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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.

Hebrew Bible/OT

• 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

• Did Ancient Greeks Invent Heaven and Hell? March 26, 2019
• A Forger Fooled By Forgery April 22, 2018
• The Surprising Understanding of Gender in the Ancient World March 5, 2018
• Did Romans Allow Jews to Bury Crucified Victims? Readers’ Mailbag January 1, 2018 January 1, 2018
• Decent Burials for Crucified Victims: A Blast From the Past October 20, 2017

Early Judaism

• 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
• Did Romans Allow Jews to Bury Crucified Victims? Readers’ Mailbag January 1, 2018 January 1, 2018

The Historical Jesus

• Pilate Released Barabbas. Really?? March 17, 2019
• Do Any Ancient Jewish Sources Mention Jesus? Weekly Mailbag March 10, 2019
• A Return to the Historical Jesus February 27, 2019
• A New Way of Looking at the Gospels February 25, 2019
• Non-Christian Sources for Jesus: An Interview with History.com February 24, 2019

Paul and His Churches

• 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

Canonical Gospels

• Did Jesus Pray “Father Forgive Them” from the Cross? March 24, 2019
• Pilate Released Barabbas. Really?? March 17, 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

Acts & Catholic Epistles

• 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

NT Text and Manuscripts

• 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
• What *Greek* Version of the New Testament Do I Use? January 13, 2019
• Fundamentalist Arguments Ad Absurdum about the “Original” Text of the NT January 6, 2019

Christian Apocrypha

• The Aberrant View of the Afterlife in the Apocalypse of Peter January 30, 2019
• Finally. Why Did the Apocalypse of Peter Not Make It Into the Canon? January 29, 2019
• Other Manuscripts of the Apocalypse of Peter, And Why It Matters January 28, 2019
• How Do We Know What Was Originally in the Apocalypse of Peter? January 25, 2019
• Was the Apocalypse of Peter Originally Part of the New Testament? December 19, 2018

Proto-Orthodox Writers

• 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
• The Loeb Apostolic Fathers: The Challenges (Again) October 31, 2017
• The Apostolic Fathers: Serendipity Strikes October 30, 2017

History of Christianity (100-300CE)

• 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
• Miraculous Conversions in the Book of Acts November 2, 2018

Jews and Christians in Antiquity

Development of Christian Doctrine

• Who Invented the Idea of a Suffering Messiah? April 8, 2018
• Early Christology: How I Changed My Mind March 2, 2018
• Did They Crucify the Wrong Guy? Jesus’ Identity Switch. December 27, 2017
• Did Jesus’ Death Matter? The Intriguing View of the Coptic Apocalypse of Peter December 26, 2017
• Are Jews and Christians Monotheists? Mailbag October 15, 2017 October 15, 2017

Heresy and Orthodoxy

• 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

Bart’s Reflections

• Very Funny… March 16, 2019
• My Doubts about the Son of God: A Blast from the Past March 16, 2019
• The Protestant Obsession with Origins March 13, 2019
• Who Cares How It All Started? March 12, 2019
• The Passion for Origins March 11, 2019

Acts & Catholic Epistles

• 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

Afterlife

• Did Ancient Greeks Invent Heaven and Hell? March 26, 2019
• An Early Otherworldly Journey March 18, 2019
• The Passion for Origins March 11, 2019
• The Original Obsession with Trips to the Afterlife March 8, 2019
• My Next Scholarly Book: Visits to Heaven and Hell March 6, 2019

The Book of Revelation

• Armageddon and American Politics March 25, 2019
• Secular Versions of the Coming Apocalypse March 22, 2019
• Fundamentalist Visions of the End of the World March 20, 2019
• Expecting the Apocalypse: My Idea for the Book March 19, 2019
• A Bit of Fun with 666! October 6, 2018

Memory Studies

• 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

Mythicism

• 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 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
• If the Quest for the Historical Jesus Failed… What Then? February 22, 2019

Teaching Christianity

• 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

Films About Jesus

• 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

Religion in the News

• 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

Bart Responds To Critics

• 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
• Charges and Anti-Supernatural Biases! Readers Mailbag August 6, 2017 August 6, 2017

Bart Revisits Debates

• Past and Present: One of My Debates with Dinesh D’Souza June 2, 2018
• We Do *NOT* Have a First-Century Copy of the Gospel of Mark May 24, 2018
• Ehrman & Licona: Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? Part 2 March 24, 2018
• Ehrman & Licona: Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? Part 1 March 18, 2018
• Ehrman vs Licona Debate on the Resurrection November 10, 2017

Bart’s Book Discussions

• Armageddon and American Politics March 25, 2019
• Secular Versions of the Coming Apocalypse March 22, 2019
• Fundamentalist Visions of the End of the World March 20, 2019
• Expecting the Apocalypse: My Idea for the Book March 19, 2019
• An Early Otherworldly Journey March 18, 2019

Bart’s Biography

• 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

Bart’s Reflections

• Very Funny… March 16, 2019
• My Doubts about the Son of God: A Blast from the Past March 16, 2019
• The Protestant Obsession with Origins March 13, 2019
• Who Cares How It All Started? March 12, 2019
• The Passion for Origins March 11, 2019

Bart’s Video Media

• My Pod Cast Interview with Sam Harris January 4, 2019
• Past and Present: One of My Debates with Dinesh D’Souza June 2, 2018
• My Life! An Interview with Frank Statio on “The State of Things” May 13, 2018
• Q&A with Bart on The Heretic Happy Hour April 16, 2018
• The Thinking Atheist Interview: The Triumph of Christianity April 10, 2018

Public Forum

• Secular Versions of the Coming Apocalypse March 22, 2019
• Don’t Trust What You Read! January 28, 2019
• Your Thoughts on the Blog? January 17, 2019
• My Pod Cast Interview with Sam Harris January 4, 2019
• Hey, They’re Free! Memberships Still Available for Those Who Can’t Afford Them January 3, 2019

Other Early Christian Writings

• Now, The Gospel of Peter November 16, 2018
• Introducing the Apocalypse of Peter November 12, 2018
• A Very Perplexing Question November 11, 2018
• Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library and Some Crucial Missing Parts! October 30, 2018
• What Was Discovered in the Nag Hammadi Library? August 20, 2018