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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.
- Readers Mailbag: Does Isaiah 53 Predict the Death and Resurrection of Jesus? May 8, 2020
- Is There Any Point To Life? More on Ecclesiastes April 20, 2020
- What Is The Meaning of Life? The Book of Ecclesiastes April 19, 2020
- A Good Time for Wisdom! April 15, 2020
- Heaven and Hell in a Nutshell December 15, 2019
Greco-Roman Religions and Culture
- What Did Ancient People Think (a) God Was? March 5, 2020
- How Were People Crucified? January 15, 2020
- Heaven and Hell in a Nutshell December 15, 2019
- Why Are Their Differences in the Gospels? Does it Affect Their Inspiration? Guest Post by Mike Licona December 10, 2019
- Sex and Gender in the Ancient World November 4, 2019
- The Remarkable Story of Masada: Guest Post by Jodi Magness May 27, 2020
- Heaven and Hell in a Nutshell: Getting into the Kernel December 16, 2019
- An Older Manuscript Controversy about the Dead Sea Scrolls December 4, 2019
- What About the Original *Old* Testament? September 10, 2019
- Does Your Soul Go To Heaven? August 21, 2019
- Paul the Misogynist? The Alternative Perspective March 18, 2020
- Paul the Feminist? The Thecla Legends March 17, 2020
- Paul and the Status of Women March 16, 2020
- Jesus Kissing Mary Magdalene: A Bizarre Scene in the Gospel of Philip February 11, 2020
- Was Jesus Intimate with Mary Magdalene? February 4, 2020
Sex and Sexuality in the Bible
- Jesus as Single: An Actual Argument! February 7, 2020
- Was Jesus Intimate with Mary Magdalene? February 4, 2020
- So… WAS Jesus Married? February 3, 2020
- Does the New Testament Condemn “Homosexuals”? December 8, 2019
- Jesus and Sexual Immorality November 24, 2019
- So: Was Luke Luke? January 19, 2020
- Does the Book of Acts Accurately Record Paul’s Teachings? January 17, 2020
- Did *Any* Companion of Paul Write Luke and Acts? January 16, 2020
- Does the Author of Acts Identify Himself? January 13, 2020
- Problems with Thinking That Luke Wrote Luke (and Acts) January 8, 2020
- How Did We Get The 27 Books of the New Testament? November 18, 2019
- How Did We Get *These* 27 Books in the New Testament? October 4, 2019
- Constantine and the Christian Faith: My Fourth Smithsonian Lecture May 2, 2019
- Eternal Torment Even for Christians? January 14, 2019
- The Happy News! No One Stays In Hell! January 11, 2019
- 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
- The More Scholarly Argument that Paul did Not Write Colossians January 11, 2020
- Problems with Thinking That Luke Wrote Luke (and Acts) January 8, 2020
- But WHY Did Judas Betray Jesus? June 2, 2020
- What Did Judas Betray? June 1, 2020
- If We Did Have the “Original” Gospels, Would That Make Them True? May 31, 2020
- Judas Iscariot? What’s an Iscariot?? May 26, 2020
- Was Judas Iscariot “Made Up”? May 25, 2020
- Did Paul Know that Judas Betrayed Jesus? Readers’ Mailbag! May 15, 2020
- Christians Against Christians: Already In the New Testament March 24, 2020
- Did Paul Really Have *That* Exalted a View of Jesus? March 23, 2020
- Paul the Misogynist? The Alternative Perspective March 18, 2020
- Paul the Feminist? The Thecla Legends March 17, 2020
- But WHY Did Judas Betray Jesus? June 2, 2020
- What Did Judas Betray? June 1, 2020
- If We Did Have the “Original” Gospels, Would That Make Them True? May 31, 2020
- Judas Iscariot? What’s an Iscariot?? May 26, 2020
- Was Judas Iscariot “Made Up”? May 25, 2020
- 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
- Would It Matter If It HAD BEEN a First-century Copy of Mark? A Surprising Answer in the Readers’ Mailbag May 29, 2020
- What I Do Argue in Misquoting Jesus April 27, 2020
- Misquoting Misquoting Jesus April 26, 2020
- Did Paul Really Have *That* Exalted a View of Jesus? March 23, 2020
- Paul and the Status of Women March 16, 2020
- Jesus Kissing Mary Magdalene: A Bizarre Scene in the Gospel of Philip February 11, 2020
- The Gospel of Thomas and the Other Gospels November 13, 2019
- My Lecture in Quebec: Did Ancient Authors Try To Deceive Their Readers? September 17, 2019
- A Readable Edition of the “Lost” (i.e. non-canonical) Gospels September 4, 2019
- The Scholarly Edition of the Apocryphal Gospels September 3, 2019
- 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
History of Christianity (100-300CE)
- Want To Know About the Apostolic Fathers? January 22, 2020
- Was Christianity a Missionary Religion with No Missionaries? January 4, 2020
- Why Do Christians Try to Convert People? January 2, 2020
- How Did We Get The 27 Books of the New Testament? November 18, 2019
- The Gospel of Thomas and the Other Gospels November 13, 2019
Jews and Christians in Antiquity
- Why Do Christians Try to Convert People? January 2, 2020
- Heightened Opposition to Jews in Early Christianity July 5, 2019
- When Christians Went on the Attack Against Jews July 3, 2019
- Why Christians Needed an Old Testament: Pagan Attacks on the Faith June 23, 2019
- The Jewish Bible in the Gentile Churches June 21, 2019
- Jesus “Sweating Blood”: Which Text Would *Scribes* Have Preferred? March 13, 2020
- What Did Ancient People Think (a) God Was? March 5, 2020
- Paul’s Incredibly High Christology March 2, 2020
- A Fuller Exposition of the Christ Poem in Philippians February 28, 2020
- Did Paul Think Jesus Was a New Adam, Not a Divine Being? February 24, 2020
- 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
- Getting a PhD in New Testament Studies May 13, 2020
- Blog-Related Suggestions for Isolation April 24, 2020
- Do We NEED to Suffer? The Argument from Tectonic Plates April 21, 2020
- A Good Time for Wisdom! April 15, 2020
- Easter Reflection 2020 April 12, 2020
- 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
- Live Event on Wednesday Evening, May 6! May 5, 2020
- Is There Any Point To Life? More on Ecclesiastes April 20, 2020
- Q&A on Heaven and Hell April 14, 2020
- Fresh Air Interview for Heaven and Hell: Airing Tuesday! March 29, 2020
- How To Begin with Heaven and Hell: An Excerpt March 22, 2020
- The Coming Armageddon: I Need Some Suggestions! November 12, 2019
- Papias and the Writers of the New Testament: Guest Post by Stephen Carlson April 25, 2019
- Revelation as a Blueprint for our Future April 1, 2019
- April 1, 2019
- The Odd Modern Way of Reading the Book of Revelation March 29, 2019
- If the Quest for the Historical Jesus Failed… What Then? February 22, 2019
- The Value of Eyewitness Testimony October 31, 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
- 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
- Was There One Author Behind the Four Johannine Writings? A Community? Guest Post by Hugo Mendez May 11, 2020
- Were the Gospels Generally Written for “Communities” of Christians: Guest Post by Hugo Mendez May 6, 2020
- WAS there a Community behind the Gospel and Letters of John? Guest Post by Hugo Mendez May 5, 2020
- The More Scholarly Argument that Paul did Not Write Colossians January 11, 2020
- Final Tribute To Larry Hurtado December 3, 2019
- 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
- Other Interesting Features of the Graphic Introduction to the New Testament January 28, 2020
- How I Will Write My “Graphic Textbook of the New Testament” January 27, 2020
- A Graphic Novel (Textbook) on the New Testament! January 26, 2020
- 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 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
- What I Do Argue in Misquoting Jesus April 27, 2020
- Misquoting Misquoting Jesus April 26, 2020
- Why Do Smart People Make Stupid Arguments? February 9, 2020
- Do Textual Variants Actually *Matter* For Much?? November 21, 2019
- Why I’m To Be Pitied for Being the Wrong *Kind* of Fundamentalist! November 3, 2019
- If We Did Have the “Original” Gospels, Would That Make Them True? May 31, 2020
- Do We NEED to Suffer? The Argument from Tectonic Plates April 21, 2020
- Is the Bible Inspired by God? Guest Post by Evangelical Apologist Mike Licona November 17, 2019
- Video Debate with Peter Williams: Can We Trust the Gospels October 27, 2019
- A New Way of Explaining Contradictions in an “Inerrant” Bible October 21, 2019
- My Interview with Erstwhile-Evangelist-Now-Secular-Humanist Bart Campolo May 20, 2020
- Live Event on Wednesday Evening, May 6! May 5, 2020
- Life after Death in the Bible and Beyond: Webinar with Oxford Press May 3, 2020
- What I Do Argue in Misquoting Jesus April 27, 2020
- The Not Old Better Show – Heaven and Hell Book Interview April 22, 2020
- Getting a PhD in New Testament Studies May 13, 2020
- A Powerful Film and Some Raw Emotions May 10, 2020
- My Doubts about the Son of God: A Blast from the Past March 16, 2019
- Jesus and My First Girlfriend: A Blast From The Past March 19, 2018
- Managing the Time! Readers’ Mailbag December 17, 2017 December 17, 2017
- Getting a PhD in New Testament Studies May 13, 2020
- Blog-Related Suggestions for Isolation April 24, 2020
- Do We NEED to Suffer? The Argument from Tectonic Plates April 21, 2020
- A Good Time for Wisdom! April 15, 2020
- Easter Reflection 2020 April 12, 2020
- My Interview with Erstwhile-Evangelist-Now-Secular-Humanist Bart Campolo May 20, 2020
- Live Event on Wednesday Evening, May 6! May 5, 2020
- Life after Death in the Bible and Beyond: Webinar with Oxford Press May 3, 2020
- The Not Old Better Show – Heaven and Hell Book Interview April 22, 2020
- Brief Video Promotion of Heaven and Hell February 25, 2020
- Last Chance for Webinar! May 21, 2020
- My Interview with Erstwhile-Evangelist-Now-Secular-Humanist Bart Campolo May 20, 2020
- A Bart Ehrman Webinar: How We Got the New Testament! May 17, 2020
- A Powerful Film and Some Raw Emotions May 10, 2020
- Take A Final Exam on the New Testament! May 4, 2020
- Was Christianity a Missionary Religion with No Missionaries? January 4, 2020
- Did Superior Health Care Lead to the Dominance of Christianity? August 28, 2019
- Interview for “Letters & Politics” on The Triumph of Christianity May 28, 2019
- Constantine and the Christian Faith: My Fourth Smithsonian Lecture May 2, 2019
- Why Did Christianity Take Over the World? Smithsonian Lecture 3. April 23, 2019
Early Christian Writings (100-400 CE)
- How Could Torture Not Hurt?? Guest Post by Stephanie Cobb July 23, 2019
- What Kind of Book Was Papias Writing? Guest Post by Stephen Carlson May 10, 2019
- Wine Flowing in the Kingdom: Guest Post on Papias by Stephen Carlson May 8, 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