Another fascinating, educational selection from The Great Courses. Professor Bart D. Ehrman, a renowned New Testament scholar and speaker takes us through a concise, albeit brief for time allotment purposes, tour of the gospels of the New Testament and the history of them.

Professor Ehrman is a fantastic lecturer and extremely knowledgeable on his subject matter. I was quickly drawn into the lectures and played them several times over to make sure I had ingested the information. After finishing the book, I felt I had a good rudimentary, begginers' understanding of the New Testament and knew infinitely more than I had at the outset. The amount of information I learned after all these years of ignorance on the subject is mind boggling. I can't imagine why I didn't bother to get a basic understanding of the New Testament from a scholarly, historical standpoint years ago.

Highly recommended. Humankind would benefit so much from receiving widespread education on the Bible, and the New Testament in particular. Learning, understanding and diminishing ignorance is the key to the future of the human species. ( )