Peter Paul and Mary Magdalene Author:Bart D. Ehrman "We will ask what we can learn about these followers of Jesus as real, historical figures, what we can know about who they were, what they did, what they believed, what they taught, how they lived. At the same time we will ask about them as legendary figures who came to play such an important role in the imaginations of those who embraced the Ch... more »ristian religion, at its very foundations, before it became the religion of the Empire and, eventually, the most important social, cultural, political, economic, and religious institution in the history of Western Civilization." -From The Introduction« less