Complete Post Archive in List Format
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- Materialism, Personal Identity, and Resurrection: Part 2 – Platinum Post by Dennis J. Folds, Ph.D. (2/10/2025)
- Was Mark Really Written First? The Arguments for “Markan Priority” (2/9/2025)
- Gospel Problems: Does Matthew Ever “Correct” Mark? (2/8/2025)
- Materialism, Personal Identity, and Resurrection: Part 1 – Platinum Post by Dennis J. Folds, Ph.D. (2/7/2025)
- Why Assume the Synoptic Gospels Were COPYING One Another (and Other Sources)? (2/6/2025)
- The Synoptic Problem: Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Who’s Zoomin Who? (2/5/2025)
- Bart Ehrman and Kevin Grant – The Apocalypse: Literal or Metaphor? (2/4/2025)
- Is the Gospel of Luke Anti-Jewish? (2/2/2025)
- The Gospel of Luke: For Further Reading (2/1/2025)
- Gold Q&A for February! (1/30/2025)
- The Gospel of Luke: Who Wrote It? When? And Why? (1/30/2025)
- The Gospel of Luke in a Nutshell (1/29/2025)
- Mark’s Messianic Secret (1/28/2025)
- The Gospel of Mark: For Further Reading (1/26/2025)
- The Gospel of Mark: Who, When, and Why (1/25/2025)
- The Gospel of Mark in a Nutshell (1/23/2025)
- The Flukes of Life: How I Almost Never Became a Professor (1/22/2025)
- Was (the author of ) Matthew Really a Jew? (1/21/2025)
- The Gospel of Matthew: For Further Reading (1/19/2025)
- The Gospel of Matthew: Who, When, and Why? (1/18/2025)
- The Gospel of Matthew in a Nutshell (1/16/2025)
- Rambling Meditations on What It Means to Exist…. What Do You Think? (1/15/2025)
- The New Testament Gospels in a Nutshell (1/14/2025)
- What Is The New Testament? Can You Actually Say? (1/12/2025)
- Seats Still Available! Blog Dinner in Tampa this Friday (January 17) (1/11/2025)
- Do You Understand the Entire New Testament? Announcing My New Blog Thread (1/11/2025)
- Other Critical Approaches to the New Testament (by Prof. Shaily Patel) (1/9/2025)
- Getting the Bible Digitally (by Jeffrey Siker) (1/8/2025)
- Was Mark the First Gospel? Evidence for “Markan Priority” (1/8/2025)
- Blog Dinner in Tampa Fl. Friday January 17. You Interested? (1/8/2025)
- Did Christians Invent the Idea of “Atonement” / “Vicarious Suffering”? (1/7/2025)
- Was There No Room in the “Inn” or in the “Guestroom”? And Doesn’t Caesar Augustus Himself Describe His Census? More Questions from Readers (1/5/2025)
- Was Jesus from “Israel”? Did Jesus “Pre-exist”? Answers to Readers Questions (1/4/2025)
- Finding Value in Writings You Don’t “Believe” (In response to my Newsweek article on Christmas) (1/2/2025)
- 2024: Ehrman Blog Year in Review (12/31/2024)
- Did Jesus Come to Bring Peace? (12/30/2024)
- A Matching Grant for our End of the Year Giving 2024: Consider the Blog and Its Mission! (12/28/2024)
- Being Consistently Critical (In the Good Sense) (12/28/2024)
- January 2025 Gold Q&A (12/26/2024)
- Approaching the New Testament Historically (12/26/2024)
- Twelve Days of Christmas Day 12: My Article on Christmas in Newsweek: Part 2 (12/24/2024)
- Twelve Days of Christmas Day 11: My Article on Christmas in Newsweek Part 1 (12/23/2024)
- Twelve Days of Christmas Day 10: What Can We Know About Jesus’ Birth? (12/22/2024)
- Twelve Days of Christmas Day 9: A Key Contradiction in the Birth Narratives of Jesus (12/21/2024)
- Twelve Days of Christmas Day 8: Why Was Jesus Born of a Virgin in Matthew and Luke? (12/20/2024)
- Twelve Days of Christmas Day 7: The Birth of Jesus in Luke (12/19/2024)
- Twelve Days of Christmas Day 6: Why Does Matthew Have the Story of the “Wise Men”? (12/18/2024)
- Twelve Days of Christmas Day 5: Matthew’s Version of the Birth of Jesus (12/17/2024)
- Twelve Days of Christmas Day 4: O Little Town of Nazareth? (12/16/2024)
- Twelve Days of Christmas Day 3: A Different Account of Joseph and Mary! (12/15/2024)
- Twelve Days of Christmas Day 2: The Myth of the First Christmas (12/14/2024)
- A Cruise This Summer: From Athens to Venice. Interested? (12/13/2024)
- Twelve Days of Christmas Day 1: From a Historical View (12/13/2024)
- The Hobby Lobby, the Museum of the Bible, and Incredible Academic Fraud (12/11/2024)
- The Low-Down on That First-Century Gospel of Mark (12/10/2024)
- Final Reflections on Mummy Masks and Manuscripts (12/8/2024)
- A True Expert Speaks About Mummy Masks and Papyri (12/7/2024)
- Annual Appeal 2024: Behind the Mission Pt. 1 (12/6/2024)
- Can We Defend Destroying Mummy Masks? (12/5/2024)
- Destroying Mummy Masks (12/4/2024)
- Readers’ Questions and My Responses (11/2024) (12/3/2024)
- Special Webinar Announcement: Ehrman Blog Annual Appeal (12/1/2024)
- Jewish Disagreements About the Afterlife: Pharisees and Sadducees (12/1/2024)
- Jewish Sects at the Time of Jesus: The Essenes and the Fourth Philosophy (11/30/2024)
- Jewish Sects in the time of Jesus: Pharisees and Sadducees (11/28/2024)
- Judaism 200 Years Before Jesus: The Maccabean Revolt (11/27/2024)
- How to be Content with Life Even When It’s Rotten: The Stoic View (11/26/2024)
- How Not To Be Bothered When Bad Things Happen: The Stoics (11/24/2024)
- Does this World Make Any Sense? The Ancient Stoics (11/23/2024)
- Platinum Webinar for December: Topic TBD (11/21/2024)
- Intriguing Questions and Attempted Answers! (11/21/2024)
- December 2024 Gold Q&A – Get Your Questions Answered! (11/20/2024)
- Isn’t It Good Enough to Help Family, Friends, and Community? (11/20/2024)
- How Can We Be Happy? An Age-Old Question. (11/19/2024)
- New Interview on Agnosticism (11/18/2024)
- What Do You Really Want in Life? And How is that Related to Altruism? (11/17/2024)
- Brief Reflections on Time and the Meaning of Life. What Do You Think? (11/16/2024)
- How Do We Explain Human Moral Codes: So Similar Yet So Different? (11/14/2024)
- How I Begin My Book on Jesus, Ethics, and Altruism (11/13/2024)
- Another Reason for Thinking Jesus Called Himself the Messiah (11/12/2024)
- Blog Fundraiser: The Origins of Altruism Pre-Publication Manuscript Sneak Peek (11/11/2024)
- Could Moses Have Been Thutmose, the Overseer of Borderlands? Platinum Post by Serene (11/11/2024)
- Why Should We Think Jesus Called Himself the Messiah? (11/10/2024)
- Albert Schweitzer and the Apocalyptic Jesus (11/9/2024)
- Jerusalem Through the Ages! Interested in an Expert Discussion? (11/8/2024)
- An Imagined Dialogue for the Dispute Between Paul & Barnabas in Acts Part 4 by Angus Nisbet (11/8/2024)
- What Would an Apocalyptic Jew (Jesus!) Mean By Calling Himself Messiah? (11/7/2024)
- Can We Know What Jesus Said About Himself? (11/6/2024)
- Take My New Testament Pop Quiz! (11/5/2024)
- November Gold Q&A: Ask Your Questions! (11/4/2024)
- An Imagined Dialogue for the Dispute Between Paul & Barnabas in Acts Part 3 by Angus Nisbet (11/4/2024)
- Island Hopping with History: Join Our Greek Odyssey this May! (11/3/2024)
- Would the Resurrection Make Anyone Believe Jesus Was the Messiah? (11/2/2024)
- An Imagined Dialogue for the Dispute Between Paul & Barnabas in Acts Part 2 by Angus Nisbet (11/1/2024)
- A Particular Problem with a Crucified Messiah (10/31/2024)
- Paul and the Crucified Messiah in 1 Corinthians (10/30/2024)
- Why Would A Christian Author Lie About Who He Was? (10/29/2024)
- Blog Etiquette in These Troubling Times! (10/28/2024)
- An Imagined Dialogue for the Dispute Between Paul & Barnabas in Acts Part I by Angus Nisbet (10/28/2024)
- Forged Books, Anonymous Books, and The Use of Secretaries as Authors in the NT (10/27/2024)
- Unexpected Social Agendas in the New Testament. Who Woulda Thought? (10/26/2024)
- Jesus as God in the New Testament (10/24/2024)
- Oral Traditions and the Dates of Our Gospels (10/23/2024)
- Why CAN’T the Hard Problems Have Simple Answers? (10/22/2024)
- October 2024 Gold Q&A Replay (10/21/2024)
- Suffering. Is It Really Worth Talking About? Doesn’t the Bible Give the Right Answer? (10/20/2024)
- Doesn’t “Free Will” Explain Suffering? (10/19/2024)
- New Course by Bart Ehrman: The Genius of the Acts of the Apostles (10/17/2024)
- The Problem of Suffering? So What’s the Problem? (10/17/2024)
- How Can We Imagine That God is Active in Our World? (A genuine, not rhetorical, question) (10/16/2024)
- Hurricanes, Suffering, And My Loss of Faith (10/15/2024)
- And Yet Other Apocrypha: 2 Maccabees and Others, Including Psalm 151! (10/13/2024)
- October Gold Q&A – Get Your Questions Answered! (10/12/2024)
- Still More Books of the Apocrypha: Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, and Baruch (10/12/2024)
- Some More of the OT Apocrypha: the Letter of Jeremiah, Additions to Daniel, and 1 Maccabees (10/10/2024)
- Platinum Webinar for October: “The Literacy of Jesus: Could the Christian Savior Read and Write?” (10/9/2024)
- Some of the Old Testament Apocrypha: Tobit, Judith, and Additions to Esther (10/9/2024)
- Introducing the Old Testament Apocrypha (10/8/2024)
- Was the Apocalypse of Peter Originally Considered Part of the New Testament? (10/6/2024)
- The First Ancient Christian List of the Books (allegedly) of the New Testament (10/5/2024)
- Was the New Testament Canon Really Closed in 367 CE? (10/3/2024)
- Special Webinar Announcement: Hurricane Helene Fundraiser (10/2/2024)
- Finding All the Earliest Christian Texts in One Place (10/2/2024)
- Why Were Some of the Earliest Christian Books Left OUT of the NT? (10/1/2024)
- ALL the Christian Writings of the First Hundred Years (9/29/2024)
- Some Interesting Random Questions (9/28/2024)
- Platinum Webinar: Could Jesus Read and Write? (9/26/2024)
- A PROOF of the Resurrection of Jesus. What Do YOU Think? (9/26/2024)
- More About My Book “Did Jesus Exist” (9/25/2024)
- My Book “Did Jesus Exist” (an answer to the mythicists) (9/24/2024)
- Paul and the Anachronistic Origins of Early Christianity – Part 2 by Dr. Robyn Faith Walsh (9/22/2024)
- Paul and the Anachronistic Origins of Early Christianity – Part 1 by Dr. Robyn Faith Walsh (9/21/2024)
- Gold Q&A: Ask Your Questions! (9/20/2024)
- Can We Get Rid of Our Presuppositions? (9/19/2024)
- Jesus, the Law, and a New Covenant (Lecture) (9/18/2024)
- Why Don’t Pastors Teach What They Know about the Bible? (9/17/2024)
- New Insights Into Paul! Conference this Weekend! Wanna Come?? (9/16/2024)
- Major Contradictions (and Other Problems) in the Old Testament (9/15/2024)
- Critical Problems With the Bible, in a Nutshell (9/14/2024)
- What Seminarians Learn About the Bible (Often to Their Surprise) (9/12/2024)
- Jesus Interrupted: My Most Thorough Explanation of Critical Scholarship on the New Testament (9/11/2024)
- How Many of Those Early Christians Could Read? (9/10/2024)
- Special Gold Members Event: A Live AMA (Ask Me Anything) (9/9/2024)
- The Quest for the Historical Paul: Sorting Through Our Sources (Part 2) by Dr. James Tabor (9/8/2024)
- The Quest for the Historical Paul: Sorting Through Our Sources (Part 1). Guest Post by James Tabor (9/7/2024)
- The Next Ten Commandments Platinum Guest post by Douglas Wadeson MD (9/6/2024)
- How Strikingly Few Early Churches Were There? How Amazingly Many Christian Letters? (9/5/2024)
- Were Christians Statistically Insignificant in the First 200 years? (9/4/2024)
- Exaggerating the Numbers of Early Christians (9/3/2024)
- New Insights into the New Testament 2024: A Conference you DON’T Want to Miss!! (9/2/2024)
- If You’re Counting Christians, Who Counts as a Christian? (9/1/2024)
- How Many Christians Were There in 100 CE? 150? 250? 300? (8/31/2024)
- How Many Early Christians Were There and When? Crunchin’ the Numbers (8/29/2024)
- How Fast Did Early Christianity Grow? Doing the Math (8/28/2024)
- Major Change on the Blog! Announcing our New CEO: Jen Olmos (8/27/2024)
- The Conversion of the Emperor Constantine (8/27/2024)
- Heartache and Loss: When a Religion is Destroyed (8/25/2024)
- Was Christianity Bound to Take Over the Ancient World? (8/24/2024)
- Losing Your Religion: Today and in Antiquity (8/22/2024)
- Did Jesus Have Secret Disciples Among the Elite? (8/21/2024)
- A (Modern-Discovered) Gospel That Shows Jesus Was Married With Children? (8/20/2024)
- Jesus’ Followers in History and Legend (8/18/2024)
- My Book on Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene (8/17/2024)
- My Edition of the Apostolic Fathers (8/15/2024)
- The Reliability of Eyewitnesses and Abraham Lincoln’s Watch (8/14/2024)
- How I Almost Published “Lost in Transmission” (8/13/2024)
- July 2024 Platinum webinar video (8/12/2024)
- Misquoting Jesus and My Fall From Fundamentalism (8/11/2024)
- How Scholarship Changed My Life (8/10/2024)
- Why I Wrote Misquoting Jesus (8/8/2024)
- Interested in Textual Criticism? Probably My Most Useful (Edited) Book (8/7/2024)
- Women and Gender: Early Christianity in a Patriarchal World (8/6/2024)
- August Gold Q&A–Get Your Qs In! (8/5/2024)
- Competing Interpretations of Scripture in the Early Church (8/4/2024)
- Ancient Ways of Interpreting Scripture (8/3/2024)
- Does Paul Have Contradictory Views of the Law, Love, and Salvation? (8/1/2024)
- Salvation, Love, and the Jewish Law in Paul. Are His Views Internally Coherent? (7/31/2024)
- Did the Roman Government Become More “Moral” Once it Became Christian? (7/30/2024)
- More Major Issues Confronting the Early Christians. (7/28/2024)
- Major Issues in the Earliest Christian Centuries (In my Book After the New Testament) (7/27/2024)
- My Most Helpful Book? After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity (7/25/2024)
- Not a Game-Changer? Why I’d Still Be Thrilled to Have a First-Century Gospel Fragment (7/24/2024)
- How Would a First-Century Fragment of the Gospels Actually Change What We Know/Think? (7/23/2024)
- Would It Matter if We DID Have a First-Century Manuscript of Mark? (7/21/2024)
- More on the Initial Debacle on First-Century Mark (in relation to the Dead Sea Scrolls) (7/20/2024)
- The Parables! Have You Signed up for the Course? (This weekend!) (7/18/2024)
- The Debacle Over the First-Century Copy of Mark (7/18/2024)
- What If Another Christianity Had Won? (7/17/2024)
- More Lost Christianities (7/16/2024)
- Lost Christianities (7/14/2024)
- More Lost Scriptures (7/13/2024)
- A Remembrance of John Shelby Spong–Platinum Post By Ray Zubler (7/12/2024)
- ANOTHER Blog Dinner! Thursday, July 18, Wimbledon. Interested? (7/11/2024)
- Lost Scriptures (7/11/2024)
- June Gold Q&A Video (7/10/2024)
- My First Trade Book: Jesus, Apocalyptic Prophet (7/10/2024)
- How Can We Possibly Know a Scribe’s Intentions? My Most Important Theoretical Reflection (7/9/2024)
- Free Lecture on Paul’s Life and Letters, Thursday (July 11) (7/8/2024)
- The Evolution of Jewish Monotheism–Platinum Post By Daniel Kohanski (7/8/2024)
- Are Scribes of Texts Actually Authors? (7/7/2024)
- The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, 2nd edition (7/6/2024)
- July Gold Q&A: Your Turn (7/5/2024)
- Does God Have Chromosomes? Guest Post by Douglas Wadeson, MD (7/4/2024)
- Did People Have Time for Jesus? – Guest Post from Platinum Member Doug Wadeson, MD. (7/3/2024)
- Platinum Webinar July 6 (7/2/2024)
- Finishing and Publishing My Dissertation (7/2/2024)
- How I View the Bible as Both a Critical Scholar and a Christian: Guest Post by Judy Siker (6/30/2024)
- Is It Possible To Continue Believing? Guest Post by New Testament Scholar Judy Siker (6/29/2024)
- The Reason for Detailed Work on Textual Criticism (6/27/2024)
- May Gold Q&A Video (6/26/2024)
- My First Book! A Dissertation on Textual Criticism of the New Testament (6/26/2024)
- The Arch-Heretic of Them All? Simon of Samaria — Guest Post From Dr. David Litwa (6/25/2024)
- NEW COURSE! “The Parables of Jesus” with Amy-Jill Levine (6/24/2024)
- Does Altruism Even Exist? Some Personal Reflections Based on a Crazy Anecdote (6/23/2024)
- The New Book I’m Writing About Altruism: Putting It In a Nutshell (6/22/2024)
- Can You Disprove the Existence of God? (6/20/2024)
- Toe-to-Toe with Evangelical New Testament Scholar Peter Williams: Can We Trust the Gospels? (6/19/2024)
- An Early Christian Advocate of Licentious Living? Carpocrates — Guest Post by Dr. David Litwa (6/18/2024)
- June Gold Q&A: Whaddya Wanna Know? (6/17/2024)
- Platinums! Time to Upvote a Platinum Post! (6/17/2024)
- A Debate with Peter Williams on Textual Variants (6/16/2024)
- Why Textual Variants Matter Even for Those Who Do NOT Think the Bible is Infallible (6/15/2024)
- Why Bible-Believing Christians Care About Textual Variants (6/13/2024)
- If Textual Variants Don’t Change Any Key Doctrines — Then Who Cares? (6/12/2024)
- A Bizarre “Gnostic” Religion: The Naassenes – Guest Post by Dr. David Litwa (6/11/2024)
- Serious Hypothetical (And Realistically Possible) Problems With Copies of Paul’s Letters (6/9/2024)
- Even More Snarly Problems If Paul Dictated His Letters (6/8/2024)
- If Paul Dictated His Letters, How Can We Know What He Said? (6/6/2024)
- Is There Even Such a Thing as the “Original” Text of Philippians? (6/5/2024)
- Is Paul’s Letter to the Philippians Actually Two Letters Cut and Spliced Together? (6/4/2024)
- Did Paul Have a Brain Disorder? (And did it help him?!) Platinum post by Douglas Wadeson MD (6/3/2024)
- Do We Have the Original Text of Philippians? (6/2/2024)
- John the Baptist: The Most Influential Religious Innovator in History by James McGrath (Part 3) (6/1/2024)
- REMINDER: My Webinar — When Does Life Begin? The Status of the Unborn in the Biblical Tradition (5/30/2024)
- John the Baptist: The Most Influential Religious Innovator in History by James McGrath (Part 2) (5/29/2024)
- John the Baptist: The Most Influential Religious Innovator in History by James McGrath (Part 1) (5/28/2024)
- Is Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians Actually FIVE Letters? (5/26/2024)
- Is Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians Actually TWO Letters? (5/25/2024)
- Three Early Christian Writings Spliced Together Into One: The Didache (5/23/2024)
- An Important Early Christian Writing (5/22/2024)
- The Silencing of Women: 1 Cor. 14:34-35 as an Interpolation (5/21/2024)
- Knowing Paul’s Views of Women… (5/19/2024)
- When Does Life Begin? The Status of the Unborn in the Biblical Tradition. (5/17/2024)
- A Major Argument That We Can Be Sure We Have the Original Text (5/16/2024)
- Dubious Arguments That We CAN Get to the “Original Text” (5/15/2024)
- Don’t the MOST Manuscripts Show What An Author Wrote? (5/14/2024)
- April Gold Q&A Video (5/13/2024)
- Even If We Can Imagine an “Original” Text, How Could We Know if We Had It? (5/12/2024)
- Is There an Original Text Even of One of MY Books?? (5/11/2024)
- May Gold Q&A: Keep Those (Metaphorical) Cards & Letters Coming! (5/9/2024)
- How Can We Even IMAGINE an “Original” Text of the Gospels? (5/9/2024)
- Two KINDS of Originals. How Do We Know We Have Either? (5/8/2024)
- A High-level Intellectual with an Infuriating “Solution” to Why There is Suffering (5/7/2024)
- Did Paul Favor Gender Equality? (5/5/2024)
- Women in the World of Jesus (5/4/2024)
- Reminder! WHY PROPHECY FAILS! Fundraiser for Sudan With James Tabor (5/3/2024)
- Jesus and Women (5/2/2024)
- Was Paul a Misogynist? (5/1/2024)
- Does My Work on the Historical Jesus Confirm the Quran? (4/30/2024)
- Fundamentalist Christians Are Not the Only Ones to Make Dumb Arguments… (4/28/2024)
- Am I Converting to Islam? (4/27/2024)
- Wanna come to the live recording of the Gold Q&A? Saturday May 27 (4/26/2024)
- More Hard Issues on the Qur’an Fragments (4/25/2024)
- Responses to my Post on the Discovery of an Ancient Manuscript of the Quran (4/24/2024)
- An Astounding Quran Manuscript Discovery (4/23/2024)
- Fundraiser for Sudan With James Tabor (4/21/2024)
- Major Ways to Compare and Contrast the Quran With the New Testament (4/21/2024)
- The Bible and the Quran: Their Historical Problems. A New Course!! (4/20/2024)
- “Lovemaking” in the Song of Songs – Platinum Post From Dan Kohanski (4/19/2024)
- What’s It Like in Sheol? (4/18/2024)
- We Need An Experienced Fundraiser! (4/17/2024)
- What About People Who Come Back From the Dead in the Hebrew Bible? (4/17/2024)
- More on Sheol: Was it an Actual Place? (4/16/2024)
- Could Moses be Thutmose, the Overseer of the Borderlands? – Platinum Post from Serene (4/15/2024)
- What Is Sheol in the Hebrew Bible? (4/14/2024)
- Other “Unknown” Sayings of Jesus (4/13/2024)
- April Gold Q&A: Ask Away! (4/12/2024)
- Did People Have Time for Jesus? – a Platinum Post from Doug Wadeson, MD. (4/12/2024)
- Ever Hear of an Agraphon? An “Unwritten” Saying of Jesus? (4/11/2024)
- Is the Paul of Acts at Odds with the Paul of His Own Letters? (4/10/2024)
- Is the Message of Paul in Acts the Same as the Message of Paul According to Paul? (4/9/2024)
- My Favorite Fragment of a Lost Gospel. Is It the Gospel of Peter?? (4/7/2024)
- What We Knew about the Gospel of Peter Before We Had the Gospel of Peter (4/6/2024)
- An Unusually Large “Fragment” of a Lost Gospel: The Gospel of Peter (4/4/2024)
- Is That a Portion of a Famous Lost Gospel? (4/3/2024)
- Was Jesus Opposed to Women and Childbirth? The Lost Gospel of the Egyptians (4/2/2024)
- A Really Scathing Review of My Book on Suffering (3/31/2024)
- Making the Gospels Say What You WANT Them To Say (3/30/2024)
- Dealing With Reviews of My Books By People Who (Apparently) Haven’t Read Them (3/28/2024)
- March 2024 Platinum webinar (3/27/2024)
- Public Lecture at Wake Forest University: April 2 (3/27/2024)
- Among Paul’s Enemies…. (3/27/2024)
- Reminder! Platinum Webinar This Evening (Tuesday, March 26)! Did Jesus Really Mean It? (3/26/2024)
- What Did Paul’s Christian Enemies Write About Him? (3/26/2024)
- A Self-Evaluation of My Self-Debate: Is the Book of Acts Historically Reliable? (3/24/2024)
- Is the Book of Acts Reliable? The Affirmative REBUTTAL of the Negative Case (3/23/2024)
- Is the Book of Acts Historically Reliable? The Negative REBUTTAL of the Affirmative Case (3/21/2024)
- The Book of Acts is NOT RELIABLE! The Negative Case (3/20/2024)
- March Gold Q&A Video (3/19/2024)
- ANOTHER March Platinum Webinar! Did Jesus Really Mean It? (3/19/2024)
- Announcing a FREE Course! “Did Peter Hate Paul?” (3/19/2024)
- Arguments for “Historical Accuracy” That Are All Smoke and Mirrors. (3/17/2024)
- The Book of Acts IS HISTORICAL! The Affirmative Argument (3/16/2024)
- Who Cares if the Book of Acts is Historical?? (3/14/2024)
- Important Literary Features of the Book of Acts (3/13/2024)
- What is the Book of Acts About? (3/12/2024)
- Gold Q&A: Ask Your Questions! (3/11/2024)
- Is There Any Point Doing a Public Debate? (3/10/2024)
- Did Paul Exchange Letters with the Greatest Roman Philosopher of His Day?? (3/9/2024)
- Paul’s Letter to the … Laodiceans? Long Thought to be Part of the New Testament! (3/7/2024)
- Platinum Webinar for March: Ethics Without God?? (3/6/2024)
- Paul’s *THIRD* Letter to the Corinthians? A Very Interesting Forgery (3/6/2024)
- The Two Gods of Marcion and the Forgeries in the Name of Paul (3/5/2024)
- The Heretic Marcion and Forgeries of Pauline Letters (3/3/2024)
- Facts Hidden Among the Legends of the Apostle Paul? (3/2/2024)
- Our Controversial Sources About the Controversial Paul (2/29/2024)
- How Much Fact, How Much Fiction? The Life of Peter (2/28/2024)
- Archaeology in the Time of Jesus! New Course March 2-3!! (2/27/2024)
- The Disciple Peter in History and Legend (2/27/2024)
- Jesus and Mary Magdalene Seen Kissing?? (2/25/2024)
- When Did Mary Magdalene Become a Prostitute? (2/24/2024)
- Was Mary Magdalene a Prostitute? (2/22/2024)
- Some Random Reflections on Our Significance (2/21/2024)
- February Gold Q&A Video (2/20/2024)
- Changing the Past in Light of the Present (2/20/2024)
- Still Spots Open: Blog Dinner in Wichita KS, this Thursday Feb. 22 (2/18/2024)
- Proof That Historical Narratives (not just myths) Constantly Change in Oral Cultures (2/18/2024)
- When is “The Same” Memory/Tradition/Story Not Actually “The Same”? (2/17/2024)
- How Do We Know About Oral Cultures? By Starting Where You’d Never Suspect! (2/15/2024)
- Do People in Oral Cultures Have Better Memories? (2/14/2024)
- Were Matthew and Luke Plagiarists? (2/13/2024)
- Blog Dinner Wichita Kansas, Feb. 22. Interested?? (2/12/2024)
- February Gold Q&A: Ask Away! (2/12/2024)
- Plagiarism! Was It Condemned in the Ancient World? (Is Matthew Guilty of It?) (2/11/2024)
- Gospel Thrillers Part III by Andrew Jacobs (2/10/2024)
- Gospel Thrillers Part II by Andrew Jacobs (2/8/2024)
- January Gold Q&A Video (2/7/2024)
- Gospel Thrillers Part I by Andrew Jacobs (2/7/2024)
- How Do Scholars Make the Apocalyptic Jesus Non-Apocalyptic? (2/6/2024)
- A Less-Expected Argument that Jesus Preached the End of All Things (2/4/2024)
- How the Gospels Transformed the Apocalyptic Jesus (2/3/2024)
- The Jesus Seminar and the Non-Apocalyptic Jesus. Hey, Why Not? (2/1/2024)
- Blog Dinner, Waynesville NC, Feb 7. Anyone Interested? (1/31/2024)
- In Support of Religious Studies at a Major University (1/31/2024)
- How to Sugarcoat Scripture but Seem Sophisticated. Final Guest Post by Jill Hicks-Keeton (1/30/2024)
- We Need a Blog Volunteer! Do You Have Experience With Non-profit Taxes? (1/28/2024)
- How To Make the New Testament Non-Patriarchal. Good Luck with *That* One. Guest post by Jill Hicks-Keeton (1/28/2024)
- Making the Bible Benevolent: Guest Post by Jill Hicks-Keeton (1/27/2024)
- Atonement Doctrine – A Platinum Post by Manuel Fiadeiro (1/26/2024)
- Paul, the Apostate: a Platinum Post by Manuel Fiadeiro (1/25/2024)
- How’s the Christian World Doin’ These Days with the Ethics of Jesus? (1/24/2024)
- When Is Forgiveness not Forgiveness? (1/23/2024)
- Thoughts on Cosmology, a Platinum Post From Charles Hawkins (1/22/2024)
- Love in Action: Christian Views of Charitable Giving (1/21/2024)
- Is Christian Love Different from Love? (1/20/2024)
- Reminder: My Course on the Gospel of Matthew. This Weekend! (1/19/2024)
- The Fate of Jesus’ Ethics after His Death (1/18/2024)
- The Origins of Altruism: My Next Book as It Stands Now (1/17/2024)
- I’m Going to the Greek Islands. Interested in Joining Me? (1/16/2024)
- Our Commitment to Charity (1/13/2024)
- How Jesus “Fills” Scripture “Full” in Matthew (1/11/2024)
- What Does It Actually Mean to “Fulfill” Scripture? (1/10/2024)
- Is Matthew Duplicitous in His Reading of Scripture? (1/9/2024)
- Putting Final Polish on a Bible Translation. Ouch. (1/7/2024)
- My (Backstage) Work for the New Revised Standard Version Translation (1/6/2024)
- How Do We Fit in the Universe? (1/4/2024)
- How to Botch a Bible Translation (because of inclusive language) (1/3/2024)
- A Sensible Approach to Inclusive Language in Bible Translation? (1/2/2024)
- Should Bible Translations Be Gender-Neutral? (12/31/2023)
- 2023 In Review (12/30/2023)
- Problems with Translating a Single Greek WORD (12/30/2023)
- December Gold Q&A Video (12/28/2023)
- How Do You Translate the Bible? My Work for the New Revised Standard Version Committee (12/28/2023)
- Nazareth in the Time of Jesus: the Archaeological Record (12/27/2023)
- A Blog Challenge Grant, A Worthy Cause for Your End-of-the-Year Giving (12/26/2023)
- The Gift of Christmas (2023) (12/24/2023)
- The Myth That Nazareth Was a Myth (12/23/2023)
- Did Nazareth Even Exist? (12/21/2023)
- Interpreting a Text to Make It Seem Orthodox: Luke and Its View of Jesus (12/20/2023)
- Hark, the Herald Angels What Now? Guest Post by Esther J. Hamori (12/19/2023)
- Biblical Monsters and Their Violent God! Guest Post by Esther Hamori (12/17/2023)
- How Did Early Christians Make Unorthodox Texts Seem Orthodox? (12/16/2023)
- December 2023 Platinum webinar (12/15/2023)
- Why Would an Editor ADD the Virgin Birth to Luke? (12/14/2023)
- No Virgin Birth? Was Jesus ADOPTED by God to be His Son? (12/13/2023)
- Did Luke’s Gospel Originally Contain a Virgin Birth? (12/12/2023)
- When Modern Christians Came to Think “The End is Near” (12/10/2023)
- American Support of Israel: A (Widely) Unknown Part of the History (12/9/2023)
- Bart’s Going Viral–And You Can Help! (12/7/2023)
- Are You Willing To Donate Blog Memberships to Those Who Can’t Afford It? (12/7/2023)
- Jesus in Illuminated Manuscripts and Legends: Video Post (12/7/2023)
- So: Did Anyone Think of Jesus as a Miracle-Worker Before His Crucifixion? (12/6/2023)
- Platinum Webinar for December: “O Little Town of Nazareth? Where Was Jesus Actually Born?” (12/5/2023)
- What’s the *Point* of Jesus’ Miracles? (12/5/2023)
- Volunteer Needed!! Interested in Recording Audio Versions of the Blog Posts? (12/4/2023)
- Was Jesus Considered a Miracle Worker During His *Lifetime*? (12/3/2023)
- Gold Q&A!! Ask Your Questions! (12/2/2023)
- Were Jesus’ Miracles in the Original Texts of the Gospels? (12/2/2023)
- I’m Lecturing on a Cruise this Summer. Interested in coming? (12/1/2023)
- The Miracles of the Emperor Vespasian. A Platinum Post by Ryan Fleming (11/30/2023)
- Is There Any Sarcasm in the New Testament? (11/29/2023)
- Was Joseph the Actual Father of Jesus? Announcing a Special Online Christmas Course (11/27/2023)
- Do You Want to Take the Final Exam for My Course: “Birth of Christianity”? (11/26/2023)
- An Intriguing and Unusual Demonstration of Early Christian Differences… (11/25/2023)
- How Paul’s Own Writings Show the Earliest Church Was Split Over “Orthodoxy” and “Heresy” (11/24/2023)
- How the Canon Itself Tames the Diversity of the New Testament (11/22/2023)
- But Your Own Teacher Bruce Metzger Didn’t Think That! (11/21/2023)
- Wasn’t Early Christianity Basically Unified? Why Fret About Occasional Diversity? (11/19/2023)
- The Revolutionary Understanding of Orthodoxy and Heresy: An Evaluation of Bauer’s Views (11/18/2023)
- Does God Have Chromosomes? Platinum Post by Douglas Wadeson, MD (11/17/2023)
- November Gold Q&A Video (11/16/2023)
- The Most Significant Study of Christian “Heresy” in Modern Times (11/16/2023)
- Vote for Your Favorite Platinum Post (11/15/2023)
- A Fundamental Issue: Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early Christianity (11/15/2023)
- What’s the Best Way to Read a Non-Fiction Book? (11/14/2023)
- How Exactly Could the Virgin-Born Jesus Have a Twin Brother? (11/12/2023)
- Could the Gospel of Thomas Be Q? Could it Be Older Than the NT Gospels? (11/11/2023)
- What Is the Gospel of Thomas All About? And Did the Author Use the New Testament Gospels? (11/10/2023)
- Send in your Questions! November Gold Q&A (11/9/2023)
- The Most Famous Non-Canonical Gospel: The Gospel of Thomas (11/8/2023)
- Thomasine Gnostic Christians, and Sundry Others (11/7/2023)
- October Gold Q&A Video (11/6/2023)
- My New Course: November 11 — The Scribal Corruption of Scripture (11/5/2023)
- A Bizarre Scene in the Gospel of Philip: Jesus Kissing Mary (11/5/2023)
- The Gospel of Philip: An Example of a Valentinian Gnostic Gospel (11/4/2023)
- A Different Kind of Gnostic: The Valentinians (11/2/2023)
- Check Out This Gnostic Myth from the Gospel of Judas! (11/1/2023)
- The Gospel of Judas: Here’s a Taste of It (10/31/2023)
- Want to Sit in on My October Gold Q&A (Monday Oct 30)? (10/29/2023)
- The Gospel of Judas: The Most Recently Discovered Sethian Gnostic Gospel (10/29/2023)
- Gnostic Views in General and the More Specific Views of One Known Group (The Sethians) (10/28/2023)
- Some of the Difficulties in Understanding Gnosticism (10/26/2023)
- Aren’t You Inconsistent in Your View of the Historicity of the Gospels? (10/25/2023)
- October Gold Q&A – Send Questions! (10/24/2023)
- Interesting Questions About the Books From Nag Hammadi (10/24/2023)
- Are There Really Good Reasons to Doubt the Story of the Discovery of the Gnostic Gospels? My Response to Mark Goodacre (10/22/2023)
- Why We Might Doubt the Story of the Discovery of the Gnostic Gospels: Guest post by Mark Goodacre (10/21/2023)
- Vote for Your Favorite Platinum Post! (10/20/2023)
- What Is Actually In the Nag Hammadi Library? (10/19/2023)
- Reminder: Interesting Lecture on Thursday Oct. 19: Creation Stories not in Genesis! (10/18/2023)
- Our Most Important Discovery of Ancient Christian Writings: The Nag Hammadi Library (10/18/2023)
- Another Mythicist View of Jesus’ Brothers (10/17/2023)
- New Policy on Platinum Guest Posts (10/16/2023)
- What the Jesus “Mythicists” Say About the Brothers of Jesus (10/15/2023)
- Were Jesus’ Brothers His … Brothers? The Proto-Gospel of James (10/14/2023)
- Misquoting Jesus Podcast: Special One-Year Anniversary Edition (10/13/2023)
- When a Gospel Meets the Twilight Zone: As Time Stands Still in the Proto-Gospel of James (10/12/2023)
- The Gospel Before the Gospel: The Proto-Gospel of James (10/11/2023)
- But If It Didn’t Really Happen, Who Cares? (10/10/2023)
- Is Christ *Merely* the “Adopted” Son of God? (10/8/2023)
- If Luke Didn’t Originally Have a Birth Story — Then What? (10/7/2023)
- Did Luke Originally Have the Birth Narrative (chapters 1-2)? (10/5/2023)
- Early Gospels in Circulation: An Even Messier Scenario (10/4/2023)
- Reading the Bible in a Secular Age: Guest Post by Prof. Julius-Kei Kato (10/3/2023)
- The Creation Stories in the Hebrew Bible (outside of Genesis!). A Lecture You May Be Interested In (10/2/2023)
- Proposed Solutions For the Four Metaphysical Puzzles Related to Jesus From an Islamic Perspective From Omar Robb (10/2/2023)
- The Messy World of the Early Christian Gospels. Who Is Copying What? (10/1/2023)
- Why Would Jesus Get Angry at this Poor Leper? (9/30/2023)
- Did Jesus Think He Was Going to Atone for the Sins of the World? A Platinum Post by Manuel Fiadeiro (9/29/2023)
- Why Is Jesus So Angry? (9/28/2023)
- Jesus and Another Leper: Getting Angry at the Poor Fellow? (9/27/2023)
- Was Jesus Conceived out of Wedlock by Mary and a Jewish Relative, Pantera? Part III Guest Post by James Tabor (9/26/2023)
- September 2023 Gold Q&A (video) (9/25/2023)
- (Part 2) A Discussion on the Issue of Suffering and the Moral in Job’s Story. A Platinum Post From Omar Robb (9/25/2023)
- Was the Father of Jesus … Pantera? Part II Guest Post by James Tabor (9/24/2023)
- Who Was Jesus’ Biological Father? Part I. Guest Post by James Tabor (9/23/2023)
- Did Luke Read Galatians? Platinum Post by Guillermo Mondon (9/22/2023)
- The Gospel according to Mel (Gibson) (9/21/2023)
- Is It Better to Follow Christ or to Live a Contented Life? Paul vs. Epicurus (9/20/2023)
- One of our Earliest Gospels from Outside the New Testament: The Egerton Papyrus. (9/19/2023)
- Time to Vote! (9/18/2023)
- (Part I) A Discussion on Spirit, Death, Afterlife, Consciousness, and Free Will. A Platinum Post From Omar Robb (9/18/2023)
- That’s in the New Testament, Right? An Interesting Non-Canonical Story. (9/17/2023)
- About Those Ebionites and Their Peculiar Gospel (9/16/2023)
- Paul, the Apostate: a Platinum Post by Manuel Fiadeiro (9/15/2023)
- Locusts or Pancakes? The Dietary Preferences of John the Baptist. (9/14/2023)
- Contradictions? What Contradictions? Harmonizing the Gospels. (9/13/2023)
- A Conference on the Gospels for Non-Scholars! (9/12/2023)
- The Pauline Style and a Discussion About Paul’s Motivation. A Platinum Post From Omar Robb (9/11/2023)
- The Apocryphal Gospels By and For Jewish Christians (9/10/2023)
- Want to Study the Early Christian Apocrypha? (9/9/2023)
- Jesus, Sun Myung Moon, and Me: a Platinum Post from William Poe (9/8/2023)
- A Hugely Memorable Moment: When I Saw Codex Sinaiticus (9/7/2023)
- September Gold Q&A–Get Those Questions in! (9/6/2023)
- My Trip to Saint Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai: Discovery Site of Codex Sinaiticus (9/6/2023)
- The Discovery of Codex Sinaiticus: One of the Most Important Manuscripts of the New Testament (9/5/2023)
- Mark 13:30–a New Argument for an Old Hypothesis. A Platinum Post From Omar Robb (9/4/2023)
- Does Archaeological Evidence Show that Jesus Was Buried on the Day He Died? (9/3/2023)
- Josephus’ One Statement About the Burial of Crucified Victims in Judea (9/2/2023)
- Thoughts on Cosmology, a Platinum Post From Charles Hawkins (9/1/2023)
- Bogus Arguments for Disbelief (8/31/2023)
- How Relevant is Josephus for Knowing What Happened to the Body of Jesus? (8/30/2023)
- Did Jews Always Bury Their Dead on the Day of their Death? Was Jesus Buried Then? (8/29/2023)
- August 2023 Gold Q&A (video) (8/28/2023)
- Premarital Sex in The Song of Songs: A Platinum Post by Dan Kohanski (8/28/2023)
- The Evidence of Josephus for the Burial of Jesus (8/27/2023)
- Why Do Some (Many?) Scholars Not Treat the Bible Like Other Ancient Sources? (8/26/2023)
- How To Be a Consistently Critical Historian, In the Good Sense (8/24/2023)
- Did Jesus Believe the End Would Come Within his Lifetime? Maybe Not! Platinum Post by Rizwan Ahmed (8/22/2023)
- Corpses Left on Roman Crosses? Penalties for Removing them Early? A Humorous Story (?!) from Antiquity (8/20/2023)