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Who Chose the Books of the New Testament?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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Why Is the New Testament Canon an Important Topic of Conversation?

When the languages and when Kuneiform, which is the writing system, was first kind of rediscovered by Western scholarship, the language was thought to be Assyrian. So that's where the Assyrian connection comes from. It confuses people because you say Assyria and they think maybe you're mispronouncing Syrian. Yes. Like, no, we're kind of, but no, not really. Right. No, I didn't know that about the whole. Okay. Great. Glad you're hosting this because I'm learning things already. Well, I'm always happy to help. You know, it's really interesting to me just as somebody who has been in this field for

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