Welcome to the March 2022 edition of Review Shorts – where I do have opinions, but an entire review for them would be overkill. Forged: Writing in the Name of God by Bart Ehrman See it on The StoryGraph here Status: Completed Not a lot of new information if you’re familiar with scholarship on the… Continue reading Review Shorts: March 2022
Title: Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife Author: Bart D. Ehrman Genre: Religion Trigger Warnings: Death, existential anxiety, discussions of torture and Hell Back Cover: What happens when we die? A recent Pew Research poll showed that 72% of Americans believe in a literal heaven, 58% in a literal hell. Most people who… Continue reading Review: Heaven and Hell
Title: Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible and Why We Don’t Know About Them Author: Bart D. Ehrman Genre: Religion Trigger Warnings: Death (mentions), torture (mentions) Back cover: Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman’s New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus left off, Jesus, Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the… Continue reading Review: Jesus, Interrupted
Title: Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why Author: Bart D. Ehrman Genre: Religion Trigger Warnings: Discussion of Jesus’s death/suffering Back Cover: For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. Religious and biblical scholar Bart Ehrman makes… Continue reading Review: Misquoting Jesus
Ten years ago, I published the very first post on this blog. It was the third blog I’d ever started, and out of the thirteen blogs I’ve started for both personal and work purposes, it’s the only one still up and consistently active. Except for one short and unintentional hiatus due to college, Bluejay Reads… Continue reading A Decade of Books: Ten Years of Bluejay Reads
Bluejay Reads 