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- Two Live Lectures This Sunday, On Hot Topics April 7, 2021
- What Is “When Belief Dies” (by Sam Devis): Guest Post by … Sam Devis! April 6, 2021
- A Probing Interview on “When Belief Dies Podcast” April 1, 2021
- A Live Lecture, this SATURDAY (April 3): The Ethics of Paul March 29, 2021
- Did Marcion Know the Gospels or Not?? March 24, 2021
- Live Lectures This Sunday, March 28! Teachings of Paul That Are Widely Unknown. March 23, 2021
- More on Marcion’s Theology March 23, 2021
- Announcing the Ehrman Blog Newsletter – Please Check Your Email! March 17, 2021
- The Value of Amulets for Reconstructing the New Testament Text: Guest Post by Brice Jones March 18, 2021
- The Oldest View of Christ: Found in Only One Greek Manuscript of Luke! February 4, 2021
- How the Trinity Got Into the New Testament: Part 2 January 9, 2021
- How the Trinity Got Into the New Testament January 7, 2021
- Paul Dictated His Letters: How Does *That* Complicate Finding an Original? December 3, 2020
- Why Finding an “Original” Text is So Unexpectedly Complicated December 2, 2020
- What Does It Even Mean to Have an “Original” of An Ancient Writing? December 1, 2020
- Do We Have Paul’s Original Letter to the Philippians? November 27, 2020
- The Remarkable Story of Masada: Guest Post by Jodi Magness May 27, 2020
- Academic Fraud at the Highest Levels May 24, 2020
- Startling and Disturbing Development Involving Manuscripts at the Museum of the Bible October 15, 2019
- Why Was the World Created in 4004 BC? July 1, 2019
- The Hobby Lobby, Biblical Manuscripts, and Academic Scandal June 25, 2019
- An Official Copy of Jesus’ Death Sentence: Another Forgery? May 27, 2019
- Homosexuality and the New Testament. Guest Post by Jeff Siker. March 4, 2019
- Homosexuality in the Bible (and the Christian Church) March 3, 2019
- The Divine Realm in Antiquity (Appropriately: A Pyramid!) March 3, 2021
- What Did Ancient People Think It Meant To Call Someone God? February 27, 2021
- Still Other Humans Who Became Gods: In Jesus’ Time! January 16, 2021
- Could a Human Become a God in the Ancient World? January 14, 2021
- Were Ancient Pagans Sometimes Monotheists? January 13, 2021
- The God Jesus, In Competition January 10, 2021
- No Virgin Births? Then How Were Demi-gods Born In Antiquity? January 5, 2021
- What About All Those *Other* Virgin Births in Antiquity? January 3, 2021
- What Are the Sources of the Hebrew Bible? March 11, 2021
- God Showing Up a (Apparently) Human in the Hebrew Bible March 4, 2021
- Is the “Word” (Logos) of God in John the Wisdom (Sophia) of God in Judaism? February 21, 2021
- Was the King of Israel Called God?? January 23, 2021
- Could Jews Consider Someone Other than God To Be God? January 21, 2021
- Were Ancient Israelites Actually Monotheists? January 12, 2021
- Was The Messiah Supposed to Be Born of a Virgin? December 22, 2020
- Christianizing the Old Testament and the Museum of the Bible: Guest Post by Jill Hicks-Keeton July 21, 2020
- Did the Disciples See Jesus Raised from the Dead? April 4, 2021
- How The Afterlife Changed After Jesus’ Life April 3, 2021
- Fantastic Story. But History? Some Doubts about the Triumphal Entry March 28, 2021
- Did Jesus Really Have a “Triumphal Entry” into Jerusalem? March 27, 2021
- The Doctrine of the Trinity: Where We Are So Far March 7, 2021
- How Old Was Jesus ??? February 17, 2021
- Very Early Understandings of Christ in A Later Book of the NT February 2, 2021
- Jesus, Mary Magadalene, and … Sexual Innuendos? January 31, 2021
- Fantastic Story. But History? Some Doubts about the Triumphal Entry March 28, 2021
- Did Jesus Really Have a “Triumphal Entry” into Jerusalem? March 27, 2021
- Was Matthew Influenced by Buddhist Writings? Platinum Post by Steve Sutter March 9, 2021
- In What SENSE is Jesus “God” in Matthew, Mark, and Luke? My Change of Mind February 28, 2021
- Is the “Word” (Logos) of God in John the Wisdom (Sophia) of God in Judaism? February 21, 2021
- Does Luke Present Different (Inconsistent!) Views of Christ? February 18, 2021
- How Old Was Jesus ??? February 17, 2021
- Was Christ actually God in the Flesh? February 16, 2021
- Modern Christians Who Follow Marcion (Unawares) March 25, 2021
- The Value of Amulets for Reconstructing the New Testament Text: Guest Post by Brice Jones March 18, 2021
- When Did Jesus Become Divine? February 3, 2021
- Women Apostles in Early Christianity November 15, 2020
- How Were the Gnostic Gospels Discovered? October 26, 2020
- What Is Gnosticism? August 2, 2020
- Did Early Christian Heretics Promote Outrageous Sex Rituals? July 14, 2020
- The Outrageous Immorality of Early Christians (!) (?) July 12, 2020
- Was Christ So Divine That He Was Not Human? The “Antichrists” of 1 John March 16, 2021
- How the Trinity Got Into the New Testament: Part 2 January 9, 2021
- Did Some *One* Forge the Writings of “John”? Guest Post by Hugo Mendez May 19, 2020
- Problems with Thinking the “Letters of John” in the NT are Forgeries? Guest Post: Hugo Mendez May 18, 2020
- Are the Gospel and Epistles of John *Forgeries*?? Guest Post by Hugo Mendez May 12, 2020
- Was There One Author Behind the Four Johannine Writings? A Community? Guest Post by Hugo Mendez May 11, 2020
- WAS there a Community behind the Gospel and Letters of John? Guest Post by Hugo Mendez May 5, 2020
- The Johannine Letters in Sum May 1, 2020
- Were Jesus and Christ Two Different Beings? March 31, 2021
- Jesus, Mary Magadalene, and … Sexual Innuendos? January 31, 2021
- An Apocryphal Story of Mary’s Conception of Jesus December 15, 2020
- A Different Account of Joseph and Mary! December 13, 2020
- Peter and Mary Magdalene in Competition November 18, 2020
- The Gospel of Mary Magdalene November 13, 2020
- John, the Bedbugs, and Miracles that Convert October 8, 2020
- The Roman Standards Worship Jesus? From the Gospel of Nicodemus October 1, 2020
- How I First Learned About the Gospel of Judas Iscariot July 20, 2020
- Slurs Against Religious Opponents and Makin’ Stuff Up July 15, 2020
- How Did We Get *These* 27 Books in the New Testament? October 4, 2019
- When Were Matthew and Mark First Seen as Scripture: Guest Post on Papias by Stephen Carlson June 10, 2019
- Papias and the Writers of the New Testament: Guest Post by Stephen Carlson April 25, 2019
- A Papias Mystery: What Was the Book He Wrote? Guest Post by Stephen Carlson April 12, 2019
- Is the Didache One Document or Three? December 23, 2017
- The Ethical Teachings of the Didache December 21, 2017
- Was Marcion a Gnostic? April 13, 2021
- The Earliest Views of the Trinity (Long after the New Testament) April 11, 2021
- How Can the Father and the Son Be the SAME? Can Your Father Also Be Your Son? April 10, 2021
- Are God and Christ the SAME Person? April 8, 2021
- Were Jesus and Christ Two Different Beings? March 31, 2021
- What Is Gnosticism? A Video Introduction March 30, 2021
- Modern Christians Who Follow Marcion (Unawares) March 25, 2021
- A Phantom Jesus: The Teachings of the Second-Century Marcion March 20, 2021
- Constantine and the Christian Faith: My Fourth Smithsonian Lecture May 2, 2019
- When Christianity Became the “Official” Religion of Rome May 2, 2018
- Making Rome Pagan Again May 1, 2018
- The Beginning of the End of Paganism April 30, 2018
- Did Constantine Outlaw the Pagan Religions? April 29, 2018
- The Conversion of Constantine February 12, 2018
- Did the Council of Nicaea Take Away Reincarnation and Give us the Bible? January 8, 2017
- Where Did the Trinity Come From? Video Lecture. September 2, 2016
- 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
- Day Two of Jesus and Brian June 25, 2014
- Day One of Jesus and Brian June 24, 2014
- The Life of Brian Conference June 23, 2014
- Two More Answers from My Pop Quiz September 2, 2020
- Does Basic Information about the NT *Matter*? My Pop Quiz August 30, 2020
- My Faux Pop Quiz this Semester August 26, 2020
- My Early Christian Apocrypha Seminar August 24, 2020
- Jesus in Scholarship and Film August 16, 2020
- Why Would An Atheist Teach the Bible? Readers’ Mailbag July 19, 2020
- Take A Final Exam on the New Testament! May 4, 2020
- How Do I Get To Know What Is In the Bible? February 14, 2020
- Where Did the Trinity Come From? The (Briefer) Video Version March 9, 2021
- My Interview About Jesus for “The Dagger Squad” February 23, 2021
- A Recording of My Webinar on Heaven and Hell January 24, 2021
- An Unusual Podcast Interview with a Muslim about How I Debate. Check This One Out! September 11, 2020
- Smith-Pettit Lecture – The History of Heaven and Hell August 21, 2020
- Reason and Theology – Heaven, Hell and the Afterlife July 7, 2020
- My Interview with Erstwhile-Evangelist-Now-Secular-Humanist Bart Campolo May 20, 2020
- Live Event on Wednesday Evening, May 6! May 5, 2020
- Quotations of Non-Canonical Writings in the New Testament: Platinum Post by Douglas Wadeson March 24, 2021
- Christian Attitudes toward War, Through the Ages: Platinum Post by Dan Kohanski March 2, 2021
- An Intriguing but Most Peculiar Book! Guest Post by Kristin Swenson February 24, 2021
- A Christian Is Not Necessarily a Disciple (Monthly Platinum Post: Douglas Wadeson) February 20, 2021
- The Essence of Religious Literacy: A Christian Perspective. Platinum Guest Post by Fredrick Ackun February 11, 2021
- Interview about My Writing with the North Carolina Writers’ Network February 11, 2021
- Even Giants Have a Cross to Bear: Platinum Post by Marie Wiley February 2, 2021
- Platinum Guest Post by Douglas Wadeson: A Christian Is Not Necessarily a Disciple, and Vice Versa. Part 2 January 27, 2021