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Heaven and Hell in a Nutshell December 15, 2019
Why Would an Agnostic-Atheist Be A Bible Scholar?? December 13, 2019
Update on My Next Book: The Joys of Academic Writing December 12, 2019
Why Are Their Differences in the Gospels? Does it Affect Their Inspiration? Guest Post by Mike Licona December 10, 2019
Do You Want (and Need) a Free Membership to the Blog? Gift Memberships 2019 December 9, 2019
Would You Be Willing To Give a Gift Membership (or more)? December 9, 2019
Does the New Testament Condemn “Homosexuals”? December 8, 2019
One of the Blog’s Main Charities: Urban Ministries of Durham December 6, 2019
An Older Manuscript Controversy about the Dead Sea Scrolls December 4, 2019
Final Tribute To Larry Hurtado December 3, 2019
Is the Bible Inerrant? Guest Post by Mike Licona December 2, 2019
Why Don’t You Just Believe? December 1, 2019
Who Was Jesus? November 29, 2019
Thanksgiving 2019 November 27, 2019
Setting Dates for the Gospels November 26, 2019
The Annual Meeting of Biblical Scholars, and ALL Those Books!! November 25, 2019
Jesus and Sexual Immorality November 24, 2019
Maybe Jesus DOES Talk about “Homosexuality”? November 22, 2019
Do Textual Variants Actually *Matter* For Much?? November 21, 2019
Introduction to the Manuscripts of the New Testament November 19, 2019
Two More Openings for Blog Dinner in Durham, December 3. Interested? November 18, 2019
How Did We Get The 27 Books of the New Testament? November 18, 2019
Is the Bible Inspired by God? Guest Post by Evangelical Apologist Mike Licona November 17, 2019
Jesus and “Homosexuality” November 15, 2019
The Gospel of Thomas and the Other Gospels November 13, 2019
The Coming Armageddon: I Need Some Suggestions! November 12, 2019
Are Same-Sex Relations Condemned in the Old Testament? November 11, 2019
A Synopsis of Each New Testament Book November 10, 2019
Blog Fund-Raising Dinner, December 3 November 8, 2019
One C. S. Lewis Writing I Relate To November 7, 2019
What Is the New Testament? A Broad Overview November 5, 2019
Losing *Your* Faith? November 4, 2019
Sex and Gender in the Ancient World November 4, 2019
Why I’m To Be Pitied for Being the Wrong *Kind* of Fundamentalist! November 3, 2019
Christian Pastors Who Have Lost Their Faith November 1, 2019
Women Are To Be Silent and Submissive! October 30, 2019
Why Women Are To Be Subservient to Men October 29, 2019
What Does the Name Judas “Iscariot” Mean? October 28, 2019
Video Debate with Peter Williams: Can We Trust the Gospels October 27, 2019
The Quest for the Historical … Judas Iscariot October 25, 2019
Can My Undergraduate Students Continue Believing the Bible is Inerrant? October 24, 2019
Who Would Invent the Story of Women at the Tomb?? October 22, 2019
A New Way of Explaining Contradictions in an “Inerrant” Bible October 21, 2019
Modern Evangelical Christian Apologetics October 20, 2019
Why Was Jesus Crucified? October 18, 2019
But the Women Who Did *NOT* Doubt the Resurrection October 16, 2019
Startling and Disturbing Development Involving Manuscripts at the Museum of the Bible October 15, 2019
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

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