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• Why Would Jesus’ Disciples Doubt the Resurrection? October 14, 2019
• More Free Memberships Available, 2019 October 13, 2019
• Crazy Things Textual Scholars Say October 13, 2019
• My Trip To Rome: Interested in Joining? October 12, 2019
• Did God Want Us To Have His Word? October 11, 2019
• What I think of the Bible as Both a Critical Scholar and A Christian: Guest Post by Judy Siker October 9, 2019
• Misconstruing My Words. Can We Know What the Authors of the New Testament Originally Said? October 8, 2019
• Modern Defenders of the Faith: Why Not Just Tell the Truth? October 7, 2019
• Who Wrote the Pentateuch? The JEDP Hypothesis October 6, 2019
• Blog Dinner in Chicago (Oct. 18): Full! October 4, 2019
• How Did We Get *These* 27 Books in the New Testament? October 4, 2019
• Blog Dinner, Chicago IL, Friday October 18 October 2, 2019
• How Can You Still Believe? Guest Post by Judy Siker October 2, 2019
• If the Old Testament is Not Accurate — Where Did Israel Come From? October 1, 2019
• Did The Israelites Really Conquer Canaan? September 30, 2019
• Is It Ever Right to Lie? Or Was It? Even in Early Christianity? The Relevance for Forgery. September 29, 2019
• Why It Is Hard To Publish a Translation of an Ancient Text September 29, 2019
• My Speaking Schedule for this Academic Year (so far) September 27, 2019
• Hey! Wanna Go With Me To Rome ? September 25, 2019
• A Recent Argument that Ancient Pseudepigraphy Was NOT Deceptive (or Meant to Be) September 24, 2019
• What Motivated Some Ancient Authors to Lie About Themselves? September 23, 2019
• My Approaching Birthday September 22, 2019
• How Many Books in the New Testament Were Forged? September 20, 2019
• Were Ancient Readers Interested in Detecting Forgeries? September 18, 2019
• My Lecture in Quebec: Did Ancient Authors Try To Deceive Their Readers? September 17, 2019
• A New and Important Book on the Bible September 16, 2019
• My Conference on Pseudepigraphy September 15, 2019
• Did the Exodus Happen? September 13, 2019
• Now: Literary Inconsistencies in the Old Testament September 11, 2019
• What About the Original *Old* Testament? September 10, 2019
• Some Pitfalls of Writing for a General Audience September 9, 2019
• Why Don’t More Scholars Write Trade Books? September 8, 2019
• How Did We Get Chapters and Verses? September 6, 2019
• A Readable Edition of the “Lost” (i.e. non-canonical) Gospels September 4, 2019
• The Scholarly Edition of the Apocryphal Gospels September 3, 2019
• Why It’s Hard to Publish a Translation: Blast from the Past September 2, 2019
• Can We Reconstruct the Entire New Testament from Quotations of the Church Fathers? September 1, 2019
• Did Superior Health Care Lead to the Dominance of Christianity? August 28, 2019
• On Producing a New Translation of Ancient Texts August 27, 2019
• My Two Books on Forgery August 26, 2019
• Writing Scholarly and Popular Books on the Same Topic August 25, 2019
• Does Isaiah 53 Predict Jesus’ Suffering and Death? August 23, 2019
• An Opening for the Blog Dinner NYC August 27 August 22, 2019
• Does Your Soul Go To Heaven? August 21, 2019
• An Alternative View of Suffering and the Idea of Resurrection August 20, 2019
• Resurrection from the Dead: Were Jews Influenced by Zoroastrianism? August 19, 2019
• Learning New Things August 18, 2019
• Blog Dinner for NYC Full! August 16, 2019
• Join Me In Egypt? Tour in October 2020! August 16, 2019
• Do You Need a Free Membership? August 16, 2019
• How Views of the Afterlife Changed August 14, 2019
• Who Has The Answer For a Happy Afterlife? August 13, 2019
• Last Minute (well, sort of): Another Blog Dinner Option. NYC, August 27 August 12, 2019
• An Ancient Author Trying to Justify His Deceit August 12, 2019
• A Christian Forger Caught in the Act August 11, 2019
• Blog Dinner in D.C.: Full! August 9, 2019
• Who Is The Enemy? August 9, 2019
• Some Very Strange Journeys to Heaven and Hell August 7, 2019
• Why Did the Author of James Claim to be James in Particular? August 6, 2019
• Blog Dinner, Washington DC. September 6, 2019 August 5, 2019
• Is the Author of James Rejecting Paul Himself? August 5, 2019
• Scribes Who Changed Their Texts on Purpose August 4, 2019
• The Close Connections of James and Paul August 2, 2019
• Is James Responding to Paul? July 31, 2019
• But WHY Doesn’t Torture Hurt?? Guest Post by Stephanie Cobb July 30, 2019
• My Current Research Projects, 7/2019 July 29, 2019
• Does James (the Book) Have the Same Concerns as James (the Man)? Part 2 July 28, 2019
• Does the Book of James Have the Same Concerns as the Historical James? July 26, 2019
• The Brother of Jesus and the Book of James July 24, 2019
• How Could Torture Not Hurt?? Guest Post by Stephanie Cobb July 23, 2019
• Could Most People Write in Antiquity? July 22, 2019
• Did James Write James? July 21, 2019
• Is History a Four-Letter Word? July 19, 2019
• Changing Your Mind. Or Not. July 17, 2019
• Did It Hurt to Be Martyred? The Surprising Answer. Guest Post by Stephanie Cobb. July 16, 2019
• Was James the Actual Brother of Jesus? July 15, 2019
• Is the Book of James Attacking the Teachings of Paul? July 14, 2019
• One of My Favorite Letters in the New Testament: The Book of James July 12, 2019
• Sad News From Larry Hurtado July 10, 2019
• The Legality, Morality, and Scandal of Acquiring Ancient Manuscripts: Guest Post by Jennifer Knust July 9, 2019
• Christian Manuscripts and Nazi Loot: Guest Post by Jennifer Knust July 8, 2019
• Tracking Down Stolen Manuscripts: Guest Post by Jennifer Knust July 7, 2019
• Heightened Opposition to Jews in Early Christianity July 5, 2019
• When Christians Went on the Attack Against Jews July 3, 2019
• Is the Qur’an More Reliable than the New Testament? July 2, 2019
• Why Was the World Created in 4004 BC? July 1, 2019
• Would You Be Willing To Donate a Membership? June 30, 2019
• Do You Need a Free Membership? June 30, 2019
• Is There a Way to Know if a Manuscript is the “Original”? June 28, 2019
• Flat-out Lies or Willful Ignorance. How Do They Get Away With It? June 26, 2019
• The Hobby Lobby, Biblical Manuscripts, and Academic Scandal June 25, 2019
• Finally! Now We Know. The “First-Century Copy” of Mark June 24, 2019
• Why Christians Needed an Old Testament: Pagan Attacks on the Faith June 23, 2019
• The Jewish Bible in the Gentile Churches June 21, 2019
• Feedback on the Blog? June 19, 2019
• Why Paul Did Not Write 2 Thessalonians: A Final Post June 18, 2019
• Does Paul Think the End is Coming Soon? Does 2 Thessalonians? June 17, 2019
• 2 Thessalonians as a Forgery? Does the Author “Write” Like Paul? June 16, 2019
• Is 2 Thessalonians a Forgery Based on 1 Thessalonians? June 14, 2019
• How “Jews” Became “Children of the Devil” in the New Testament June 12, 2019
• Should the Old Testament Even Be in the Bible? June 11, 2019
• When Were Matthew and Mark First Seen as Scripture: Guest Post on Papias by Stephen Carlson June 10, 2019
• 2 Thessalonians: When Scholars Began To Doubt It Was Authentic June 9, 2019
• Did Paul Really Write 2 Thessalonians? June 7, 2019
• Is There a “Best” Bible Translation Out There? A Blast from the Past June 5, 2019
• How Do We know When Manuscripts Were Written? Guest Post by Brent Nongbri June 4, 2019
• Is the Old Testament a Christian Book? June 3, 2019
• Why Do Christians Have an Old Testament? Another Trade Book. June 2, 2019
• The Blog Podcast: A Milestone! May 31, 2019
• God’s Library Part 1: Finding Ancient Christian Manuscripts in Egypt. Guest Post by Brent Nongbri May 28, 2019
• Interview for “Letters & Politics” on The Triumph of Christianity May 28, 2019
• An Official Copy of Jesus’ Death Sentence: Another Forgery? May 27, 2019
• 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
• Do My Biases Mean I *Have* to Find Contradictions? May 20, 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
• Judging the Debate! May 15, 2019
• When Did Jesus Become Sinless? May 14, 2019
• Did Jesus Go to India? A Modern Gospel Forgery. May 13, 2019
• Contradictions in the Gospels – Rev Matthew Firth’s Final Response May 12, 2019
• 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
• Early Christian Liars May 7, 2019
• Could Christian Forgers Justifying Lying? May 6, 2019
• Why Did Ancient Christian Forgers Commit Forgery? May 5, 2019
• Contradictions and Contradictions: Final Response to Matt Firth May 3, 2019
• Constantine and the Christian Faith: My Fourth Smithsonian Lecture May 2, 2019
• Death and the Meaning of Life April 30, 2019
• Similarities and Differences: Which Matter the Most? April 29, 2019
• Contradictions in the Gospels – Rev Matthew Firth’s Second Response April 28, 2019
• Paul in Hell. The Apocryphal Apocalypse of Paul. April 26, 2019
• Papias and the Writers of the New Testament: Guest Post by Stephen Carlson April 25, 2019
• Why Did Christianity Take Over the World? Smithsonian Lecture 3. April 23, 2019
• Are These Really Contradictions? My Response to Matt Firth April 22, 2019
• The Radical Implications of the Resurrection April 21, 2019
• Why Are the Gospels Anonymous? April 19, 2019
• Contradictions in the Gospels – Rev Matthew Firth’s Response April 16, 2019
• Contradictions in the Gospels April 16, 2019
• What Is a Contradiction? April 15, 2019
• Who Were The “Pagans” Christians Were Converting? April 14, 2019
• A Papias Mystery: What Was the Book He Wrote? Guest Post by Stephen Carlson April 12, 2019
• Fund Raising Event on the Blog: Contradictions in the Gospels?? April 10, 2019
• Enoch’s Vision of the Realms of the Dead April 9, 2019
• Christianity’s Most Important Convert: Lecture at the Smithsonian April 8, 2019
• Jesus “Only” Adopted to be the Son of God? April 7, 2019
• Papias. How Do We Know His Context? Guest post by Stephen Carlson April 5, 2019
• The Writings of Papias: Guest Post by Stephen Carlson April 4, 2019
• A Blog Anniversary! Seven Years! April 3, 2019
• Revelation as a Blueprint for our Future April 1, 2019
• April 1, 2019
• My Very First Post: Do Textual Variants Matter?? March 31, 2019
• The Odd Modern Way of Reading the Book of Revelation March 29, 2019
• A Roman Vision of Heaven and Hell March 27, 2019
• Did Ancient Greeks Invent Heaven and Hell? March 26, 2019
• Armageddon and American Politics March 25, 2019
• Did Jesus Pray “Father Forgive Them” from the Cross? March 24, 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
• Pilate Released Barabbas. Really?? March 17, 2019
• 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
• Do Any Ancient Jewish Sources Mention Jesus? Weekly Mailbag March 10, 2019
• The Original Obsession with Trips to the Afterlife March 8, 2019
• My Next Scholarly Book: Visits to Heaven and Hell March 6, 2019
• Heaven and Hell, Finally March 5, 2019
• Homosexuality and the New Testament. Guest Post by Jeff Siker. March 4, 2019
• Homosexuality in the Bible (and the Christian Church) March 3, 2019
• University Professors and their Research March 1, 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
• Non-Christian Sources for Jesus: An Interview with History.com February 24, 2019
• If the Quest for the Historical Jesus Failed… What Then? February 22, 2019
• The Death Knell for the Study of the Historical Jesus February 20, 2019
• Wrede’s Revolutionary Claim about the “Messianic Secret” February 19, 2019
• Is It Plausible that Jesus Kept the Whole Thing a Secret?? February 18, 2019
• Why Textual Criticism Seemed to Be on Death’s Door February 17, 2019
• Who CARES if Mark was the First Gospel Written? February 15, 2019
• Editorial Fatigue in Luke: More from Blog Guest Mark Goodacre February 13, 2019
• A New Argument that Mark Was the First Gospel (Editorial Fatigue): Guest Post by Mark Goodacre! February 12, 2019
• Pursuing My Passion for Textual Criticism February 11, 2019
• On Being Just a Textual Critic February 10, 2019
• Mark: The First Gospel in 19th Century Research February 8, 2019
• The Beginning of the Quest of the Historical Jesus February 7, 2019
• Mark’s Central Focus on Jesus’ Death February 5, 2019
• How No One Understands Jesus in Mark’s Gospel February 4, 2019
• How Do We Explain the Messianic Secret? February 3, 2019
• Guest Post! Joel Marcus on His New Book on the John the Baptist February 1, 2019
• 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
• Don’t Trust What You Read! January 28, 2019
• How Do We Know What Was Originally in the Apocalypse of Peter? January 25, 2019
• How Does A Book Actually Get Published? January 23, 2019
• If Jesus Wasn’t God, Was He Necessarily Either a Calloused Liar or a Raving Lunatic? January 22, 2019
• Was Jesus A Great Moral Teacher? A Blast From the Past January 21, 2019
• Readers’ Mailbag 1/20/2019: The Only Story of Jesus as a Boy in the New Testament January 20, 2019
• The Dangers of Fundamentalism January 18, 2019
• Your Thoughts on the Blog? January 17, 2019
• Does Eternal Punishment Even Make Sense? January 15, 2019
• Eternal Torment Even for Christians? January 14, 2019
• What *Greek* Version of the New Testament Do I Use? January 13, 2019
• The Happy News! No One Stays In Hell! January 11, 2019
• Did Early Christians Believe in Reincarnation? January 9, 2019
• Did We Exist Before We Were Born? January 8, 2019
• Does Everyone Get Saved in the End? January 7, 2019
• Fundamentalist Arguments Ad Absurdum about the “Original” Text of the NT January 6, 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
• My Research Goals for 2019 January 1, 2019
• Blog Year in Review, 2018 December 31, 2018
• Were There *Other* Virgin Births in Antiquity? December 30, 2018
• Was Jesus Born of a Virgin in the Gospel of John? December 28, 2018
• Does Mark’s Gospel Actually *Deny* the Virgin Birth? December 27, 2018
• Christmas Reflection 2018 December 25, 2018
• The Gospel of Luke without a Birth Story December 24, 2018
• Did Luke Originally Tell the Birth Story? December 23, 2018
• Last Minute Christmas Presents!! December 22, 2018
• The Virgin Birth in Matthew and Luke December 21, 2018
• Was the Apocalypse of Peter Originally Part of the New Testament? December 19, 2018
• How Would an Early Christian “Know” Which Books Peter Wrote? December 18, 2018
• The Books of Peter December 17, 2018
• Jesus’ Birth in Matthew and Luke: A Study in Contrasts December 16, 2018
• Jesus’ Birth as “The Fulfillment of the Prophecies” December 14, 2018
• The Birth of Jesus in Matthew December 12, 2018
• 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

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