expecting an imminent apocalypse.
Shermer and Ehrman discuss: Ehrman\\u2019s religious journey \\u2022 Who wrote the Bible and why? \\u2022 how to read the Bible and the book of Revelation \\u2022 Who wrote Revelation and why? \\u2022 why Jesus spoke in parables \\u2022 why worry about climate change if the world is going to end soon? \\u2022 David Koresh and Waco \\u2022 Reagan and end times politics \\u2022 how Jesus became a capitalist and militarist \\u2022 faith healers, televangelists, and other Christian con artists \\u2022 Christian ethics and what Jesus really said about the poor and needy.
Bart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity and a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author of six New York Times bestsellers, he has written or edited more than thirty books, including Misquoting Jesus, How Jesus Became God, The Triumph of Christianity, Did Jesus Exist?, God\\u2019s Problem, The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot, and Heaven and Hell. Ehrman has also created nine popular audio and video courses for The Great Courses. His books have been translated into 27 languages, with over two million copies and courses sold. His new book is Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says About the End.
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