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The Summers Lectures, presented annually, are endowed by a gift from the Reverend Lemuel C. Summers and by the Reiff-Lewis Endowment Fund.
Bart D. Ehrman
"The Greatest Stories Rarely Told: Forgeries in the New Testament"
Thursday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m., Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Bart D. Ehrman is a world renowned leading scholar on early Christianity.
The lecture is based on his most recent book, and New York Times best-seller, Forged: Writing in the Name of God - Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are.
Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of hundreds of articles and more than 20 books, including four New York Times bestsellers, and has been featured in Time, The New Yorker, and appears on NBC's Dateline, The Daily Show, CNN, National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, and NPR.
"Ehrman's book is a tour de force and is as exhilarating as it is shocking. It transforms the literary and cultural contexts of the New Testament from dry background into a real world pastiche that is bursting with color," said Bennie H. Reynolds, visiting assistant professor of religious studies at Millsaps College.
For more information, please contact Dr. James E. Bowley at james.bowley@millsaps.edu or 601-974-1328. Summers Lecture is sponsored by the Millsaps College Department of Religious Studies.
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