Author: Kit Ehrman
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Keywords: large, easyread, cross, triple
Number of Pages: 580
Published: 2009-12-09
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 1458739589
ISBN-13: 9781458739582

Although 23-year-old barn manager Steve Cline doesn’t expect to stray far from the horse world, he has enrolled in a private investigation course and is working on the final project. But when his father, racehorse trainer Chris Kessler, invites him to Louisville on a two-week, all expense-paid vacation that will culminate with the running of the Kentucky Derby, how can he refuse? Except, it isn’t really a vacation. Kessler has a Derby runner and needs a reliable fill-in when one of his employees is injured. With only two horses to care for, the workload is light, and Steve decides

Author: Kit Ehrman
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Keywords: burn, cold
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2010-10-12
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 1458745015
ISBN-13: 9781458745019

Steve Cline has managed the hunter/jumper show barns at Foxdale Farm for the better part of three years. But he has a deal with himself: When he no longer feels challenged, when the routine becomes stagnant, he will look for another job ... and he passed that point months ago. So when Corey Claremont, one of Foxdales boarders, asks Steve for help because her brother has gone missing, Steve embraces the puzzle with enthusiasm. Two weeks earlier, for no apparent reason, Bruce Claremont quit his job working the night shift on a thoroughbred breeding farm in Warrenton, Virginia, and vanished. To f

Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: HarperOne
Keywords: question, suffer, important, fails, problem, bible, god’s
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0061173975
ISBN-13: 9780061173974

In times of questioning and despair, people often quote the Bible to provide answers. Surprisingly, though, the Bible does not have one answer but many "answers" that often contradict one another. Consider these competing explanations for suffering put forth by various biblical writers: The prophets: suffering is a punishment for sin The book of Job, which offers two different answers: suffering is a test, and you will be rewarded later for passing it; and suffering is beyond comprehension, since we are just human beings and God, after all, is God Ecclesiastes: suffering is the nature o

Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: text, new, testament, controversies, christological, corruption, scripture, effect, orthodox
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1996-02-29
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0195102797
ISBN-13: 9780195102796

The victors not only write the history, they also reproduce the texts. In a study that explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, Ehrman examines how early struggles between Christian "heresy" and "orthodoxy" affected the transmission of the documents over which, in part, the debates were waged. His thesis is that proto-orthodox scribes of the second and third centuries occasionally altered their sacred texts for polemical reasons--for example, to oppose adoptionists like the Ebionites, who claimed t

Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: faiths, scripture, battles, christianities, lost
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0195182499
ISBN-13: 9780195182491

The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine, while others said he was divine but not human. In Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a fascinating look at these early forms of Christianity and shows how they came to be suppressed, reformed, or forgotten. All of these groups insisted that they upheld the teachings of Jesus and his apos

Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: millennium, new, prophet, apocalyptic, jesus
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-09-23
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0195124731
ISBN-13: 9780195124736

Few biographical works spark passions as intensely as do interpretations of the life of Jesus. In this highly accessible book, Bart Ehrman reviews the latest textual and archeological research into Jesus’s life and the history of first-century Palestine, and draws a fascinating, controversial portrait of the man and his teachings. Jesus, Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millenium seeks to show general readers what historians have long known about the Gospels and the man who stands behind them. Through a careful evaluation of the New Testament Gospels and other surviving sources,

Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: HarperOne
Keywords: bible, plus, changed, story, jesus, misquoting
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2007-02-05
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0060859512
ISBN-13: 9780060859510

For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. Religious and biblical scholar Bart Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself are the results of both intentional and accidental alterations by scribes. In this compelling and fascinating book, Ehrman shows where and why changes were made in our earliest surviving manuscripts, explaining for the first time how the man