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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.
- Was Jesus Made Up? A Blast from the Past. June 20, 2017
- Why Was the Emperor Worshiped? September 28, 2016
- The God Julius Caesar September 23, 2016
- Rulers as Gods: The Context of Ancient Religion September 22, 2016
- When Men Became Gods: My Lecture in Denmark September 21, 2016
- A Resurrection for Tortured Jews (2 Maccabees) August 17, 2017
- Was Resurrection a Zoroastrian Idea? August 10, 2017
- Daniel and a New Doctrine of Resurrection from the Dead August 9, 2017
- A Resurrection of the Dead in the Prophet Ezekiel? August 7, 2017
- Charges and Anti-Supernatural Biases! Readers Mailbag August 6, 2017 August 6, 2017
- The Essence of Biblical Apocalyptic Thought July 13, 2017
- Was Jesus Made Up? A Blast from the Past. June 20, 2017
- My Meditation Practice and Women at the Empty Tomb: Readers Mailbag April 9, 2017 April 9, 2017
- Bart Ehrman & Robert Price Debate – Did Jesus Exist? March 26, 2017
- The Burial of Jesus: A Blast from the Past March 20, 2017
- Do Later Manuscript Discoveries Ever Support Proposed Interpolations? August 22, 2017
- Are There Passages Where *Every* NT Manuscript Gives the “Wrong” Reading? August 21, 2017
- Interpolations and Textual Corruptions: The Blurry Lines August 15, 2017
- Is There Evidence that Luke Originally Did Not Have the Story of Jesus Birth? August 14, 2017
- My Role in Editing My Most Important Book that No One Has Heard Of. June 25, 2017
- Was John the Son of Zebedee Capable of Writing a Gospel? August 20, 2017
- Is There Evidence that Luke Originally Did Not Have the Story of Jesus Birth? August 14, 2017
- Did Luke’s Gospel Originally Have The Birth Story? Readers Mailbag and a Blast from the Past August 13, 2017
- How Biblical Discrepancies Can Be Theologically Liberating for a Christian June 19, 2017
- A Very Different Portrayal of Jesus’ Death June 16, 2017
- Recent Manuscript Discoveries: A Blast from the Past March 31, 2017
- A Different Interpretation of the Mischievous Boy, Jesus December 10, 2016
- Newsweek Article on Christmas: Part 1 November 28, 2016
- Bart Ehrman discusses the Apocalypticist July 27, 2016
- My Non-Disclosure Agreement and the Gospel of Judas February 10, 2015
- How Women Came to Be Silenced in Early Christianity: A Blast From the Past August 4, 2017
- Did Paul Think Jesus’ Body Remained in the Grave? Mailbag July 14, 2017 July 14, 2017
- How Can Paul Say that Jesus Appeared to “The Twelve”? June 12, 2017
- One Scholar’s Take on the Resurrection of Jesus: A Blast from the Past April 16, 2017
- Was Cephas Peter? The Rest of the Argument December 15, 2016
- Can (or Should) We Change the Canon of Scripture? A Blast from the Past June 8, 2017
- My Work Habits the Letter allegedly by Jesus’ Own Brother: Mailbag 2/12/2017 February 12, 2017
- How Did Ancient Writers Use Secretaries? A Blast from the Past August 5, 2016
- Who Could Read and Write? A Blast from the Past. August 4, 2016
- The End of Time in Revelation and the Gospel of John August 3, 2016
- Eternal Life and Damnation March 27, 2017
- Another Gory Account of the Afterlife: The Apocalypse of Paul March 22, 2017
- Touring Hell: The Apocalypse of Peter March 21, 2017
- Jesus the Superboy: A Blast From the Past December 9, 2016
- A Fantastic Saying of Jesus in Papias June 5, 2015
- Adoptionistic Christologies October 14, 2015
- Problems with Patristic Evidence August 18, 2013
- The God Christ and the Jews April 27, 2013
- The Mayan Calendar, Y2K, and the Letter of Barnabas January 3, 2013
- How to Date Documents, including Barnabas January 2, 2013
- Why Was Marcion Declared a Heretic? July 3, 2017
- The Arch-Heretic Marcion’s Theology October 18, 2016
- Early Christian Docetism September 28, 2015
- Back to the Question: The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture September 11, 2015
- Did Scribes Add the Passage of the Bloody Sweat? August 25, 2015
- Did the Council of Nicaea Take Away Reincarnation and Give us the Bible? January 8, 2017
- Constantine’s Vision(s): What Did He Really See and When? July 26, 2016
- Constantine’s Vision according to Eusebius July 24, 2016
- Two Versions of Constantine’s Vision July 20, 2016
- Constantine Before His Conversion July 19, 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
- 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
- Back to the Forgery of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife September 10, 2015
- More Hard Issues on the Qur’an Fragments July 29, 2015
- Spilling the Beans on my Beliefs on the Last Day of Class May 2, 2017
- Can Teaching Be Objective? May 1, 2017
- Teaching the Bible as a Historical Book April 28, 2017
- Teaching Religion in a Secular Environment April 26, 2017
- About Graduate Studies: A Blast from the Past April 23, 2017
- Physical Persecution and the Physical Resurrection of the Dead August 18, 2017
- Is There Evidence that Luke Originally Did Not Have the Story of Jesus Birth? August 14, 2017
- A New Blog Podcast! August 11, 2017
- The Origins of Heaven and Hell August 3, 2017
- A New Attack on My Views July 31, 2017
- One Scholar’s Take on the Resurrection of Jesus: A Blast from the Past April 16, 2017
- Recent Manuscript Discoveries: A Blast from the Past March 31, 2017
- Touring Hell: The Apocalypse of Peter March 21, 2017
- What I’m Thinking about the Afterlife March 10, 2017
- Does the Afterlife Matter for Other Things? March 8, 2017
- Do Later Manuscript Discoveries Ever Support Proposed Interpolations? August 22, 2017
- Are There Passages Where *Every* NT Manuscript Gives the “Wrong” Reading? August 21, 2017
- Was John the Son of Zebedee Capable of Writing a Gospel? August 20, 2017
- Interpolations and Textual Corruptions: The Blurry Lines August 15, 2017
- Did Luke’s Gospel Originally Have The Birth Story? Readers Mailbag and a Blast from the Past August 13, 2017
- Charges and Anti-Supernatural Biases! Readers Mailbag August 6, 2017 August 6, 2017
- Was Jesus Made Up? A Blast from the Past. June 20, 2017
- How Do We Know What “Most Scholars” Think? January 20, 2017
- Finding Meaning in the Bible: More Responses to my Christmas Article December 5, 2016
- Carrier and James the Brother of Jesus November 5, 2016
- Lecture at Washington & Jefferson College July 26, 2017
- Bart Ehrman & Robert Price Debate – Did Jesus Exist? March 26, 2017
- The Gospel Truth: Sometimes A Little Hazy February 16, 2017
- Drew Marshall Show – Jesus Before The Gospels February 5, 2017
- Ehrman vs Craig: Evidence for Resurrection January 25, 2017
- Do Later Manuscript Discoveries Ever Support Proposed Interpolations? August 22, 2017
- Physical Persecution and the Physical Resurrection of the Dead August 18, 2017
- A Resurrection for Tortured Jews (2 Maccabees) August 17, 2017
- Interpolations and Textual Corruptions: The Blurry Lines August 15, 2017
- Did Luke’s Gospel Originally Have The Birth Story? Readers Mailbag and a Blast from the Past August 13, 2017