Ask NT Wright Anything #120 New Testament Q&A: Pharisees, contradictions & oral tradition

2022-06-02T15:00:00+01:00

Tom answers listener questions on the New Testament. Were the Pharisees all bad? How do we reconcile the different Gospel endings about where the disciples stayed after the resurrection? Is the oral tradition, before the Gospels were written down, reliable?

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