Ethan Grant
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The History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon
- By: Bart D. Ehrman, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Bart D. Ehrman
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,098
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 969
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 961
What different kinds of books are in the New Testament? When, how, and why were they written? And why did some books, and not others, come to be collected into what Christians came to consider the canon of scripture that would define their belief for all time? With these 12 lectures, get a fast-moving yet thorough introduction to these and other key issues in the development of Christianity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An Abridged Version of "The New Testament" Course
- By Justin Bailey on 09-03-15
Highly Biased and Mialeading
Reviewed: 07-18-23
Dr. Ehrman is a wonderful and eloquent speaker and knows how to get his point across.
However.
It felt all throughout the course (which was more of a contradicory explanation of only some of the books of the NT that fit his purpose for specific arguments) as though he wrote trying to push an agenda. While he states that the course does not seek to cause belief or misbelief it is abundantly clear throughout that he is unable, as a professor, to keep his personal bias out of the way that he teaches. He frames religion altogether as something to look down on and spends most of his time through the course reiterating his opinion rather than teaching how, historically, the NT was written. I enjoy listening to debates of both Christians and Non, to see a vast range of opinion, but I do not enjoy it when it is in a situation like this which is meant to be scholarly.
It was noy until the final lecture that he gives any insight into the actual making of the NT and the information was threadbare at best. Wikipedia would be able to serve one better than Ehrman in this course, unfortunately.
A disappointment, but happily the only disappointment I have encountered from the Great Courses thus far.
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Antigone
- By: Sophocles, Ian Johnston - translator
- Narrated by: Hayley Atwell, Michael Maloney, Julian Glover, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Antigone and Ismene, the daughters of Oedipus, discuss the disaster that has just befallen them. Their brothers Polynices and Eteocles have killed one another in a battle for control over Thebes. Creon who now rules the city, refuses Polynices proper burial rites. Family loyalties, bloody warfare and an edict that one sister cannot honour. The third part of Sophocles masterpiece comes to its dramatic conclusion, in a stunning new production.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent production!
- By Erik on 05-19-23
Amazing performance
Reviewed: 04-01-23
Amazing performances all around of an amazing set of plays. I absolutely recommend this recording!
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