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Monday, April 07, 2014
From the interview ...
Bart Ehrman (asked if some will be insulted by the timing of its release, it being Easter season) in his book "leaves open" if Jesus "rose from the dead" or is "God" because these are "theological" questions and the book is "historical." What "God" means is rather religious, though let's say it is not just that in many cases. People rising from the dead is often surely partially historical. If the physical Jesus walked around is historical. "Appearances" are too, if more subjective. People eating fish is not just a "religious" thing all the same.