Regular readers will remember the appallingly titled "Scholarly Smackdown" featuring Ben Witherington III and John Dominic Crossan on Beliefnet over The Passion of the Christ. Now, there's another one, this time in connection with the Jesus and Paul television programme and again featuring Witherington but this time with Elaine Pagels:
Scholarly Smackdown: Did Paul Distort Christianity?
With Elaine Pagels and Ben Witherington III
To help make sense of the scholarly debates about Jesus and Paul, we asked two of the preeminent scholars to email each other about early Christianity (while letting us peek in). Elaine Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton, is the author of the bestselling Beyond Belief and The Gnostic Gospels. Ben Witherington III is professor of New Testament interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky and author of The Paul Quest and numerous other books.
So far Round 1 is available. Remember to read this for free while you can -- Beliefnet have a habit of "going premium" on their content after a while.
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