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Archive of Posts in Chronological Order by Recent Date per Category
Note: Many posts exist within each category, but the child posts were reduced to 5 for cell phone users.
- Some of the Apocrypha: Tobit, Judith, and Additions to Esther October 16, 2018
- What Is the Apocrypha (of the Old Testament)? October 15, 2018
- The Historical Significance of Contradictions July 5, 2018
- Sources for the Hebrew Bible: A Blast from the Past June 24, 2018
- Are Jews and Christians Monotheists? Mailbag October 15, 2017 October 15, 2017
Greco-Roman Religions and Culture
- A Forger Fooled By Forgery April 22, 2018
- The Surprising Understanding of Gender in the Ancient World March 5, 2018
- Did Romans Allow Jews to Bury Crucified Victims? Readers’ Mailbag January 1, 2018 January 1, 2018
- Decent Burials for Crucified Victims: A Blast From the Past October 20, 2017
- Too Much Money and the Afterlife September 11, 2017
- Pilate, Who Never “Learned His Lesson” January 22, 2018
- Pontius Pilate: A Sensitive Guy…. January 21, 2018
- Did Romans Allow Jews to Bury Crucified Victims? Readers’ Mailbag January 1, 2018 January 1, 2018
- Decent Burials for Crucified Victims: A Blast From the Past October 20, 2017
- Are Jews and Christians Monotheists? Mailbag October 15, 2017 October 15, 2017
- If Jesus Wasn’t Really Raised from the Dead, What Happened? October 5, 2018
- Did Jesus Believe Sinners Would Be Annihilated? The Sheep and the Goats September 12, 2018
- Gehenna: Where You Do Not Want to Go September 10, 2018
- Jesus on Gehenna September 9, 2018
- Looking for Feedback on My Views about Jesus and the Afterlife September 7, 2018
- Did Paul Belief in that the Fleshly Body Would be Resurrected October 14, 2018
- Is There Sarcasm in the New Testament? August 5, 2018
- Are Matthew and Paul at Odds on the Most Important Issue? July 10, 2018
- Does the Book of Acts Portray the *Teachings* of Paul Accurately? June 18, 2018
- Does the Book of Acts Accurately Portray the Life and Teachings of Paul? June 17, 2018
- Mapping the Diversity of Earliest Christianity October 11, 2018
- What’s the Story of Lazarus and the Rich Man All About? October 11, 2018
- The Fate of the Rich and the Poor: Another Story October 8, 2018
- Heaven, Hell, and the Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man October 8, 2018
- How Do We Know When the Gospels Were Written? September 21, 2018
Acts, Catholic Epistles, Revelation
- A Bit of Fun with 666! October 6, 2018
- Who Wrote the Book of Revelation? October 4, 2018
- The Lake of Fire in Revelation October 2, 2018
- The Afterlife in Revelation October 1, 2018
- More on the Symbolism of Revelation September 30, 2018
- Finishing my Dissertation August 17, 2018
- The Core of My Dissertation on The Gospel Quotations of Didymus the Blind August 15, 2018
- Bruce Metzger and Me: Finding a Dissertation August 14, 2018
- What I Saw at St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai July 15, 2018
- Does Luke Flat Out Contradict Himself? June 22, 2018
- A Peculiar Story of Peter’s Martyrdom September 19, 2018
- Thomas and His Identical Twin Jesus, in the Acts of Thomas September 4, 2018
- Jesus’ Twin Brother, Thomas September 3, 2018
- Thomas, the Synoptic Gospels, and Q August 31, 2018
- Thomas: The Most Important Gospel Outside the New Testament August 29, 2018
- Is the Didache One Document or Three? December 23, 2017
- The Ethical Teachings of the Didache December 21, 2017
- What Is the Didache? December 20, 2017
- The Loeb Apostolic Fathers: The Challenges (Again) October 31, 2017
- The Apostolic Fathers: Serendipity Strikes October 30, 2017
History of Christianity (100-300CE)
- Who *Was* the First Bishop of Rome? September 17, 2018
- Thomasine Christians and Others, From After the New Testament August 27, 2018
- The Valentinian Gnostics from After The New Testament August 26, 2018
- The Sethian Gnostics, from After The New Testament August 24, 2018
- Our Knowledge of Gnosticism August 21, 2018
Development of Christian Doctrine
- Who Invented the Idea of a Suffering Messiah? April 8, 2018
- Early Christology: How I Changed My Mind March 2, 2018
- Did They Crucify the Wrong Guy? Jesus’ Identity Switch. December 27, 2017
- Did Jesus’ Death Matter? The Intriguing View of the Coptic Apocalypse of Peter December 26, 2017
- Are Jews and Christians Monotheists? Mailbag October 15, 2017 October 15, 2017
- Thomas: The Most Important Gospel Outside the New Testament August 29, 2018
- The Gospel of Thomas: An Overview August 28, 2018
- Thomasine Christians and Others, From After the New Testament August 27, 2018
- The Valentinian Gnostics from After The New Testament August 26, 2018
- The Sethian Gnostics, from After The New Testament August 24, 2018
- Studying the Bible as Theology and/or History September 24, 2018
- How I Take Notes on What I Read for a Trade Book September 23, 2018
- Writing a Historical-Critical Textbook that Isn’t *Critical* September 20, 2018
- Peter: First Bishop (Pope) in Rome? September 16, 2018
- Would the Disciples Die for A Lie? Proofs for the Resurrection. September 13, 2018
- Did Paul Belief in that the Fleshly Body Would be Resurrected October 14, 2018
- What’s the Story of Lazarus and the Rich Man All About? October 11, 2018
- The Fate of the Rich and the Poor: Another Story October 8, 2018
- Heaven, Hell, and the Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man October 8, 2018
- The Lake of Fire in Revelation October 2, 2018
- Eyewitnesses and the Gospels: A Blast From the Past May 14, 2017
- Memory, Eyewitnesses, and the Relevance of Jesus: Readers Mailbag March 18, 2016
- The Triumphal Entry as a Distorted Memory March 7, 2016
- Weekly Readers Mailbag: February 13, 2016 February 13, 2016
- Weekly Readers’ Mailbag: February 7, 2016 February 7, 2016
- Was Jesus Made Up? A Blast from the Past. June 20, 2017
- Would I Be Personally Devastated if the Mythicists Were Right? A Blast From the Past May 28, 2017
- Mythicists and the Virgin Birth: Readers’ Mailbag May 6, 2017 May 6, 2017
- Bart Ehrman & Robert Price Debate – Did Jesus Exist? March 26, 2017
- Can Biblical Scholars Be Historians? January 13, 2017
History of Biblical Scholarship
- Redaction Criticism of the Gospels December 1, 2017
- Translating the Apostolic Fathers: A Blast from the Past October 27, 2017
- Problems with Some Bible Translations, including the King James: A Blast from the Past September 4, 2017
- Lecture at Washington & Jefferson College July 26, 2017
- What Really Happened to Me: Demythologizing the New Testament June 5, 2017
- Studying the Bible as Theology and/or History September 24, 2018
- What It Takes to be a Graduate Student April 25, 2018
- Illuminating Exercises: The Position Paper Assignments for My NT Greek Class January 20, 2018
- My Greek New Testament Course January 12, 2018
- The Academic Study of the New Testament October 23, 2017
- Bart Ehrman discusses the Apocalypticist July 27, 2016
- Violent Opposition to the Romans in the Days of Jesus (or Brian)? June 30, 2014
- Brian and the Apocalyptic Jesus Part 3 June 29, 2014
- Brian and the Apocalyptic Jesus Part 2 June 28, 2014
- Brian and the Apocalyptic Jesus Parts 1 June 27, 2014
- The Pope and the Lord’s Prayer December 10, 2017
- Bart Ehrman discusses the Apocalypticist July 27, 2016
- Some Comments on the Gospel of John: (Based on John Spong’s Book). A Blast from the Past June 12, 2016
- New Archaeological Discoveries and the Bible! Readers Mailbag April 16, 2016 April 16, 2016
- Christians, Muslims, and God: Wheaton College in the News December 21, 2015
- My Testier Days: A Response to a Critique of How Jesus Became God April 17, 2018
- A Privileged View of Suffering March 11, 2018
- Why Differences and Discrepancies Matter Theologically/Religiously February 16, 2018
- The Skeletal Remains of Yehohanan: Readers Mailbag October 8, 2017 October 8, 2017
- Charges and Anti-Supernatural Biases! Readers Mailbag August 6, 2017 August 6, 2017
- Past and Present: One of My Debates with Dinesh D’Souza June 2, 2018
- We Do *NOT* Have a First-Century Copy of the Gospel of Mark May 24, 2018
- Ehrman & Licona: Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? Part 2 March 24, 2018
- Ehrman & Licona: Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? Part 1 March 18, 2018
- Ehrman vs Licona Debate on the Resurrection November 10, 2017
- How I Take Notes on What I Read for a Trade Book September 23, 2018
- Writing a Historical-Critical Textbook that Isn’t *Critical* September 20, 2018
- Opportunity Knocking: A Chance to Read a Draft of My Book September 14, 2018
- Looking for Feedback on My Views about Jesus and the Afterlife September 7, 2018
- Progress Report on the Afterlife September 2, 2018
- Jesus and My First Girlfriend: A Blast From The Past March 19, 2018
- Managing the Time! Readers’ Mailbag December 17, 2017 December 17, 2017
- The Apostolic Fathers: Serendipity Strikes October 30, 2017
- Was My Weird Background a Help or a Hindrance: Mailbag October 22, 2017 October 22, 2017
- How Changing My Views Affected My Relationships September 17, 2017
- Studying the Bible as Theology and/or History September 24, 2018
- How I Take Notes on What I Read for a Trade Book September 23, 2018
- Writing a Historical-Critical Textbook that Isn’t *Critical* September 20, 2018
- Peter: First Bishop (Pope) in Rome? September 16, 2018
- Would the Disciples Die for A Lie? Proofs for the Resurrection. September 13, 2018
- Past and Present: One of My Debates with Dinesh D’Souza June 2, 2018
- My Life! An Interview with Frank Statio on “The State of Things” May 13, 2018
- Q&A with Bart on The Heretic Happy Hour April 16, 2018
- The Thinking Atheist Interview: The Triumph of Christianity April 10, 2018
- Ehrman & Licona: Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? Part 2 March 24, 2018
- Opportunity Knocking: A Chance to Read a Draft of My Book September 14, 2018
- Opening for Dinner in Durham September 4, 2018
- Progress Report on the Afterlife September 2, 2018
- Proselytizing on the Blog August 22, 2018
- Blog Dinner in Durham in September is Full! August 8, 2018
Other Early Christian Writings
- What Was Discovered in the Nag Hammadi Library? August 20, 2018
- How the Gospel of Thomas Was Discovered August 19, 2018
- Is 1 Clement Older than Some Books of the New Testament? August 13, 2018
- Did a “Pope” Write the First-Century Book of 1 Clement? August 12, 2018
- The Letter of First Clement: An Overview August 10, 2018