Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior audiobook runs 10.1 hours unabridged, narrated by Joe Barrett (about 6.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 10.1 hours of listening.
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| 30 min / day | 21 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 10.1 hours, it runs longer than 83% of the 31,789 Religion & Spirituality audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Joe Barrett
Joe Barrett narrates 394 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,244 hours in all.
About as long, on the Religion & Spirituality shelf
3,384 Religion & Spirituality audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior is an audiobook by Bart D. Ehrman: a 10.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Joe Barrett, released March 1, 2016, on the Religion & Spirituality shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Joe Barrett
- Released
- March 1, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Religion & Spirituality
- ISBN
- 9780062445209
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How long is the Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior audiobook?
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior runs 10.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.7 hours.
Is the Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior audiobook free?
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Who narrates Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior?
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior is narrated by Joe Barrett.
Is Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.7 hours, saving 3.4 hours.