How Jesus Became God

The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

De: Bart D. Ehrman

Narrado por: Walter Dixon

Duración: 10 h y 35 m

Resumen del Editor

In an audiobook that took eight years to research and write, leading Bible scholar Bart D. Ehrman explores how an apocalyptic prophet from the backwaters of rural Galilee crucified for crimes against the state came to be thought of as equal with the one God Almighty Creator of all things.

Ehrman sketches Jesus's transformation from a human prophet to the Son of God exalted to divine status at his resurrection. Only when some of Jesus's followers had visions of him after his death - alive again - did anyone come to think that he, the prophet from Galilee, had become God. And what they meant by that was not at all what people mean today.

As a historian - not a believer - Ehrman answers the questions: How did this transformation of Jesus occur? How did he move from being a Jewish prophet to being God? The dramatic shifts throughout history reveal not only why Jesus's followers began to claim he was God, but also how they came to understand this claim in so many different ways.

Written for secular historians of religion and believers alike, How Jesus Became God will engage anyone interested in the historical developments that led to the affirmation at the heart of Christianity: Jesus was, and is, God.

©2014 Bart D. Ehrman (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers

Narrator ruins a great book

The only way to listen and understant the book (especially if English is no your native language) is to adjust the settings of the narration pace to x0,70. Was the guy in a hurry? Noone from the production team listened once to the final product?

Exceptional!

Once again, an exceptional book by one of the leading scholars in the field.

Scholarly yet readable

Dr.Ehrman has a way of presenting his views in a way the average Layman can understand them. he presents history as history without embellishment. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a concise and cogent discussion of how Jesus was exalted to the position of God.

Excellent

Supers analysis and historical review. Likely will generate much anger from beloveds who choose not to approach it and listen with an open mind.

Jesus!!!!

Ehrman does it again! Bart is the tops in this area. This is the third of his books that I've read/listened to, and all three were very good.

Excellent text read too fadt

This is an excellent and much-needed book from a great author. The narration often is too fast, albeit clear. Perhaps the reader should emulate Dr. Ehrmann's own delivery.

The evolution of god is a fascinating story.

No one today follows the actual teachings of Christ, nor is there any interest to do so. It is too much. work.

Not using supernatural causes is such a cop out

This book reads like a science book and I kept listening with my full attention. I found myself replaying segments multiple times because I really wanted to know what the author was saying. The author does three things to set up his thesis, he tells the listener 1) how a person would have historically thought about the terms used such as "Son of Man" and "Son of God" at the times of Jesus, 2) how the new testament evolved historically and how thought from 30 to 100 CE evolved, and 3) the way a historian would answer the problem without appealing to the supernatural and would go about understanding the problem.

There are at least four other ways the author could have explained how Jesus became to be thought of as a God and do appeal to the supernatural or are purely speculative 1) assume Jesus had an identical twin and use that to explain the Resurrection, 2) assume ancient astronauts visited Nazareth and gave Jesus powers for which would be seen as indistinguishable from Magic (see Clarke's Third Law), 3) allow for Eternal Recurrence with a time loop to be circumvented after the singularity is created or better yet appeal to Hugh Everett III's parallel universes (see a good time travel story like "Thrice upon a Time, by Hogan and available on Audible or read Nietzsche), or 4) assume the New Testament and the Old Testament are all written directly by God and his inspired agents on earth and the final form of the book is the intended inerrant book.

The author takes the incredibly different perspective to the problem and uses the methodologies of history instead! He answers the problem by not needlessly assuming unnecessary things and by applying Occam's Razor and considers the historical record by looking at the way things are known to have happened historically and not once appealing to the supernatural or assuming inerrancy that is never used anywhere else in the study of history (or for that matter in any known branch of science or anywhere else in life).

I enjoyed this book very much and know that this kind of approach is the only way to study historical events. After having had read this book, it's clear to me that existence preceded essence in this case and the best way to think about the issue is to have realized that "Jesus became God" as the title states.

I really wish this book had been available many years ago. It would have saved me many years of unnecessary thought and would have guided me in my bible studies. A historian will never appeal to the supernatural in order to explain, and he had no need for such explanations to tell his story.

Awful performance but fantastic content

What did you like best about How Jesus Became God? What did you like least?

Best: Bart Ehrmans books are always great. Detailed content, well-written.
Worst: performance. The mispronunciations drive me nuts. Example: 'tetragramation' instead of 'tetragramaton'. For my taste, Walter Dixon's narration is a self-conscious, pretentious performance.

Who was your favorite character and why?

N/A

How did the narrator detract from the book?

See above.

Was How Jesus Became God worth the listening time?

For the content, absolutely yes - but only if you can stand the narration.

Any additional comments?

I wish Bart could read his own books - sigh.

Wonderful book with some great historical insight

I really enjoyed the book. He gave some great historical insight. Professor Ehrman does a really good job of defining the historical facts and then explaining how they are used to inform historical narratives.