“You think that the text itself has no meaning intrinsic to it. It’s only the meaning that the reader brings to the text.” Ehrman said, “That’s correct.” And so this person in the audience was very perceptive and said, “Well, then, as I’m reading your book, it seems to me that I bring meaning to it, Bart, and that I can make it say anything it wants to say. So if you say Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, or the Jesus of the NT is not the Jesus who actually walked the shores of the Sea of Galilee—if