Thank you for the quick reply. "as Mark 1:14 puts it, at some point “after John was put in prison,…
On John the Baptist: The Most Influential Religious Innovator in History by James McGrath (Part 1)
Great question! I actually wrote something for Ancient Jew Review on that very topic. To put it succinctly, Christmaker is…
On John the Baptist: The Most Influential Religious Innovator in History by James McGrath (Part 2)
The Gospel of John indicates a period of overlap between John and Jesus. While it reads later competition between Jesus'…
On John the Baptist: The Most Influential Religious Innovator in History by James McGrath (Part 1)
There is a lot of relatively recent connection of John the Baptist and the Knights Templar. There certainly were churches…
On John the Baptist: The Most Influential Religious Innovator in History by James McGrath (Part 1)
This view, that imagines people spent their time inventing new stories about supposedly historical individuals based on characters from earlier…
On John the Baptist: The Most Influential Religious Innovator in History by James McGrath (Part 1)
"What leads you to believe that Jesus immediately went back to Galilee?" My thoughts would be that it doesn't say…
On John the Baptist: The Most Influential Religious Innovator in History by James McGrath (Part 1)
Thanks for the guest post! I'm wondering how your two recent books about John the Baptist are related. Perusing their…
On John the Baptist: The Most Influential Religious Innovator in History by James McGrath (Part 2)
Hello, professor Ehrman. Recently I heard Dr.Dan McCellan say that a better translation of John 1 would be: In the…
On Is Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians Actually FIVE Letters?
Yes, one of the Mandaean emphases is baptism in living (flowing) water, and one of their major criticisms of Christianity…
On John the Baptist: The Most Influential Religious Innovator in History by James McGrath (Part 2)
There is a long history of thinking that John's wilderness was the desert, often assuming that it was more specifically…
On John the Baptist: The Most Influential Religious Innovator in History by James McGrath (Part 1)