Complete Post Archive in List Format
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- 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)
- Blog Dinner in London, Friday July 12 (and possibly another). You Interested? (7/4/2024)
- 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)
- Does Jesus Call Himself God in His Trial Before the Sanhedrin and the High Priest Caiaphas? (8/19/2023)
- Was “King of the Jews” Really the Charge Against Jesus, Leading to his Crucifixion? (8/17/2023)
- Pontius Pilate, Intransigent Governor, Crucifier of Jesus (8/16/2023)
- Did Pilate Allow Jesus to be Buried Because He Had “Learned his Lesson”? (8/15/2023)
- Gold Q&A for August! (8/14/2023)
- How Accurate Are Orally-Transmitted Reports? A Platinum Post From Imran M. Usmani (8/14/2023)
- Was Pilate Sensitive to Jews and their Customs (such that he would allow decent burials for crucified victims)? (8/13/2023)
- Why Critical Scholarship on the Gospels Helps *Believers* in the Bible! (8/12/2023)
- We Have Crucifixion Nails! Isn’t that Evidence for Jesus’ Burial? (8/12/2023)
- Serious Discount on my Book! (8/11/2023)
- A Proposition That Ramesses-the-Sixth (Ramesses VI) Was the Pharaoh of the Exodus by Omar Robb (8/11/2023)
- Is Critical Biblical Scholarship Valid? What the New Testament Itself Indicates! (8/10/2023)
- Hey, Stop Trashing the Gospels! (8/9/2023)
- Creating the Qu’ran: Where Did the Scripture of Islam Really Come From? Guest post by Stephen Shoemaker (8/8/2023)
- Were Roman Leaders Told to Provide Decent Burials for Crucified Victims? (Really?) (8/6/2023)
- Did Romans Show Clemency to Crucified Criminals? (8/5/2023)
- Want to Watch Our Tár Movie Review With Maestra Gisele Ben-Dor? (8/3/2023)
- Time to Vote for Your Favorite Platinum Post (8/2/2023)
- Preparing for that “Final Trip” (outta here). What Do You Think? (8/2/2023)
- My Interview With Glenn Siepert (8/1/2023)
- Jesus the Half-Nabataean Prince, a Platinum Post by Serene (7/31/2023)
- Alleged “Proof” That Crucified Jews Were Allowed Decent Burials (7/30/2023)
- New Insights into the New Testament: An Event You DON’T Want to Miss! (7/29/2023)
- A Proposition That the First Greek Converts to Jesus Were a Few Ascetic Pythagorean Philosophers. A Platinum Post From Omar Robb (7/28/2023)
- Does It Even Matter If Jesus Was Given a Proper Burial? (7/27/2023)
- More Reasons for Thinking Jesus was Not Given a Decent Burial (7/26/2023)
- Did Romans Allow Decent Burials for Crucified Criminals? (7/25/2023)
- Literary Problems with the Gospel Accounts of Jesus’ Burial (7/23/2023)
- Reminder: Why I’m Not a Christian — tomorrow! (7/22/2023)
- Back to Whether Jesus Was Really Given a Decent Burial (7/22/2023)
- Is the USA the Antichrist of the Book of Revelation? Slavic Views of the Apocalypse. Guest Post by Mikhail Abakumov (7/20/2023)
- Male Superiority in Antiquity (7/19/2023)
- More on Love: Why Were Greek Men Especially Attracted to Prepubescent Boys? (7/18/2023)
- An Important Difference in John–a Platinum Post by Ryan Fleming (7/17/2023)
- The Narrow Road to … Hell? Guest Post by Glenn Siepert (7/16/2023)
- Radiocarbon Dating of the Qur’an. Has It Solved the Problem? Guest Post by Stephen Shoemaker (7/15/2023)
- Questions about Dating the Gospels (7/13/2023)
- Why Discrepancies and Contradictions *Enrich* Our Understanding of the Gospels (7/13/2023)
- Our Inner Herod. Guest Post by Glenn Siepert (7/12/2023)
- The Life of Brian and Jesus: Was Jesus Really Buried on the Day of the Crucifixion? (7/11/2023)
- Announcing a NEW (Free!) Course: Why I Am Not A Christian (7/10/2023)
- Vespasian Miracles. A Platinum Post by Ryan Fleming (7/10/2023)
- More on the Life of Brian and the Historical Jesus (7/9/2023)
- Blog Dinner in London, Tuesday July 25. Interested? (7/8/2023)
- The Life of Brian and the Historical Jesus (7/8/2023)
- What Is (Sexually) “Unnatural”? (7/6/2023)
- How the Bible Can Help Those in Pain — Even Non-Believers. Guest Post by Glenn Siepert (7/4/2023)
- June 2023 Gold Q&A (video) (7/2/2023)
- The (Lost) Greater Questions of Mary (Rated R) (X?) (7/2/2023)
- The Lost Gospel of Basilides (7/1/2023)
- The Road from the “Duo of Philo” to the “Trinity of Nicaea”–Guest Post by Omar Robb (6/30/2023)
- Did Paul Get Along with the Other Apostles? (6/29/2023)
- After Paul Converted… Does the Book of Acts Contradict Paul Himself? (6/28/2023)
- Was Paul Authorized to Persecute Christians? (6/27/2023)
- Was Abraham “Just Plain Nuts?” A Platinum Post by Douglas Wadeson MD (6/26/2023)
- Can the Qur’an and Early Islam Be Studied Critically (Like the NT and Early Christianity?) Guest Post by Stephen Shoemaker (6/25/2023)
- Did the Curtain in the Temple Really Rip in Half at Jesus’ Crucifixion? (6/24/2023)
- Was Jesus an Ascetic Street Preacher or a Man With a Plan? A Platinum Post From Omar Robb (6/23/2023)
- Did The Twelve Become Only Three? Platinum post by Douglas Wadeson MD (6/22/2023)
- 📢 Help Wanted: Join Bart Ehrman Professional Services as a Writer/Editor! (6/21/2023)
- Did Pilate Really Release A Dangerous Criminal, Barabbas, at Jesus’ Trial? (6/21/2023)
- Were Jesus Followers Really Armed and Dangerous in the Garden of Gethsemane? (6/20/2023)
- The Slippery Slope of Extreme DIAKRISIS (Discernment). A Platinum Post by Barry Haney (6/19/2023)
- Did Jesus Really Cleanse the Temple? (6/18/2023)
- Away from life for a while (6/17/2023)
- Did the Triumphal Entry Really Happen? (6/17/2023)
- June Gold Q&A (6/16/2023)
- The Bart Ehrman Movie Club Presents: Life of Brian (6/15/2023)
- Jesus’ Trial Before Pilate: Some of the Distorted Memories of the Gospels (6/15/2023)
- Jesus’ Trial Before Pilate: What Can We Actually Know? (6/14/2023)
- The Radical Teachings of Jesus–And Why No One Follows Them (6/13/2023)
- The Events Leading up to the Death of Jesus: What Can We Know and Not Know? (6/11/2023)
- If We Can Know the “Gist” of What Jesus Said and Did … What’s the Gist? (6/10/2023)
- Were Jesus’ Most Amazing Deeds the Ones Most Likely to be Remembered? (6/8/2023)
- Vote for Your Favorite Platinum Post (6/7/2023)
- Eyewitness Testimony: The Importance of Actual Expertise (6/7/2023)
- Eyewitnesses and Guaranteed Accuracy (6/6/2023)
- “You Have Heard His Blasphemy!” But Did They? A Platinum post by Daniel Kohanski (6/5/2023)
- Being Realistic about How Stories about Jesus Spread before the Gospels (6/4/2023)
- Who Was Spreading the Stories about Jesus Before the Gospels? (6/3/2023)
- The 3rd Rail – A Critique of Jesus. Platinum Post by Steve Clark (6/2/2023)
- Jesus, Eyewitnesses, and Stories Floating Around…. (6/1/2023)
- May Gold Q&A Video (5/31/2023)
- More on Secret Mark as a Forgery (by Morton Smith?) (5/31/2023)
- Did Morton Smith Forge the Secret Gospel of Mark? (5/30/2023)
- Blog Dinner in London on Monday June 12. Interested? (5/29/2023)
- Was Jesus a Simplistic Person or an Extraordinary One? A Platinum Post by Omar Abur-Robb (5/29/2023)
- Are *Groups* of Story Tellers (Think: Ancient Followers of Jesus) More Likely to Preserve Traditions Accurately than Individuals? (5/28/2023)
- Back in the Saddle Again… (5/27/2023)
- Do Modern Mideastern Story Tellers Show How the Ancient Traditions of Jesus Were Circulated? (5/27/2023)
- Did Jesus Believe The End Would Come Within His Lifetime? Platinum Post by Rizwan Ahmed (5/26/2023)
- Do Modern Mideastern Customs of Story Telling Show that the Gospels Are Accurate? (5/25/2023)
- More Problems with Thinking Jesus’ Followers Memorized the Stories about Him (5/24/2023)
- My New Online Course on Paul and Jesus! (5/23/2023)
- Didn’t the Disciples Memorize Jesus’ Teachings and Accounts of His Life? (5/23/2023)
- Was Jesus Literate or Illiterate? A Platinum Post by Omar Abur-Robb (5/22/2023)
- Stories of Jesus Passed on By Word of Mouth. When Scholars First Took Oral Traditions Seriously. (5/21/2023)
- Does Mark Present the Bare-Bones Facts about Jesus’ Life? (5/20/2023)
- Was Levi of Alphaeus the “the Beloved Disciple”? Platinum Post by Gregory Hartzler-Miller, MATS (5/19/2023)
- How Can We Get Behind “False Memories” of Jesus to the Historical Facts? (5/18/2023)
- Did Early Christians “Invent” Memories of Jesus? (5/17/2023)
- Jesus’ Resurrection: A Challenging Hypothetical. Guest Post by Ryan Fleming (5/16/2023)
- The Father and the Son. A Platinum Post by Omar Abur-Robb (5/15/2023)
- How Can We “Remember” Someone (say, Jesus) We Never Knew? (5/14/2023)
- In What Sense is a Made-Up Story about Jesus a False *Memory*?? (5/13/2023)
- Dr. Bart D. Ehrman, Apostle to the Atheists. A Platinum Post by Robert Droney (5/12/2023)
- Blog Announcement: Comments! (5/11/2023)
- Creation Stories of the Ancient World (Part 2): An Ancient Egyptian Account (5/11/2023)
- May Gold Q&A: Submit your questions! (5/10/2023)
- Does Understanding “Memory” Have Any Bearing on the Study of the Historical Jesus? (5/10/2023)
- Was Matthew Attacking Paul? (5/9/2023)
- The Road From the “Duo of Philo” to the “Trinity of Nicaea” A Platinum Post by Omar Abur-Robb (5/8/2023)
- Remembering Columbus, Remembering Christ (5/7/2023)
- How Do We “Remember” Lincoln? (5/6/2023)
- When I Got Seriously Interested in Memory (at least insofar as I remember) (5/4/2023)
- Did The Twelve Become Only Three? Platinum post by Douglas Wadeson MD (5/3/2023)
- My Forgotten Book on Memory (5/3/2023)
- And Here’s My Final Exam on The Birth of Christianity (5/2/2023)
- Was Jesus a False Prophet? (5/1/2023)