A Conference on the Gospels for Non-Scholars!
I'm getting very excited about the upcoming remote conference I'll be hosting next week, Sept. 23-24. I've mentioned it before on the blog, and here I thought I could give you a better taste of what it will involve. It is called "New Insights into the New Testament" and will entail ten 50-minute lectures by ten top-level scholars on various aspects of the Gospels -- all directed toward *non-scholars*. Each lecture will be followed by a live Q&A with attendees. Below I give a brief summary of the lectures to whet your appetite. The event is not connected with the blog per se, except to the extent that I'm doing both things and many of you will be interested in it. For fuller information, about what it will be about and how to register go here: https://www.bartehrman.com/new-insights-conference/ The event will begin with a thirty-minute lecture (by me) that summarizes the history of modern biblical scholarship (600 years in 30 minutes!). And then this is the two-day line up. Candida Moss (University Of Birmingham) BAD [...]