{"id":232286,"date":"2026-02-28T14:07:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/bart-d-ehrman"},"modified":"2026-02-28T14:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:07:54","slug":"bart-d-ehrman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/bart-d-ehrman","title":{"rendered":"Bart D. Ehrman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BY8-mi_azrI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this episode of MythVision, we dive into one of the most intense debates in New Testament textual criticism.<\/p>\n<p>If we have more manuscripts of the New Testament than any other ancient book \u2014 why do scholars estimate up to 500,000 textual variants?<\/p>\n<p>Are we actually close to the original text?<br \/> Do the Gospels contradict each other?<br \/> Do these differences matter \u2014 or are they just minor copying mistakes?<\/p>\n<p>In this discussion we explore:<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cembarrassment of riches\u201d argument.<\/p>\n<p>The variant reading \u201cToday I have begotten you\u201d (Luke 3:22)<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/bart-d-ehrman\">Continue reading \u201cBart D. Ehrman\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of MythVision, we dive into one of the most intense debates in New Testament textual criticism. If we have more manuscripts of the New Testament than any other ancient book \u2014 why do scholars estimate up to 500,000 textual variants? Are we actually close to the original text? Do the Gospels contradict [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}