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Dr. Darrell Bock is Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. He also is Professor for Spiritual Development and Culture there. He is an Editor at Large for Christianity Today and is a Past President of the Evangelical Theological Society (2000-2001). He is the author of over twenty books and is a New York Times Best Selling author. He has been blogging on this site since May, 2006.
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Dr. Bock said: "One has to wonder when an author admits to providing nothing new in a book what the motive is for writing. Informing? Apparently not. Crusading? Perhaps."
Response to Dr. Bock:
Ehrman gives an example in "Jesus, Interrupted" of his speaking in front of a church and having an elderly women approach him afterward and ask, "Why have I never heard this before?"
Ehrman repeatedly stresses that what he is presenting is standard-fair among scholars, but that for some reason, pastors that are learned and educated about such things fail to communicate it to their parishioners. According to Ehrman, his motive is to address that problem. I have read his latest book and would agree that it does just that. He presents this "standard-fair" material in a clear and understandable way.
The reality is that Ehrman probably would NOT have written his latest book to begin with if pastors were teaching such things to their flocks. This looks much more like informing rather than crusading.