Member Content Access and Categories – Now Greatly Expanded!
As a registered member, each of the following categories are now fully accessible, containing ALL the membership content on this site. These categories represent the current range of topics found on Bart’s blog, although they may be changed or added too as time progresses. As a member, please click on each category to review new content added.
Bart’s writings have generated enormous response from critical readers who object to one or another of his views. Some of these critics have published books taking alternative stands; a large number have attacked Bart on the Internet. Members to this site will see, for the first time, in the category “Bart Responds To Critics”. The public forum contains “Bart’s Thoughts and Ideas” discussing issues directly relevant to the study of the New Testament and early Christianity. Members who join the site will be given fuller access to Bart’s deeper ideas and thoughts.Over the years, Bart has had the privilege of debating with prominent public figures, such as authors, church leaders, professors, theologians and well known apologists.
Members who subscribe to the blog will be given access to “Bart Revisits Debates” that continue the debates, as Bart expands and explains the positions he has taken. In the category “Bart Answers His Readers” Bart addresses questions and concerns presented, in two forums. First, all members may ask Bart questions that he will try to answer. Second, Bart will choose several questions to comment on from his voluminous email correspondence, while keeping the questioner’s identity anonymous.
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.
- Heaven and Hell in a Nutshell December 15, 2019
- An Older Manuscript Controversy about the Dead Sea Scrolls December 4, 2019
- Are Same-Sex Relations Condemned in the Old Testament? November 11, 2019
- Why Women Are To Be Subservient to Men October 29, 2019
- Who Wrote the Pentateuch? The JEDP Hypothesis October 6, 2019
Greco-Roman Religions and Culture
- 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
- Is It Ever Right to Lie? Or Was It? Even in Early Christianity? The Relevance for Forgery. September 29, 2019
- 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
- An Alternative View of Suffering and the Idea of Resurrection August 20, 2019
- How Were People Crucified? January 15, 2020
- End of the Year Final Exam! December 29, 2019
- Why Does Matthew Have the Story of the “Wise Men”? December 26, 2019
- Heaven and Hell in a Nutshell: Getting into the Kernel December 16, 2019
- Who Was Jesus? November 29, 2019
- 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
- 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
- The Life and Message of Paul December 28, 2019
- Does the Author of Acts Identify Himself? January 13, 2020
- Once More on the Credibility of Miracles: Guest post by Darren Slade January 6, 2020
- Did “Luke” Really Write Luke? And the book of Acts? January 5, 2020
- End of the Year Final Exam! December 29, 2019
- Why Does Matthew Have the Story of the “Wise Men”? December 26, 2019
- 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
- Did “Luke” Really Write Luke? And the book of Acts? January 5, 2020
- Do Textual Variants Actually *Matter* For Much?? November 21, 2019
- Introduction to the Manuscripts of the New Testament November 19, 2019
- How Did We Get The 27 Books of the New Testament? November 18, 2019
- Startling and Disturbing Development Involving Manuscripts at the Museum of the Bible October 15, 2019
- Crazy Things Textual Scholars Say October 13, 2019
- 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 Views of the Afterlife Changed August 14, 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)
- 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
- How Did We Get *These* 27 Books in the New Testament? October 4, 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
Development of Christian Doctrine
- How Did We Get The 27 Books of the New Testament? November 18, 2019
- Was Jesus Perfect? Then How Was He Human?? Guest Post: Jeffrey Siker May 24, 2019
- When Did Jesus Become Sinless? May 14, 2019
- The Radical Implications of the Resurrection April 21, 2019
- Who Invented the Idea of a Suffering Messiah? April 8, 2018
- 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
- Two Brief Comments on intriguing topics: the unknowability of God and scholarly subterfuge! January 13, 2020
- A Revelatory Moment about “God” January 12, 2020
- Blog Year in Review, 2019! December 31, 2019
- Christmas 2019 December 25, 2019
- More on the Case Against Miracles: Michael Shermer Guest Post December 23, 2019
- 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
- Did “Luke” Really Write Luke? And the book of Acts? January 5, 2020
- Guided Tours of Heaven and Hell in a Christian Mode December 21, 2019
- Guided Tours of Heaven and Hell: My Scholarly Book December 19, 2019
- Does Your Soul Go To Heaven? August 21, 2019
- An Alternative View of Suffering and the Idea of Resurrection August 20, 2019
- Resurrection from the Dead: Were Jews Influenced by Zoroastrianism? August 19, 2019
- 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
- The More Scholarly Argument that Paul did Not Write Colossians January 11, 2020
- Final Tribute To Larry Hurtado December 3, 2019
- Is the Bible Inerrant? Guest Post by Mike Licona December 2, 2019
- How Many Books in the New Testament Were Forged? September 20, 2019
- My Lecture in Quebec: Did Ancient Authors Try To Deceive Their Readers? September 17, 2019
- End of the Year Final Exam! December 29, 2019
- The Annual Meeting of Biblical Scholars, and ALL Those Books!! November 25, 2019
- Can My Undergraduate Students Continue Believing the Bible is Inerrant? October 24, 2019
- Who Is The Enemy? August 9, 2019
- The New Edition of My New Testament Textbook October 23, 2018
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Who Would Invent the Story of Women at the Tomb?? October 22, 2019
- Misconstruing My Words. Can We Know What the Authors of the New Testament Originally Said? October 8, 2019
- An Ancient Author Trying to Justify His Deceit August 12, 2019
- 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
- Modern Evangelical Christian Apologetics October 20, 2019
- Modern Defenders of the Faith: Why Not Just Tell the Truth? October 7, 2019
- Why Do Christians Try to Convert People? January 2, 2020
- The Case Against Miracles: Guest Post by John Loftus December 30, 2019
- More on the Case Against Miracles: Michael Shermer Guest Post December 23, 2019
- The Case Against Miracles December 22, 2019
- Guided Tours of Heaven and Hell in a Christian Mode December 21, 2019
- 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
- The Apostolic Fathers: Serendipity Strikes October 30, 2017
- Was My Weird Background a Help or a Hindrance: Mailbag October 22, 2017 October 22, 2017
- Two Brief Comments on intriguing topics: the unknowability of God and scholarly subterfuge! January 13, 2020
- A Revelatory Moment about “God” January 12, 2020
- Blog Year in Review, 2019! December 31, 2019
- Christmas 2019 December 25, 2019
- More on the Case Against Miracles: Michael Shermer Guest Post December 23, 2019
- Video Debate with Peter Williams: Can We Trust the Gospels October 27, 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
- Who Were The “Pagans” Christians Were Converting? April 14, 2019
- Bidding to See My New Book January 13, 2020
- Would You Like to Read My New Book NOW Instead of When It Gets Published??? January 9, 2020
- Blog Year in Review, 2019! December 31, 2019
- Christmas 2019 December 25, 2019
- UpcomingTours, Lectures, and Book Readings December 18, 2019
Other Early Christian Writings
- 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