Loading...If you read these posts every day, you will have learned that I’m retiring from UNC at the end of this semester, am ecstatic about it, and am highly grateful for the career the university and my department has made available and possible for me, as well as for all the students I have had over the years, from still-teenage-recent-high-school grads to seasoned veteran PhD students.
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What an event to look forward to!!!
My Greatest Discovery in the History of Biblical Studies was discovering The Bart Ehrman Blog.
Ha! I don’t think I better make that my thesis! But thanks.
What a generous invitation. Alas! I am now in France and cannot attend. Perhaps, one day, we can share a beverage (or two) and a celebratory cigar to toast both of our recent retirements here in Europe and/or Great Britain!
Very nice Bart/Dr Ehrman. Hope you have a good time.
That’s something I would like to have been apart of but with me living in Ireland and the event only a few weeks away and my job unfortunately I won’t be able to make it. Would be nice to meet the great man in person and to go to America for the first time.
Dan Barker who I like also brilliantly said in a video I watched this week of you speaking for the Freedom from Religion Foundation .
Dan Barker said as he introduced you to the crowd.
” I think no one in this country at least has done more to increase actual biblical literacy about what we should know about what the Bible not only says, but how it came to say what the authors taught it said, No one has done a better job than Bart Ehrman “
Very generous of him. That was a nice occasion.
Dr. Ehrman,
Congratulations on your retirement!
I have greatly enjoyed your insights – Will you continue to post your blog and/or podcast?
Thank you!
Mollie
Most definitely. Retiring from teaching will help me devote more time to the other things I do to communicate with broader audiences.
Your books and blog have changed my life. Thanks so much. Ronald Taska
Thanks Ron!
Are you still going to write books or do debates after you retire?
Oh yes. That’s one reason I’m retiring from teaching: I can’t teach and write books in the amount of time I’m allotted every day…
Enjoy your retirement!!
Hello Dr.Bart Erhman
Is it right that all critical historians agree that to accept for a miracle you would need extra oddinary evidence so when historians have a naturalistic counter example then historians all ways accept the naturalisitic one. I think this is also what Dale Alison said that in academia he dosent believe in miracles but in his personal life he does.
Everyone agrees that you need extraordinary evidence for extraoridinary claims, but that doesn’t mean they necessarily have to reject miracles having happened. My view is that they *should* reject the idea that historians can *show* they happened, but that’s not at all the same as to say that they didn’t happen. Most things in history simply can not be shown to have happened. (What did my grandfather eat for lunch on May 5, 1934. No way to know. Doesn’t mean he didn’t eat anything….)
I will try to make it Dr. Ehrman! I have miles. Imagine how much you’ve contributed to the world!!
So, if you ever check the Forum, I just laid out (with Jstor studies) a hypothesis for al-Najira, meaning THE Nagus of the Christian Aksum Kingdom in Ethiopia, and where he might be found in the Q’uran. His personal name’s theophoric element is ‘Ella. This becomes written ‘Alla on Aksumite coins of the 6th C.
So I’m wondering if he may be referred to as THE ‘Alla, just like he is THE Nagus in Arabic stories, constructing it with the Aramaean ‘the’ from a consonantal abjad because the Qu’ran seems to use Aramaean/Syriac liturgical language.
Also The Living [God/One] The Life that features heavily in the New Testament and Mandaeanism, just saw that epithet in the Qu’ran with virtually the same attribute Ea is given, meaning everything seems to become monotheistic attributes.
Congratulations, Bart! I retired last year after thirty four years teaching and although I miss the students as you doubtless will, the time to read and savor the day is priceless. Enjoy your well-earned retirement and I look forward to more articles and books from you in the years ahead.