Edwin Lewis once quipped that “a religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all.” And certainly one of the greatest mysteries of the New Testament is who was the historical Jesus and who were the scribes who committed his life to scripture. We will be exploring this question tonight with noted New Testament scholars MARGARET MITCHELL, professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, and BART D. EHRMAN, chair of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of the new book Misquoting Jesus: The Story behind Who Changed the Bible and Why.
