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Was Jesus divine? Publisher hedges bets with Bart Ehrman’s new book

c. 2014 Religion News Service

(RNS) Set side by side, the book jackets look almost like matching woodblock prints of a bearded, haloed figure. The titles mirror each other, too, featuring the same trio of names: Jesus, God, Bart Ehrman.

On one of the volumes, How Jesus Became God, Ehrman is clearly the author; but in the reversed How God Became Jesus, Ehrman is the nemesis of a concerted rebuttal.