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• Free Memberships for Those Who Need Them! December 11, 2018
• The Birth of Jesus in Luke December 10, 2018
• What Can We Know about Jesus’ Birth? December 9, 2018
• Another Chance: Donating Free Memberships December 8, 2018
• Did Jesus Write Anything in the New Testament? December 7, 2018
• An Intriguingly Legendary Account of Jesus’ Death December 5, 2018
• A Gospel Written by Joseph of Arimathea! December 4, 2018
• Do Any Forgeries Claim to be Written by Jesus? December 3, 2018
• Gift Memberships 2018! December 2, 2018
• Could Peter Have “Written” 1 and 2 Peter Some Other Way? November 30, 2018
• Were First-Century Jewish Boys Taught to Read and Write? November 28, 2018
• Seriously. How Many People in Antiquity Could Write? November 27, 2018
• Who Wrote 1 Peter? November 26, 2018
• The Situation Behind the (“Forged”) Book of 1 Peter November 25, 2018
• The So-Called First Letter of Peter November 23, 2018
• Thanksgiving Musings 2018 November 22, 2018
• Deciding on Which Books Should Be in the New Testament November 21, 2018
• Question: How Do I Read Books? November 19, 2018
• Early Debates about the Gospel of Peter November 18, 2018
• Now, The Gospel of Peter November 16, 2018
• Interested in Taking a Trip With Me to Greece and Turkey? November 14, 2018
• Introducing the Book of 2 Peter November 13, 2018
• Introducing the Apocalypse of Peter November 12, 2018
• A Very Perplexing Question November 11, 2018
• Thanksgiving and the Blog November 9, 2018
• Old and Ongoing Criticisms! November 7, 2018
• The De-apocalypticized Jesus of the Gospel of John November 6, 2018
• How Christianity Grew and Grew November 5, 2018
• Today You Will Be With Me in Paradise? November 4, 2018
• Miraculous Conversions in the Book of Acts November 2, 2018
• Jews and Gentiles in Paul’s Churches November 2, 2018
• Jesus and Hell October 31, 2018
• The Value of Eyewitness Testimony October 31, 2018
• Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library and Some Crucial Missing Parts! October 30, 2018
• The Difference Between Eschatology and Apocalypticism October 29, 2018
• My Own Translation of the New Testament? October 28, 2018
• Jesus’ Apocalyptic Message in Matthew October 26, 2018
• Did Jesus Call Himself God? October 26, 2018
• How Reliable are Oral Traditions? October 24, 2018
• Talking Dogs and Resurrected Slaves October 24, 2018
• The New Edition of My New Testament Textbook October 23, 2018
• Yet Other Apocryphal Books October 22, 2018
• Blog Dinner! Denver, November 15 October 21, 2018
• The Digital Bible (by Jeff Siker) October 21, 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
• What Is the Apocrypha (of the Old Testament)? October 15, 2018
• Did Paul Belief in that the Fleshly Body Would be Resurrected October 14, 2018
• Mapping the Diversity of Earliest Christianity October 11, 2018
• What’s the Story of Lazarus and the Rich Man All About? October 11, 2018
• The Fate of the Rich and the Poor: Another Story October 8, 2018
• Heaven, Hell, and the Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man October 8, 2018
• A Bit of Fun with 666! October 6, 2018
• If Jesus Wasn’t Really Raised from the Dead, What Happened? October 5, 2018
• Who Wrote the Book of Revelation? October 4, 2018
• The Lake of Fire in Revelation October 2, 2018
• The Afterlife in Revelation October 1, 2018
• More on the Symbolism of Revelation September 30, 2018
• More Symbolism in Revelation: 666, The Number of “The Beast” September 28, 2018
• Symbolism in Revelation: The Whore of Babylon September 26, 2018
• Overview of the Book of Revelation September 25, 2018
• Studying the Bible as Theology and/or History September 24, 2018
• How I Take Notes on What I Read for a Trade Book September 23, 2018
• How Do We Know When the Gospels Were Written? September 21, 2018
• Writing a Historical-Critical Textbook that Isn’t *Critical* September 20, 2018
• A Peculiar Story of Peter’s Martyrdom September 19, 2018
• Who *Was* the First Bishop of Rome? September 17, 2018
• Peter: First Bishop (Pope) in Rome? September 16, 2018
• Opportunity Knocking: A Chance to Read a Draft of My Book September 14, 2018
• Would the Disciples Die for A Lie? Proofs for the Resurrection. September 13, 2018
• Did Jesus Believe Sinners Would Be Annihilated? The Sheep and the Goats September 12, 2018
• Gehenna: Where You Do Not Want to Go September 10, 2018
• Jesus on Gehenna September 9, 2018
• Looking for Feedback on My Views about Jesus and the Afterlife September 7, 2018
• Did My Loss of Faith Affect my Scholarship? September 6, 2018
• Opening for Dinner in Durham September 4, 2018
• Thomas and His Identical Twin Jesus, in the Acts of Thomas September 4, 2018
• Jesus’ Twin Brother, Thomas September 3, 2018
• Progress Report on the Afterlife September 2, 2018
• Thomas, the Synoptic Gospels, and Q August 31, 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
• Proselytizing on the Blog August 22, 2018
• Our Knowledge of Gnosticism August 21, 2018
• What Was Discovered in the Nag Hammadi Library? August 20, 2018
• How the Gospel of Thomas Was Discovered August 19, 2018
• Finishing my Dissertation August 17, 2018
• The Core of My Dissertation on The Gospel Quotations of Didymus the Blind August 15, 2018
• Bruce Metzger and Me: Finding a Dissertation August 14, 2018
• Is 1 Clement Older than Some Books of the New Testament? August 13, 2018
• Did a “Pope” Write the First-Century Book of 1 Clement? August 12, 2018
• The Letter of First Clement: An Overview August 10, 2018
• Blog Dinner in Durham in September is Full! August 8, 2018
• Was Jesus Thought To Be a Miracle Worker in His Own Lifetime? August 8, 2018
• The Message of Jesus’ Miracles August 7, 2018
• Blog Dinners Next Month. Interested? August 6, 2018
• Is There Sarcasm in the New Testament? August 5, 2018
• Jesus and His Miracles: Some Interesting Features August 3, 2018
• Did the Original Gospels Describe Jesus’ Miracles? August 2, 2018
• More Free Memberships Available August 1, 2018
• More on the Historical Problem of Miracles July 31, 2018
• History is not the Past! Proving Jesus’ Resurrection and Other Miracles July 30, 2018
• My First Taste of Critical Scholarship July 29, 2018
• Upcoming Speaking Events, Fall 2018 July 27, 2018
• Did Peter Use a Secretary for his Writings? A Blast from the Past July 26, 2018
• Finishing my Work on the Afterlife July 24, 2018
• Traditions About Jesus that Are Probably Not Historical July 23, 2018
• How a Book Gets Its Title July 22, 2018
• The Trickiest Criterion for Determining What Happened in the Life of Jesus July 20, 2018
• An Important Criterion for Establishing What Actually Happened July 19, 2018
• Rules of Thumb for Reconstructing the History behind the Gospels July 17, 2018
• The Historian’s Wish List July 16, 2018
• What I Saw at St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai July 15, 2018
• Visiting the Monastery at Mount Sinai: A Blast From the Past July 14, 2018
• A Key Contradiction in the Birth Narratives July 12, 2018
• Are Matthew and Paul at Odds on the Most Important Issue? July 10, 2018
• Are the Gospels Principally Concerned to Show What Actually Happened? July 9, 2018
• Why Contradictions Matter for Understanding the Life of Jesus July 8, 2018
• Student Excuses: A Blast From the Past July 6, 2018
• The Historical Significance of Contradictions July 5, 2018
• Balancing the Scholarly and the Popular July 3, 2018
• The Broader Significance(s) of Contradictions July 2, 2018
• The Strangest Moment of My Teaching Career July 1, 2018
• If the Bible is Contradictory, How Can it Be Authoritative? June 29, 2018
• Are Contradictions the Real Point? June 27, 2018
• Internal Discrepancies in the Gospel of John June 26, 2018
• Why Does Luke Appear to Contradict Himself? June 25, 2018
• Sources for the Hebrew Bible: A Blast from the Past June 24, 2018
• Does Luke Flat Out Contradict Himself? June 22, 2018
• New Rules for Comments on the Blog June 21, 2018
• How I Write: The Crucial Phase June 19, 2018
• Does the Book of Acts Portray the *Teachings* of Paul Accurately? June 18, 2018
• Does the Book of Acts Accurately Portray the Life and Teachings of Paul? June 17, 2018
• Why I Am Obsessed with Jesus: A Blast from the Past June 15, 2018
• How Does an Author Write a Trade Book? Phase 2. June 14, 2018
• The Name Judas Iscariot: What Does It Mean? June 12, 2018
• Taking the Temperature of the Blog: June 2018 June 11, 2018
• Why Would I Call Myself Both an Agnostic and an Atheist? A Blast from the Past June 10, 2018
• Two Rather Bizarre Accounts of How Judas Died June 8, 2018
• Can We Know Anything Historically About How Judas Iscariot Died? June 7, 2018
• The Death of Judas in Matthew June 5, 2018
• Self-Reflection on The Process of Writing a Book June 4, 2018
• Why Did Judas Iscariot Betray Jesus? June 3, 2018
• Past and Present: One of My Debates with Dinesh D’Souza June 2, 2018
• Did the Gospels Originally Have Titles? May 31, 2018
• Non-Disclosure Agreements May 30, 2018
• What the New Fragment of Mark’s Gospel Looks like (the so-called First-Century Mark) May 28, 2018
• Did Jesus Do “Signs” To Prove Who He Was? A Blast from the Past May 27, 2018
• Doing Research for a Trade Book May 25, 2018
• We Do *NOT* Have a First-Century Copy of the Gospel of Mark May 24, 2018
• Why Didn’t the Gospel Writers Tell Us Who They Were? May 23, 2018
• Why Would an Ancient Author Write a Book Anonymously? May 22, 2018
• Why Are The Gospels Called Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? May 20, 2018
• Do We Know Why Jesus Went to Jerusalem? May 19, 2018
• The Tricks of Writing for a General Audience May 18, 2018
• How a Book Gets Written May 17, 2018
• Back in Business! May 16, 2018
• How I Write a Trade Book for a General Audience May 16, 2018
• Technology Challenge at the Beach May 15, 2018
• My Life! An Interview with Frank Statio on “The State of Things” May 13, 2018
• Does Paul Condemn Slavery? The Case of Philemon and Onesimus. May 11, 2018
• A Different First-Century Mark? An Interesting Piece of Sleuth Work May 10, 2018
• Why Would It Matter If There Were a First-Century Copy of Mark? May 9, 2018
• Bogus Christian Apologetics and a First-Century Fragment of Mark May 8, 2018
• Seeing Capernaum and the “Jesus Boat”: A Blast From the Past May 6, 2018
• Are Christians Intolerant? May 4, 2018
• When Christianity Became the “Official” Religion of Rome May 2, 2018
• Making Rome Pagan Again May 1, 2018
• The Beginning of the End of Paganism April 30, 2018
• Did Constantine Outlaw the Pagan Religions? April 29, 2018
• Fresh Air – Christianity’s Path From ‘Forbidden’ To A ‘Triumph’ April 26, 2018
• What It Takes to be a Graduate Student April 25, 2018
• The Different Terms for Literary Deception April 24, 2018
• Different Kinds of Literary Deceit April 23, 2018
• A Forger Fooled By Forgery April 22, 2018
• Additional Free Memberships Available April 20, 2018
• My Book on Literary Forgery April 20, 2018
• Some Academic Good News April 18, 2018
• My Testier Days: A Response to a Critique of How Jesus Became God April 17, 2018
• Q&A with Bart on The Heretic Happy Hour April 16, 2018
• Why Should Faith and the Afterlife Matter? Readers’ Mailbag April 15, 2018 April 15, 2018
• Jesus as God in the Synoptics: A Blast From the Past April 13, 2018
• Blog Lunch in Houston Thursday April 19? April 13, 2018
• Is There a Time and Place for Heaven and Hell? April 11, 2018
• The Thinking Atheist Interview: The Triumph of Christianity April 10, 2018
• Degrees of Punishment and Purgatory April 9, 2018
• Who Invented the Idea of a Suffering Messiah? April 8, 2018
• The Unforgivable Sin and Purgatory April 6, 2018
• The Sixth Anniversary of the Blog! April 4, 2018
• Making the Bestseller List April 3, 2018
• Did Jesus Teach About Purgatory? April 2, 2018
• An Easter Reflection 2018 April 1, 2018
• The First Intimation of Purgatory? March 30, 2018
• The Birth of Purgatory March 29, 2018
• The Martyr Perpetua and Her Estranged Family March 28, 2018
• The Martyrdom of Perpetua March 27, 2018
• Forgery Lecture March 26, 2018
• How Were Books Published in the Ancient World? March 25, 2018
• Ehrman & Licona: Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? Part 2 March 24, 2018
• The Miracle of New Life March 22, 2018
• The Marvels of Media Attention March 21, 2018
• Fresh Air Interview Tuesday March 20 March 19, 2018
• Jesus and My First Girlfriend: A Blast From The Past March 19, 2018
• Ehrman & Licona: Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? Part 1 March 18, 2018
• Scribes Who Injected the Idea of Atonement into Luke’s Gospel March 16, 2018
• What Happened at the Last Supper? A Textual Problem in Luke March 15, 2018
• The Golden Rule March 13, 2018
• Once More: The Interesting Text Called the Didache March 12, 2018
• A Privileged View of Suffering March 11, 2018
• My Scholarly Project on the Afterlife March 9, 2018
• My Upcoming Writing Plans: The Afterlife and the Afterlife March 8, 2018
• Why Women Came to be Silenced March 6, 2018
• The Surprising Understanding of Gender in the Ancient World March 5, 2018
• Reading The Triumph of Christianity at Quail Ridge Books March 4, 2018
• Early Christology: How I Changed My Mind March 2, 2018
• Futuristic Interpretations of the Book of Revelation March 1, 2018
• What Did Jesus Look Like? February 27, 2018
• Do We Know How Paul Died? February 26, 2018
• The Legend of Peter’s Martyrdom February 25, 2018
• My Interview with Michael Shermer February 23, 2018
• Pilate’s *Own* Account of Why He Crucified Jesus February 22, 2018
• The Ironies of Jesus’ Trial February 20, 2018
• The Increasing Innocence of Pilate in the Death of Jesus February 19, 2018
• Why Discrepancies Matter for Interpretation February 18, 2018
• Why Differences and Discrepancies Matter Theologically/Religiously February 16, 2018
• A Welcome Review of The Triumph of Christianity February 15, 2018
• Being Blindstruck by Triumph February 13, 2018
• The Conversion of Constantine February 12, 2018
• Beginning the Triumph of Christianity February 11, 2018
• How Was Jesus *Really* Born? The Proto-Gospel of James February 9, 2018
• Small Differences that Make a Difference February 7, 2018
• Jesus Kissing Mary Magdalene: A Blast From the Past February 6, 2018
• Do We KNOW the Original Words of the NT? February 5, 2018
• On Being Controversial February 4, 2018
• Do the Differences in Our Manuscripts Matter? February 2, 2018
• Conservative Reactions to Misquoting Jesus February 1, 2018
• Misquoting Jesus and My Fundamentalist Faith January 30, 2018
• Jesus and Paul: Similarities and Differences January 29, 2018
• What Is My Best Book for a General Audience? January 28, 2018
• Are Paul and Jesus on the Same Page? January 26, 2018
• Is Paul Given Too Much Credit? January 24, 2018
• Was Jesus Given Special Treatment? January 23, 2018
• Pilate, Who Never “Learned His Lesson” January 22, 2018
• Pontius Pilate: A Sensitive Guy…. January 21, 2018
• Illuminating Exercises: The Position Paper Assignments for My NT Greek Class January 20, 2018
• Was Paul a Misogynist? January 18, 2018
• Paul and His Female Disciple Thecla January 17, 2018
• Paul’s Views of Women January 16, 2018
• Pre-order Triumph of Christianity and Get Some Serious Perks!! January 15, 2018
• Request for Help! Your Favorite Podcasts. January 13, 2018
• Accessing the Bart Ehrman Blog Podcast January 12, 2018
• My Greek New Testament Course January 12, 2018
• The Blog Podcast January 11, 2018
• Were Cut and Paste Jobs Common in Antiquity? Guest Post by Brent Nongbri January 9, 2018
• More Cutting and Pasting? Paul’s Letter to the Philippians January 8, 2018
• Can Historians Be Neutral? January 7, 2018
• My Long Favorite Pauline Letter: Philippians January 5, 2018
• January Dinner Full! January 4, 2018
• February Dinner Full! January 4, 2018
• Speaking Engagements and Blog Dinners for January and February January 3, 2018
• Is 2 Corinthians *FIVE* Letters? January 2, 2018
• Did Romans Allow Jews to Bury Crucified Victims? Readers’ Mailbag January 1, 2018 January 1, 2018
• Year in Review 2017! December 31, 2017
• Are There Cut-and-Paste Jobs in the New Testament? The Case of 2 Corinthians December 30, 2017
• The Virgin Birth and the Gospel of John: A Blast from the Past December 28, 2017
• 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
• Christmas Reflection 2017 December 24, 2017
• Is the Christmas Story a Myth? December 23, 2017
• 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
• Blog Christmas Gift Idea #2: Gift Subscriptions December 18, 2017
• Blog Christmas Gift Idea #1! Free Memberships Still Available! December 18, 2017
• Managing the Time! Readers’ Mailbag December 17, 2017 December 17, 2017
• A Final Statement on a Different Approach to the Synoptic Problem: Evan Powell December 15, 2017
• Brief Reply to Garrow December 14, 2017
• Back Again: Did Matthew Use Luke? Alan Garrow’s Reply to Mark Goodacre December 13, 2017
• Did Matthew Copy Luke? Mark Goodacre’s Rebuttal December 12, 2017
• A $1000 Challenge to Me: Did the Author of Matthew Use Luke? December 11, 2017
• The Pope and the Lord’s Prayer December 10, 2017
• Is the Blog Meaningful for You? December 8, 2017
• Free Memberships for those Who Need Them! December 6, 2017
• A Very Strange Saying: From the Gospel of Peter? December 5, 2017
• The Exasperatingly Fragmentary Gospel of Peter: Readers’ Mailbag December 4, 2017 December 4, 2017
• Could Q Have Been Lost? Readers’ Mailbag December 3, 2017 December 3, 2017
• Last Minute: Dinner on Thursday? December 2, 2017
• Redaction Criticism of the Gospels December 1, 2017
• And Then There Was Q November 29, 2017
• Arguments for Markan Priority (that Mark was the first Gospel written) November 28, 2017
• Jesus’ Death and Resurrection in Mark: Another Blast from the Past November 27, 2017
• Mark’s Suffering Son of God: A Blast From the Past November 24, 2017
• Jesus in Mark: Who Knew? November 22, 2017
• The Women in Matthew’s Genealogy: Answer to a Reader November 21, 2017
• Jesus’ (Young?) Mother and (Half?) Brothers? The Proto-Gospel of James November 20, 2017
• Jesus’ Mother and Brothers in Mark November 19, 2017

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