Salon.com just published an interview with Bart Ehrman, New Testament scholar, former evangelical Christian, current agnostic, and the author of a new book called “Jesus, Interrupted.” I haven’t read the book yet, but I am very familiar with Ehrman’s work and I highly recommend his books. Salon describes him as “a bomb-throwing moderate, a non-dogmatic rationalist.” His earlier “Misquoting Jesus” is a highly readable introduction to what bible scholars know about who wrote the New Testament and why biblical infallibility cannot be true. After a brief detour into the problem of evil with his book “God’s Problem,” he has now returned to his area of expertise and expands on themes from “Misquoting Jesus,” and I am sure it will be a worthwhile read. Here is the article. And here is a video where Ehrman briefly discusses the new book, and here he discusses it on NPR’s Fresh Air..

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