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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.
- 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
- If the Old Testament is Not Accurate — Where Did Israel Come From? October 1, 2019
Greco-Roman Religions and Culture
- 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
- A Recent Argument that Ancient Pseudepigraphy Was NOT Deceptive (or Meant to Be) September 24, 2019
- What Motivated Some Ancient Authors to Lie About Themselves? September 23, 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
- Resurrection from the Dead: Were Jews Influenced by Zoroastrianism? August 19, 2019
- Who Was Jesus? November 29, 2019
- Jesus and Sexual Immorality November 24, 2019
- Maybe Jesus DOES Talk about “Homosexuality”? November 22, 2019
- Is the Bible Inspired by God? Guest Post by Evangelical Apologist Mike Licona November 17, 2019
- Jesus and “Homosexuality” November 15, 2019
- Does the New Testament Condemn “Homosexuals”? December 8, 2019
- What Is the New Testament? A Broad Overview November 5, 2019
- Women Are To Be Silent and Submissive! October 30, 2019
- Is the Author of James Rejecting Paul Himself? August 5, 2019
- The Close Connections of James and Paul August 2, 2019
- Why Are Their Differences in the Gospels? Does it Affect Their Inspiration? Guest Post by Mike Licona December 10, 2019
- Is the Bible Inerrant? Guest Post by Mike Licona December 2, 2019
- Setting Dates for the Gospels November 26, 2019
- Jesus and Sexual Immorality November 24, 2019
- Maybe Jesus DOES Talk about “Homosexuality”? November 22, 2019
- What Is the New Testament? A Broad Overview November 5, 2019
- Why Did the Author of James Claim to be James in Particular? August 6, 2019
- Is the Author of James Rejecting Paul Himself? August 5, 2019
- The Close Connections of James and Paul August 2, 2019
- Is James Responding to Paul? July 31, 2019
- 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)
- 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
- Is It Ever Right to Lie? Or Was It? Even in Early Christianity? The Relevance for Forgery. September 29, 2019
- Were Ancient Readers Interested in Detecting Forgeries? September 18, 2019
Jews and Christians in Antiquity
- 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
- How “Jews” Became “Children of the Devil” in the New Testament June 12, 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
- Does the New Testament Condemn “Homosexuals”? December 8, 2019
- Final Tribute To Larry Hurtado December 3, 2019
- Why Don’t You Just Believe? December 1, 2019
- Thanksgiving 2019 November 27, 2019
- The Annual Meeting of Biblical Scholars, and ALL Those Books!! November 25, 2019
- What Is the New Testament? A Broad Overview November 5, 2019
- Why Did the Author of James Claim to be James in Particular? August 6, 2019
- Is the Author of James Rejecting Paul Himself? August 5, 2019
- The Close Connections of James and Paul August 2, 2019
- Is James Responding to Paul? July 31, 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
- How Views of the Afterlife Changed August 14, 2019
- Who Has The Answer For a Happy Afterlife? August 13, 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
- 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
- Sad News From Larry Hurtado July 10, 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
- The Digital Bible (by Jeff Siker) October 21, 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
- The Coming Armageddon: I Need Some Suggestions! November 12, 2019
- The Quest for the Historical … Judas Iscariot October 25, 2019
- Why It Is Hard To Publish a Translation of an Ancient Text September 29, 2019
- A New and Important Book on the Bible September 16, 2019
- Some Pitfalls of Writing for a General Audience September 9, 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
- Does the New Testament Condemn “Homosexuals”? December 8, 2019
- Final Tribute To Larry Hurtado December 3, 2019
- Why Don’t You Just Believe? December 1, 2019
- Thanksgiving 2019 November 27, 2019
- The Annual Meeting of Biblical Scholars, and ALL Those Books!! November 25, 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
- Do You Want (and Need) a Free Membership to the Blog? Gift Memberships 2019 December 9, 2019
- Would You Be Willing To Give a Gift Membership (or more)? December 9, 2019
- One of the Blog’s Main Charities: Urban Ministries of Durham December 6, 2019
- Final Tribute To Larry Hurtado December 3, 2019
- Thanksgiving 2019 November 27, 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