I like The Colbert Report. Here Colbert hosts and tackles Bart Ehrman, a scholar I’ve said things about before. The result is pleasing to me. That skeptics with a penchant for the sensational like this get so much favorable press among skeptics without a background in biblical studies is a source of some frustration to many who know better. I think the treatment his work receives in this interview is more in keeping with what it deserves.
| The Colbert Report | Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
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The one thing I can’t figure out is why Ehrman here seems to think that a concession to a critic, like “yeah,” “right” or “exactly,” is a rebuttal of the criticism.
Some hat tipping is in order here. Firstly to Pansy and Peony where I saw this clip. Secondly to Dr Tim McGrew for bringing the link to my attention, and thirdly to Matt and Madeleine’s M and M blog where Tim posted the link. I’m running out of hats!
Glenn Peoples
Tuckster
Nice. Now where’s the mind-body podcast? :whip:
Glenn
I start recording in a few hours.
scrubone
“The one thing I can’t figure out is why Ehrman here seems to think that a concession to a critic, like “yeah,” “right” or “exactly,” is a rebuttal of the criticism.”
That’s because Ehrman understands that what Colbert says is irrelevant – Colbert is there to push the book by acting like a clown (to put it politely), any appearance that he might be arguing with Ehrman is incidental to that.