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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.
- Homosexuality in the Bible (and the Christian Church) March 3, 2019
- Yet Other Apocryphal Books October 22, 2018
- More Apocrypha: A Letter of Jeremiah, (Fascinating) Additions to Daniel, and 1 Maccabees October 19, 2018
- More Books of the Apocrypha: Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, and Baruch October 17, 2018
- Some of the Apocrypha: Tobit, Judith, and Additions to Esther October 16, 2018
Greco-Roman Religions and Culture
- Death and the Meaning of Life April 30, 2019
- Jesus “Only” Adopted to be the Son of God? April 7, 2019
- A Roman Vision of Heaven and Hell March 27, 2019
- Did Ancient Greeks Invent Heaven and Hell? March 26, 2019
- A Forger Fooled By Forgery April 22, 2018
- Enoch’s Vision of the Realms of the Dead April 9, 2019
- Guest Post! Joel Marcus on His New Book on the John the Baptist February 1, 2019
- Were First-Century Jewish Boys Taught to Read and Write? November 28, 2018
- Pilate, Who Never “Learned His Lesson” January 22, 2018
- Pontius Pilate: A Sensitive Guy…. January 21, 2018
- Was Jesus Perfect? Then How Was He Human?? Guest Post: Jeffrey Siker May 24, 2019
- How Jesus Became Perfectly Sinless: Guest Post by Jeff Siker May 19, 2019
- An Eyewitness to the Crucifixion? Another Modern Forgery May 17, 2019
- When Did Jesus Become Sinless? May 14, 2019
- Did Jesus Go to India? A Modern Gospel Forgery. May 13, 2019
- Homosexuality and the New Testament. Guest Post by Jeff Siker. March 4, 2019
- Jews and Gentiles in Paul’s Churches November 2, 2018
- Did Paul Belief in that the Fleshly Body Would be Resurrected October 14, 2018
- Is There Sarcasm in the New Testament? August 5, 2018
- Are Matthew and Paul at Odds on the Most Important Issue? July 10, 2018
- When You Feel Like You’re Talking to a Wall May 26, 2019
- Was Jesus Perfect? Then How Was He Human?? Guest Post: Jeffrey Siker May 24, 2019
- Were Miracle Stories Originally in the Gospels? May 22, 2019
- Being Willing to Accept the Truth May 21, 2019
- Contradictions in the Gospels – Rev Matthew Firth’s Final Response May 12, 2019
- How Would an Early Christian “Know” Which Books Peter Wrote? December 18, 2018
- The Books of Peter December 17, 2018
- Could Peter Have “Written” 1 and 2 Peter Some Other Way? November 30, 2018
- Seriously. How Many People in Antiquity Could Write? November 27, 2018
- Who Wrote 1 Peter? November 26, 2018
- Were Miracle Stories Originally in the Gospels? May 22, 2019
- My Very First Post: Do Textual Variants Matter?? March 31, 2019
- Did Jesus Pray “Father Forgive Them” from the Cross? March 24, 2019
- Why Textual Criticism Seemed to Be on Death’s Door February 17, 2019
- Pursuing My Passion for Textual Criticism February 11, 2019
- An Eyewitness to the Crucifixion? Another Modern Forgery May 17, 2019
- Did Jesus Go to India? A Modern Gospel Forgery. May 13, 2019
- Wine Flowing in the Kingdom: Guest Post on Papias by Stephen Carlson May 8, 2019
- Paul in Hell. The Apocryphal Apocalypse of Paul. April 26, 2019
- The Aberrant View of the Afterlife in the Apocalypse of Peter January 30, 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
- What Is the Didache? December 20, 2017
History of Christianity (100-300CE)
- What Kind of Book Was Papias Writing? Guest Post by Stephen Carlson May 10, 2019
- The Passion for Origins March 11, 2019
- The Original Obsession with Trips to the Afterlife March 8, 2019
- Deciding on Which Books Should Be in the New Testament November 21, 2018
- How Christianity Grew and Grew November 5, 2018
Jews and Christians in Antiquity
Development of Christian Doctrine
- 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
- Early Christology: How I Changed My Mind March 2, 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
- Being Willing to Accept the Truth May 21, 2019
- Do My Biases Mean I *Have* to Find Contradictions? May 20, 2019
- Judging the Debate! May 15, 2019
- Early Christian Liars May 7, 2019
- Could Christian Forgers Justifying Lying? May 6, 2019
- How Would an Early Christian “Know” Which Books Peter Wrote? December 18, 2018
- The Books of Peter December 17, 2018
- Could Peter Have “Written” 1 and 2 Peter Some Other Way? November 30, 2018
- Seriously. How Many People in Antiquity Could Write? November 27, 2018
- Who Wrote 1 Peter? November 26, 2018
- Death and the Meaning of Life April 30, 2019
- Paul in Hell. The Apocryphal Apocalypse of Paul. April 26, 2019
- Enoch’s Vision of the Realms of the Dead April 9, 2019
- A Roman Vision of Heaven and Hell March 27, 2019
- Did Ancient Greeks Invent Heaven and Hell? March 26, 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
- Armageddon and American Politics March 25, 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 Writings of Papias: Guest Post by Stephen Carlson April 4, 2019
- The Protestant Obsession with Origins March 13, 2019
- A Return to the Historical Jesus February 27, 2019
- The Gospel Writers as Editors Rather than Authors February 26, 2019
- A New Way of Looking at the Gospels February 25, 2019
- The New Edition of My New Testament Textbook October 23, 2018
- The Digital Bible (by Jeff Siker) October 21, 2018
- Studying the Bible as Theology and/or History September 24, 2018
- What It Takes to be a Graduate Student April 25, 2018
- Illuminating Exercises: The Position Paper Assignments for My NT Greek Class January 20, 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
- 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 Pope and the Lord’s Prayer December 10, 2017
- Bart Ehrman discusses the Apocalypticist July 27, 2016
- Some Comments on the Gospel of John: (Based on John Spong’s Book). A Blast from the Past June 12, 2016
- My Very First Post: Do Textual Variants Matter?? March 31, 2019
- My Testier Days: A Response to a Critique of How Jesus Became God April 17, 2018
- A Privileged View of Suffering March 11, 2018
- Why Differences and Discrepancies Matter Theologically/Religiously February 16, 2018
- The Skeletal Remains of Yehohanan: Readers Mailbag October 8, 2017 October 8, 2017
- When You Feel Like You’re Talking to a Wall May 26, 2019
- Being Willing to Accept the Truth May 21, 2019
- Do My Biases Mean I *Have* to Find Contradictions? May 20, 2019
- Judging the Debate! May 15, 2019
- Contradictions and Contradictions: Final Response to Matt Firth May 3, 2019
- Why Did Ancient Christian Forgers Commit Forgery? May 5, 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
- Christianity’s Most Important Convert: Lecture at the Smithsonian April 8, 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
- Being Willing to Accept the Truth May 21, 2019
- Do My Biases Mean I *Have* to Find Contradictions? May 20, 2019
- Judging the Debate! May 15, 2019
- Early Christian Liars May 7, 2019
- Could Christian Forgers Justifying Lying? May 6, 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
- Christianity’s Most Important Convert: Lecture at the Smithsonian April 8, 2019
- My Pod Cast Interview with Sam Harris January 4, 2019
- Judging the Debate! May 15, 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
- Fund Raising Event on the Blog: Contradictions in the Gospels?? April 10, 2019
Other Early Christian Writings
- 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
- Papias. How Do We Know His Context? Guest post by Stephen Carlson April 5, 2019