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• How Changing My Views Affected My Relationships September 17, 2017
• My Favorite Anecdote about Jesus and the Afterlife: Teeth Will Be Provided! September 15, 2017
• Controversy Sells! September 14, 2017
• My Major Anxiety for my Book. Are People Interested in the Afterlife? September 12, 2017
• Too Much Money and the Afterlife September 11, 2017
• What Did the Angels Tell the Shepherds? It Depends. Mailbag Sept. 10, 2017 September 10, 2017
• Fun with the Jewish Christian Gospels: A Blast from the Past September 8, 2017
• A Satirical Lesson about the Afterlife September 7, 2017
• Looking at Hell September 5, 2017
• Problems with Some Bible Translations, including the King James: A Blast from the Past September 4, 2017
• Speaking in Tongues and Virgin Births: Readers’ Mailbag September 3, 2017 September 3, 2017
• Life in Hades September 1, 2017
• The Body and Soul in Hades August 30, 2017
• The First Recorded Visit to the Realm of the Dead (in Western literature) August 29, 2017
• My Graduate Level New Testament Course August 28, 2017
• Journeys to Heaven and Hell: A Sketch of My Project August 27, 2017
• Could Moses Write Hebrew? August 25, 2017
• My New Scholarly Project August 24, 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
• 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
• 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
• A New Blog Podcast! August 11, 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
• How Women Came to Be Silenced in Early Christianity: A Blast From the Past August 4, 2017
• The Origins of Heaven and Hell August 3, 2017
• The First Apocalypse: The Book of Daniel August 1, 2017
• A New Attack on My Views July 31, 2017
• A New Genre in Jewish Antiquity: The Apocalypse July 30, 2017
• The Books of 1 and 2 Maccabees July 28, 2017
• Background to The Christian Afterlife: The Maccabean Revolt: A Blast from the (Recent) Past! July 27, 2017
• Lecture at Washington & Jefferson College July 26, 2017
• Threads and Comments on the Blog July 25, 2017
• Teaching Religion as an Agnostic July 23, 2017
• Was There a “Moment” When I Left the Faith? July 22, 2017
• Leaving the Faith July 19, 2017
• Growing into Unbelief July 19, 2017
• Apocalypticism in a Modern Idiom July 17, 2017
• Important Announcement about the Blog! July 16, 2017
• Did Paul Think Jesus’ Body Remained in the Grave? Mailbag July 14, 2017 July 14, 2017
• The Essence of Biblical Apocalyptic Thought July 13, 2017
• The Origins of Apocalypticism July 11, 2017
• Apologies to All Colombians July 11, 2017
• Explaining a Columbian Mudslide July 10, 2017
• The Variety of Views of Suffering in the Bible July 9, 2017
• Teaching about How The Bible Explains Suffering July 7, 2017
• Is Suffering Our Fault? July 5, 2017
• Am I an Agnostic or an Atheist? A Blast From the Past July 4, 2017
• Why Was Marcion Declared a Heretic? July 3, 2017
• Do I Need to Suffer Myself to Question Whether God Exists? July 2, 2017
• Why Not Believe in a Different Kind of God? June 30, 2017
• The Classic “Problem” of Suffering June 28, 2017
• Two Unsatisfactory Solutions to the Problem of Suffering June 27, 2017
• The Kind of Suffering that is a Problem June 26, 2017
• My Role in Editing My Most Important Book that No One Has Heard Of. June 25, 2017
• Why I Was Afraid to Become an Agnostic June 23, 2017
• Why Even Bother Being a Liberal Christian? June 22, 2017
• Was Jesus Made Up? A Blast from the Past. June 20, 2017
• How Biblical Discrepancies Can Be Theologically Liberating for a Christian June 19, 2017
• How Did Judas Iscariot Die? Readers’ Mailbag June 18, 2017 June 18, 2017
• A Very Different Portrayal of Jesus’ Death June 16, 2017
• How a Non-Historical Account Can Be Meaningful: The Death of Jesus in Mark June 15, 2017
• A New Way of Reading the Bible June 14, 2017
• How Can Paul Say that Jesus Appeared to “The Twelve”? June 12, 2017
• More of What I Believed When I Was a Committed (non-fundamentalist) Christian June 11, 2017
• What I Believed as a Committed but but non-Fundamentalist Christian June 10, 2017
• Can (or Should) We Change the Canon of Scripture? A Blast from the Past June 8, 2017
• Update on my Publication Plans June 7, 2017
• What I Came To Believe About the Bible June 6, 2017
• What Really Happened to Me: Demythologizing the New Testament June 5, 2017
• Why Have I Stopped Explaining How I Lost My Faith? Readers’ Mailbag June 4, 2017 June 4, 2017
• Why It Didn’t Happen that Way. The Stories of Jesus’ Birth June 2, 2017
• Another “True” Story that Didn’t Happen? Jesus’ Birth in Luke June 1, 2017
• Is Theological “Truth” More Important than Historical Accuracy? May 30, 2017
• An Example of a True Story that Didn’t Happen: Part 1 May 29, 2017
• Would I Be Personally Devastated if the Mythicists Were Right? A Blast From the Past May 28, 2017
• True Stories that Didn’t Happen May 26, 2017
• The Gospels as Myths May 24, 2017
• The Gospels as Natural Histories May 23, 2017
• The Gospels as Supernatural Histories May 22, 2017
• How Does A Book Become A Bestseller? Readers’ Mailbag April 21, 2017 May 21, 2017
• Can Myths Be True and Meaningful? May 19, 2017
• Appreciating the Myths of the Bible May 17, 2017
• Becoming a Non-Fundamentalist Christian May 16, 2017
• Fundamentalism and the Truth of the Bible May 15, 2017
• Eyewitnesses and the Gospels: A Blast From the Past May 14, 2017
• Finding More Problems in the Old Testament May 12, 2017
• Finding Problems in the Old Testament May 11, 2017
• How I First Realized There Are Mistakes in the Bible May 9, 2017
• My Resistance to Change at Princeton Seminary May 8, 2017
• My Encounter with the Enlightenment May 7, 2017
• Mythicists and the Virgin Birth: Readers’ Mailbag May 6, 2017 May 6, 2017
• What Happened Next: My Life After Moody Bible Institute May 4, 2017
• The Life Story I Tell My Students May 3, 2017
• Spilling the Beans on my Beliefs on the Last Day of Class May 2, 2017
• Can Teaching Be Objective? May 1, 2017
• The Text of the New Testament: Are the Textual Traditions of Other Ancient Works Relevant? A Blast From the Past April 30, 2017
• Teaching the Bible as a Historical Book April 28, 2017
• Teaching Religion in a Secular Environment April 26, 2017
• How We Got Our 27-Book New Testament: The Case of Didymus April 25, 2017
• My “Preparation” to Teach in a Secular Research Institution April 24, 2017
• About Graduate Studies: A Blast from the Past April 23, 2017
• Background to a Different View of the Afterlife: The Maccabean Revolt April 21, 2017
• Dinner With Me? A Blog Idea. April 20, 2017
• Job and the God Who Refuses To Answer April 18, 2017
• Was Job Really Innocent? April 17, 2017
• One Scholar’s Take on the Resurrection of Jesus: A Blast from the Past April 16, 2017
• Did David Exist? And When Did I Know I Lost My Faith? Mailbag April 15, 2017 April 15, 2017
• Job’s So-called Friends (With Friends Like These….) April 13, 2017
• Why I Find the Story of Job is Disturbing April 12, 2017
• Understanding the Story of Job April 11, 2017
• The Two Books of Job: A Blast from the Past April 10, 2017
• My Meditation Practice and Women at the Empty Tomb: Readers Mailbag April 9, 2017 April 9, 2017
• The Afterlife (or not) in Ecclesiastes April 7, 2017
• Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life April 5, 2017
• Life After Death According to Samuel April 4, 2017
• Our Fifth Year Anniversary! April 3, 2017
• Is Mark’s Gospel Unsophisticated? April 2, 2017
• Recent Manuscript Discoveries: A Blast from the Past March 31, 2017
• Returning from the Dead in the Hebrew Bible March 30, 2017
• The Afterlife in the Hebrew Bible: Sheol March 29, 2017
• Eternal Life and Damnation March 27, 2017
• Bart Ehrman & Robert Price Debate – Did Jesus Exist? March 26, 2017
• Questions on the Resurrection and My Personal Spiritual Experiences: Readers’ Mailbag March 24, 2017
• Another Gory Account of the Afterlife: The Apocalypse of Paul March 22, 2017
• Touring Hell: The Apocalypse of Peter March 21, 2017
• Does Jesus Claim to Be God in Mark? And My Former Converts. Mailbag March 19, 2017 March 19, 2017
• A Final Word (I Think!) on Group Visions March 17, 2017
• What Really Happens With Group Visions March 16, 2017
• Pastor Goranson, the Son of God, and I: A Blast From the Past March 14, 2017
• Are Group Visions Possible? March 13, 2017
• Group Visions and Agnostic Jesus Scholars: Mailbag March 12, 2017 March 12, 2017
• What I’m Thinking about the Afterlife March 10, 2017
• Does the Afterlife Matter for Other Things? March 8, 2017
• Me and Jesus March 7, 2017
• Why I Am Not A Christian March 6, 2017
• Why Do Good People Suffer? A Blast from the Past March 5, 2017
• Thinking about Hell March 3, 2017
• Views of the Afterlife March 1, 2017
• Moving to My Next Book February 28, 2017
• The First Textual Variant in the Gospel of Mark February 27, 2017
• Christians Who Thought Jesus Was Adopted by God: A Blast From the Past February 26, 2017
• Jesus’ Teaching in Aramaic and the Books of the Canon: Mailbag February 24, 2017 February 24, 2017
• An Interesting Scribal Change at the Beginning of Mark February 22, 2017
• How Variant Readings are Noted in the Greek New Testament February 21, 2017
• A Text That Doesn’t Exist! What Do NT Translators Actually Translate? February 20, 2017
• How Do We Know When the Gospels Were Written: A Mailbag Blast from the Past February 19, 2017
• The Gospel Truth: Sometimes A Little Hazy February 16, 2017
• The Standard Greek New Testament Today February 15, 2017
• What We Now Know about the Manuscripts of the New Testament February 14, 2017
• Free Memberships: Still Available! February 13, 2017
• My Work Habits the Letter allegedly by Jesus’ Own Brother: Mailbag 2/12/2017 February 12, 2017
• A Major Controversy in New Testament Textual Criticism February 10, 2017
• Better Editions of the Greek New Testament February 9, 2017
• Major Scribal Corruptions in the New Revised Standard Version February 7, 2017
• Responses to Misquoting Jesus: Readers’ Mailbag February 6, 2017
• Drew Marshall Show – Jesus Before The Gospels February 5, 2017
• The Ending of Mark in the King James Bible February 4, 2017
• The Woman Taken in Adultery in the King James Version February 1, 2017
• The Trinity in the King James Bible January 31, 2017
• Pressing Jeff Siker for Answers: An Intriguing Query and Response January 30, 2017
• Jeff Siker Part 2: Why I am a Christian (and yet a New Testament scholar): A Blast From the Past January 29, 2017
• Why He Is Still a Christian (And a Biblical Scholar): A Blast From the Past January 27, 2017
• Ehrman vs Craig: Evidence for Resurrection January 25, 2017
• Printing Errors in the King James Version January 24, 2017
• Does It Mean What It Says? More Problems with the King James January 23, 2017
• Problems with the Language of the King James Version January 22, 2017
• How Do We Know What “Most Scholars” Think? January 20, 2017
• Leading up to the King James Translation January 19, 2017
• Where Did the King James Bible Come From? January 18, 2017
• The First Greek New Testament January 17, 2017
• The Oldest Printed Versions of the Greek New Testament January 16, 2017
• My Problem(s) With Fundamentalism: A Blast from the Past January 14, 2017
• Can Biblical Scholars Be Historians? January 13, 2017
• What Text Are the Translators Translating? January 11, 2017
• What Do Translators Translate? January 10, 2017
• What About the Apocrypha? January 9, 2017
• Did the Council of Nicaea Take Away Reincarnation and Give us the Bible? January 8, 2017
• How We Got the New Testament (and not some other books!) January 6, 2017
• Why Did We Get a New Testament? January 5, 2017
• How We Got the Hebrew Bible January 3, 2017
• How We Got the Hebrew Bible: The Older View January 2, 2017
• What is the Hebrew Bible? January 1, 2017
• Looking Back on the Blog 2016 December 31, 2016
• The Copying of the Hebrew Bible December 29, 2016
• Manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible December 28, 2016
• Some Arduous Tasks for the New Revised Standard Version December 27, 2016
• Finishing the Work of a Translation December 26, 2016
• A Reflection on Christmas: Blast from the Past December 24, 2016
• Problems with Inclusive Language Bible Translation December 23, 2016
• The Marvels of our Universe December 22, 2016
• Important Blog Issues December 20, 2016
• Problems with Inclusive Language Translations December 20, 2016
• Inclusive Language in Bible Translations December 19, 2016
• Lost in Translation December 18, 2016
• My Work for the New Revised Standard Version Committee December 16, 2016
• Was Cephas Peter? The Rest of the Argument December 15, 2016
• Cephas and Peter in the Writings of Paul (Who Knew Them) December 14, 2016
• Lecture at Fresno City College December 13, 2016
• Are Cephas and Peter Two Different People? December 12, 2016
• A Different Interpretation of the Mischievous Boy, Jesus December 10, 2016
• Jesus the Superboy: A Blast From the Past December 9, 2016
• Free Memberships for those Who Need Them! December 8, 2016
• A Personal Transition December 7, 2016
• Finding Meaning in the Bible: More Responses to my Christmas Article December 5, 2016
• Is the New Testament Authentic? Readers’ Mailbag December 4, 2016 December 4, 2016
• Response to my Newsweek Article on Christmas December 2, 2016
• Gift Subscriptions, 2016!! December 1, 2016
• Newsweek Article on Christmas: Part 2 November 29, 2016
• Newsweek Article on Christmas: Part 1 November 28, 2016
• Looking Ahead to Christmas: A Blast from the Past November 27, 2016
• Improving the Blog 2016 November 26, 2016
• Personal Thoughts on Thanksgiving, 2016 November 24, 2016
• Jesus’ Private Teachings about the King of the Jews November 23, 2016
• Jesus’ Crucifixion as King of the Jews November 21, 2016
• The Apocalyptic Background to Jesus’ Messiahship November 20, 2016
• Why Would Jesus’ Disciples Think He Was The Messiah? November 18, 2016
• Jesus the Messiah Before the Resurrection November 17, 2016
• The Invention of a Crucified Messiah November 16, 2016
• Lost Gospels: The Greater Questions of Mary. A Blast From the Past November 14, 2016
• Misquoting Jesus Interview C-SPAN November 13, 2016
• Does Paul Know that Judas Betrayed Jesus? November 12, 2016
• Mythicists and the Crucified Messiah November 10, 2016
• Mythicists, Jesus, and the Messiah November 9, 2016
• What Is Gnosticism? A Blast from the Past November 7, 2016
• What If the Mythicists Were Right: Mailbag November 6, 2016 November 6, 2016
• Carrier and James the Brother of Jesus November 5, 2016
• James the Brother of the Lord November 4, 2016
• Paul’s Acquaintances: Jesus’ Disciples and Brother November 2, 2016
• Paul and the Historical Jesus November 1, 2016
• What Can We Do About Presuppositions? October 30, 2016
• Jesus, the Law, and a “New” Covenant Lecture October 29, 2016
• Gospel Evidence that Jesus Existed October 28, 2016
• The Gospels and the Existence of Jesus October 27, 2016
• Mythicists and the Stories Told of Jesus October 26, 2016
• My Milwaukee Mythicist Debate October 24, 2016
• The Best Manuscripts and Social Justice: Readers’ Mailbag October 23, 2016 October 23, 2016
• Mythicists: Did Nazareth Exist? October 21, 2016
• Did Jesus Exist? My Debate with Robert Price October 20, 2016
• Marcion as Alive and Well Among Us October 19, 2016
• The Arch-Heretic Marcion’s Theology October 18, 2016
• The “Arch-Heretic” Marcion, Jesus, and the Jewish Law October 16, 2016
• Why Don’t People See Discrepancies in the Bible? Readers’ Mailbag October 15, 2016 October 15, 2016
• Anti-Judaism in the Gospels: A Blast From the Past October 14, 2016
• Jesus and the Ten Commandments October 13, 2016
• Jesus, The Law, and the New Covenant October 12, 2016
• (Later) Early Christian Understandings of Heaven and Hell October 10, 2016
• Jesus and Paul on Heaven and Hell October 9, 2016
• Why Don’t I Call Myself a Christian? Mailbag: October 8, 2016 October 8, 2016
• The Invention of the Afterlife: Request for Ideas! October 6, 2016
• How I Learned To Write for a General Audience October 5, 2016
• Gerd Luedemann on the Resurrection: A Blast From the Past October 4, 2016
• The Inerrancy of the Bible? And Those Who Doubt. Readers’ Mailbag October 2, 2016 October 2, 2016
• The Process of Publishing a Book September 30, 2016
• Writing Books that Are Interesting and Important September 29, 2016
• Why Was the Emperor Worshiped? September 28, 2016
• Faith and History: A Blast From the Past September 26, 2016
• Debate with a Mythicist! And the Book of Revelation. Readers’ Mailbag September 25, 2016 September 25, 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
• Bart Ehrman vs. Michael Brown on Suffering September 19, 2016
• Fear of Dying etc.: Weekly Readers Mailbag, September 18, 2016 September 18, 2016
• The Divine Realm in Antiquity September 16, 2016
• The Rise of the Roman Empire September 15, 2016
• Arguments, Evidence, and Changing Your Mind September 14, 2016
• Bruce Metzger and My Loss of Faith: A Blast from the Past September 12, 2016
• Why Textual Criticism is “Safe” for Conservative Christians September 11, 2016
• The Charities We Support September 9, 2016
• Do Most Manuscripts Have the Original Text? September 8, 2016
• My Original Interest in Textual Criticism September 7, 2016
• Becoming a Textual Critic September 6, 2016
• Does James Contradict Paul? September 4, 2016
• How You Can Help! September 3, 2016
• Where Did the Trinity Come From? Video Lecture. September 2, 2016
• How I Discovered Textual Criticism August 31, 2016
• Learning to Teach at Moody August 30, 2016
• Moody Bible Boot Camp August 29, 2016
• Am I A Better Person as an Agnostic? A Blast from the Past August 28, 2016
• Were Jesus and His Followers Armed? August 26, 2016
• Beginning My Study of the Bible August 25, 2016
• My Original Passion for the Bible August 24, 2016
• Different Ways of Describing the Theology of the New Testament August 22, 2016
• How We’re Doing on the Blog August 21, 2016
• My Work as a Historian and Paul in Conflict with the Jerusalem Church: Readers’ Mailbag August 20, 2016 August 20, 2016
• Video of How Jesus Became God: Part 2 (of 3) August 19, 2016
• Another Approach to New Testament Theology August 18, 2016
• Studying New Testament Theology August 17, 2016
• Being Trained To Interpret Texts August 15, 2016
• Speaking in Churches as an Agnostic; and Jewish Beliefs about Afterlife. Readers Mailbag August 13, 2016 August 13, 2016
• Video of How Jesus Became God, Part 1 (of 3) August 12, 2016
• Why Scholars Aren’t Trained To Write Trade Books August 11, 2016
• What Do We Call It? Coming Up with a Book Title. August 9, 2016

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