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32:00 Do the Gospels Know Paul's Letters?
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50:00 Characteristics of Oral Stories & Memory Distortion
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0:00 Intro & Welcome to Bart Ehrman
3:00 Jesus Before the Gospels: Overview of the Book
8:00 Pre-Gospel Information About Jesus (Paul & Early Traditions)
15:00 Oral Transmission: How Stories Circulated & Changed
23:00 Q Source, Written Traditions & Gospel Dependencies
32:00 Do the Gospels Know Paul's Letters?
40:00 Form Criticism: Background & History of Scholarship
50:00 Characteristics of Oral Stories & Memory Distortion
1:00:00 Eyewitness Reliability & Invention in Traditions
1:10:00 How Earliest Christians Remembered & Altered Jesus
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