Given the number of years between Jesus’s life and death and when stories were written down I think it’s probable…
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Robert M Price wrote a similar book titled: Secret Scrolls: Revelations from the Lost Gospel Novels. In it he goes…
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You have written in this thread “A prominent publication of the Jesus Seminar tells us: “The concept of plagiarism was…
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Bart, for what it's worth, I thought Jesus Before the Gospels was a fine book, and an important one for…
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Thank you, Prof. Ehrman, much appreciated!
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I know the apostles were illiterate but wonder if the Roman Room Method of memory retention could have been of…
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Hi Prof. Bart - I heard you make the same point as this post on your podcast today and found…
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Hi Dr.Ehrman, do you mean that the deadline is this Friday the 16th?
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Did any Church Father comment about gospels using another gospel as source, and if so, did they try to explain…
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I’m sort of a “cafeteria Catholic”, but I’ve long believed the Catholic Church could take a lesson from the Anglicans…
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