Complete Post Archive in List Format

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• Baptism and the Macbeth Effect. Platinum post by Douglas Wadeson MD (4/14/2023)
• The Discovery of a Lifetime: A Secret Gospel of Mark? (4/13/2023)
• Do Scholars Ever Forge Gospels? (4/12/2023)
• Why Purgatory Makes Sense (4/11/2023)
• Gold Q&A LIVE! (And Recorded) Tuesday April 11 (4/10/2023)
• Don’t Wanna Be Left Behind? An Upcoming Lecture on the Rapture! (4/10/2023)
• How Does An Author Write a Bestseller? (4/10/2023)
• The Quest for the Legendary Jesus. Platinum Guest Post by Robert Droney (4/10/2023)
• The First Actual Account of the Resurrection (Hint: It’s Not in the New Testament) (4/9/2023)
• What If I Commit the Unforgivable Sin? Can It Be Purged in Purgatory? (4/8/2023)
•  Yahweh and Moses. Platinum Guest Post by Omar Abur-Robb (4/7/2023)
• Blog Volunteer Needed!! (4/6/2023)
• Did Jesus Believe in Purgatory? (4/6/2023)
• Purgatory Before There Was a Purgatory (4/5/2023)
• The Origins of Purgatory (4/4/2023)
• April Gold Q&A: Submit your questions! (4/3/2023)
• Dreaming of Purgatory (4/2/2023)
• The Martyrdom of Perpetua and the Rise of Purgatory (4/1/2023)
• What Does God Think of Surrogacy? Platinum Guestpost by Imran M. Usmani (3/31/2023)
• Biblical Prophecy and the Coming Destruction of the Dome of the Rock (3/30/2023)
• The Coming Apocalypse and U.S. Foreign Policy on Israel (3/29/2023)
• The Apocalypse and the Situation in Ukraine: Interview with a Ukrainian Christian Scholar (3/28/2023)
• REVELATION, A Novel. Excerpts from Blog Guest Poster Gary McCarragher (3/26/2023)
• Of COURSE the Rapture is in the New Testament — There for all to see! Right? (3/25/2023)
• Is The Rapture in the New Testament? (3/23/2023)
• Was the Roman Soldier Pantera Jesus’ Father? His Cousin? Platinum Guest Post by Omar Abur-Robb (3/22/2023)
• Armageddon Has Arrived! (3/21/2023)
• Why Would an Atheist Be Obsessed with Jesus? (3/19/2023)
• You Have No Right To Question Why You Suffer. What??? (3/18/2023)
• First-Quarter 2023 Platinum Webinar (3/16/2023)
• Creation Stories of the Ancient World (Part 1): On Enuma Elish and Genesis 1 Guest Post by Joseph Lam (3/16/2023)
• Does God Punish Those Who Do *Right*? (3/15/2023)
• March Gold Q&A (3/14/2023)
• Pre-Pub Offer on My Book: ARMAGEDDON! (3/14/2023)
• Job and His “Friends.” With Friends Like These… (3/14/2023)
• Live Gold Q&A! Monday March 13. (3/12/2023)
• What Do the Apostles’ Deaths Prove? Guest Post by Kyle Smith. (3/12/2023)
• February Gold Q&A (video) (3/11/2023)
• Is the God of Job Worthy of Worship? (3/11/2023)
• The Story of the Righteous Job and His Righteous God (3/9/2023)
• Suffering in the Two Books of Job. Two Books? (3/8/2023)
• Platinum Webinar! Forgiveness vs. Atonement (3/7/2023)
• Revelation — A Novel. Guest Post Announcing Publication, by Gary McCarragher (3/7/2023)
• March Gold Q&A: Submit your questions! (3/6/2023)
• The Voice at Jesus’ Baptism–An Intriguing Version in the Gospel of the Ebionites (3/5/2023)
• Is the Gospel of Mark in Papias Our Gospel of Mark? (3/4/2023)
• Who Wrote the Gospels? Our Earliest (Apparent) Reference (3/2/2023)
• Did Mark Write Mark? What the Apostolic Fathers Say (3/1/2023)
• Vote for your favorite Platinum Post (2/28/2023)
• The End of the World Means the End of Sex. Guest Post by Daniel Kohanski (2/28/2023)
• Do We Suffer Because We Have “Free Will”? (2/26/2023)
• Why Would Evolving Beliefs about Sin Lead to the Idea of an Afterlife? Guest Post by Daniel Kohanski (2/25/2023)
• Exciting Lecture: Archaeological Finds (Artwork!) in an Ancient Galilean Synagogue (2/24/2023)
• Seeing the Problem of Suffering as a PROBLEM (2/23/2023)
• Is Suffering a “Problem” for Believers? (2/22/2023)
• Wait, Was Jesus Married? Guest Post by Kyle Smith (2/21/2023)
• How Does Something “Mean” (2/19/2023)
• Is It A Sin To Be Transgender? Platinum guest post by Douglas Wadeson MD (2/18/2023)
• Analyzing the Prophecies in Daniel 7, 2 and 9. Platinum Guest Post by Omar Abur-Robb (2/17/2023)
• Is Christianity a Cult of the Dead? Guest Post by Kyle Smith, PhD (2/16/2023)
• What Did Judas Betray, and Why Did He Do It? (2/15/2023)
• Want To Listen to the Live Gold Q&A (and maybe ask a question)? (2/14/2023)
• Judas Iscariot: What We Can Say With Relative Certainty. (I think…) (2/14/2023)
• We Need A Volunteer to Record Audio Versions of the Blog Posts. Interested? (2/13/2023)
• Jesus’ Resurrection: A Challenging Hypothetical. Guest Post by Ryan Fleming (2/13/2023)
• Can We Know Anything About Judas Iscariot? (2/12/2023)
• How Theologians and Historians Approach the Same Bible Differently. Guest Post by Daniel Kohanski (2/11/2023)
• Do You Want to Discuss the Movie Tár with World-Renowned Conductor Gisele Ben-Dor? Blog Fundraiser for Earthquake Victims in Turkey/Syria (2/10/2023)
• Why Do Muslims Deny that Jesus Was Crucified? Platinum Guest Post by Imran M. Usmani (2/10/2023)
• An Intriguing Anti-Jewish Variant: Did Jesus Pray “Father forgive them”? (2/9/2023)
• Anti-Jewish Alterations of the New Testament Writings? (2/8/2023)
• New Testament Manuscripts That Reveal Later Theological Controversies (2/7/2023)
• My New Online Course on the Gospel of Mark! (2/5/2023)
• New Testament Manuscripts as Windows into Early Christian History (2/5/2023)
• February Gold Q&A: Go for the Gold! (2/4/2023)
• Am I About To Become Muslim? (2/4/2023)
• Was the Roman Soldier Pantera Jesus’ Father? His Cousin? Platinum Guest Post by Omar Abur-Robb (2/3/2023)
• Finally: The Martyrdom of Polycarp as a Clever Christian Forgery (2/2/2023)
• January 2023 Gold Q&A (Video) (2/1/2023)
• January 2023 Gold & Platinum History of the Devil Bonus Lecture (2/1/2023)
• Evidence of Forgery. More Reasons the Martyrdom of Polycarp Was Not Written by Someone There (2/1/2023)
• Do Eyewitnesses Prove Miracles? Can They Be Faked? The Martyrdom of Polycarp (1/31/2023)
• Recreational Drugs in the New Testament? Platinum Guest Post by Douglas Wadeson (1/30/2023)
• Can We Take the Martyrdom of Polycarp at Face Value? (1/29/2023)
• Is the Martyrdom of Polycarp an Authentic Account? (1/28/2023)
• Was Moses High on Mt. Sinai?  Part 1   Platinum Post by Douglas Wadeson MD (1/27/2023)
• More about the First Christian Martyr Text (1/26/2023)
• Don’t Forget Gold and Platinum Members! A FREE Webinar this Saturday. (1/25/2023)
• Do You Want (and Need) a Free Membership to the Blog? Gift Offer 2023 (1/25/2023)
• The First Christian Martyr Text? (1/24/2023)
• Vote on Your Favorite Platinum Post! (1/23/2023)
• A Spectacular Martyrdom and an Intriguing Textual Change (1/23/2023)
• The New Testament Ain’t the Only Text with Important Scribal Changes! (1/22/2023)
• Are the Gospels Anti-Jewish? (1/21/2023)
• What’s So Hard about Translating Ancient Texts? (1/19/2023)
• Watching Notes for Jesus of Montreal! (My Favorite Jesus Movie!) (1/18/2023)
• What About Translations of Other Ancient Christian Writings? (1/18/2023)
• Do All Modern Translators of the New Testament Translate the Same Greek Text? (1/17/2023)
• Armageddon! My New Book on the Revelation of John. (1/15/2023)
• Do Public Debates Do Anyone Any Good? What Do You Think? (1/14/2023)
• Paul and the Gospels: Platinum Guest Post by Ryan Fleming (1/13/2023)
• Famous Passages that Are Not Original: How Do Modern Translators Deal with Them? (1/12/2023)
• Problems with the King James Version: What Were the Translators Translating? (1/11/2023)
• Can We Trust the Bible? The First Published (as opposed to Printed) Greek New Testament (1/10/2023)
• My All-Time Favorite Jesus Movie. Wanna Discuss It With Me? (1/9/2023)
• What Is a Viable Christian Theology? Platinum Guest Post by Joel Scheller (1/9/2023)
• Can We Trust the Bible? The First Printed Greek New Testament (1/8/2023)
• What New Testament Do New Testament Translators Translate? (1/7/2023)
• A FREEBIE for Gold and Platinum Members Only (1/5/2023)
• Infamous Typos in the King James Bible (1/5/2023)
• The King James Bible: Some Intriguing Word Choices (1/4/2023)
• November Gold Q&A (1/3/2023)
• An Unusually Significant Reference Work: The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (1/3/2023)
• December 2022 Gold Q&A (1/2/2023)
• Is the King James Bible Actually the William Tyndale Version? (1/1/2023)
• Whoa. End of Year Review of the Blog, 2022. (12/31/2022)
• Did Jesus Believe in Hell? My Interview With Kevin Grant (12/30/2022)
• If the King James Was Good Enough for Paul, It’s Good Enough for Me (12/29/2022)
• Just Follow That Star! (12/27/2022)
• Christmas Reflections 2022 (from ten years on) (12/25/2022)
• O Little Town of Nazareth? (12/24/2022)
• Want to Watch/Discuss a Jesus Movie with Me? The Blog Movie Club! (12/23/2022)
• Instead of “From Nazareth” was Jesus a “Nazarite”?? (12/22/2022)
• Did Jesus Actually Come from Nazareth? (12/21/2022)
• Are You Willing To Give a Holiday Gift Membership To Someone Who Needs It?? (12/20/2022)
• Did Jesus Appear to 500 People After His Resurrection? (12/20/2022)
• Did Christ Save *Everyone* When He Descended to Hades? (12/18/2022)
• Did Jesus Descend to Hell After He Died? (12/17/2022)
• What Would the Apostle Paul Think of The Trinity? Platinum Guest Post by Joel Scheller (12/16/2022)
• The Mind-Body Problem As My Personal Dilemma. What Do YOU Think? (12/15/2022)
• December Gold Q&A (12/14/2022)
• A Truly Great New Testament Scholar: E. P. Sanders in Memoriam (12/14/2022)
• What about Forgeries IN the New Testament? Is it Possible? (12/13/2022)
• Forgeries in the Names of the Apostles: Some of the Most Interesting (12/11/2022)
• Writing Forgeries to Show the Truth (12/10/2022)
• Are You Interested in an End-of-the-Year Donation Opportunity? Blog Challenge Grants!! (12/9/2022)
• Is It A Sin To Be Transgender? Platinum guest post by Douglas Wadeson MD (12/9/2022)
• Can Christianity Be Seen as “Objective” Truth? Modern and Ancient Views. (12/8/2022)
• The Other Virgin Births in Antiquity (12/7/2022)
• Our Platinum Webinar: The Infancy Gospels! (12/6/2022)
• Is Judaism Legalistic? Misunderstanding the Law of Moses (12/6/2022)
• Is The Exodus a Myth? (12/4/2022)
• Are There Contradictions in the Pentateuch? (12/3/2022)
• Other Virgin Births In Antiquity! A New Online Lecture, with Q&A (12/2/2022)
• Do We Have the Original Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)? (12/1/2022)
• So Which Text is Original?? My View of 1 Thessalonians 2:7 (11/30/2022)
• Do We KNOW What Paul Wrote? If You Think So, Answer This…. (11/29/2022)
• November Gold Q&A (11/28/2022)
• December Platinum Webinar! (11/28/2022)
• How Changing a Single Letter of a Single Word Can Change the Meaning of a Passage (11/27/2022)
• A Challenge Grant to the Blog! Can You Help Match It? (11/26/2022)
• What Is Paul’s First Surviving Letter All About? 1 Thessalonians (11/25/2022)
• How To Leave the Faith and Not Destroy the Family: Thanksgiving Reflection 2022 (11/23/2022)
• Religion and the Wrecking Ball of Truth (11/22/2022)
• Me and the “Truth”: A Bit of Autobiography (11/20/2022)
• Why Would Scribes Mess with Mark’s Very First Verse? (11/19/2022)
• Do We Know How Mark Began His Gospel? Another Scribal Change (11/17/2022)
• Did God Mock Jesus on the Cross? A Scribal Change? (11/16/2022)
• An Error in Mark? Did Scribes Change It? (11/15/2022)
• How Can “Group Hallucinations” Possibly Happen? (11/13/2022)
• Intriguing Scribal Errors Made by Accident (11/12/2022)
• Why Paul Was Persecuted (Or Claimed He Was). Guest Post by Daniel Kohanski (11/10/2022)
• How Did Scribes Change Their Manuscripts? (11/9/2022)
• Do Church Fathers Show What the Authors of the NT Actually Wrote? (11/8/2022)
• Was Paul Thinking about Committing Suicide? (11/6/2022)
• What Are Ancient “Versions” of the New Testament? (11/5/2022)
• What Charities does the Blog Support? (11/3/2022)
• Trying to Make Scholarship Interesting (11/2/2022)
• New Testament Manuscripts: Good News and Bad News (11/1/2022)
• On a couple of personal notes… (10/31/2022)
• Is it Possible Jesus Didn’t Teach the Golden Rule? (10/30/2022)
• The Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament (10/29/2022)
• The Strange World of Textual Criticism (10/27/2022)
• Did Jesus Give the Sermon on the Mount? (10/26/2022)
• Can’t We Just Get Rid of Some of the Books of the Bible? (10/25/2022)
• Armageddon in Biden and the Bible (10/23/2022)
• Little Known Aspects of The Golden Rule as Found in the Sermon on the Mount (10/22/2022)
• What Does It Mean to Be an Active Research Scholar? Editing Scholarly Journals (And Why Is Peer-Review Important?) (10/20/2022)
• Why Do Historians Treat Jesus Differently from Every Other Historical Figure? (10/19/2022)
• More Interesting Topics in New Testament Studies. Other Writing Assignments for my Undergrads (10/18/2022)
• October Gold Q&A (10/17/2022)
• Suffering, Evil, and the Range Effect  Platinum Guest Post by Dennis J. Folds, Ph.D. (10/17/2022)
• Vote on your favorite Platinum Post: The Next Round! (10/16/2022)
• Interesting Topics in New Testament. My Weekly Writing Assignments for Undergrads (10/16/2022)
• Publishing in Academic Journals (10/15/2022)
• My New Podcast. Help! I Need Questions. (10/14/2022)
• I’ll Be In Denver November 17. Interested in a Blog Dinner? (10/13/2022)
• Getting the PhD in New Testament Studies (10/13/2022)
• How Serendipity Changed My Life: The Apostolic Fathers (10/12/2022)
• What’s It Like to Teach PhD Seminars? (10/11/2022)
• Did the Israelites Practice Human Sacrifice? Platinum Guest Post by Joel Scheller (10/10/2022)
• The Birth of the Trinity – Platinum Webinar September 2022 (10/9/2022)
• When Did Jesus Die? Dating Jesus’ Death by the Earthquake (10/9/2022)
• Would I Be Personally Upset if the Mythicists Were Right (That Jesus Never Existed)? (10/8/2022)
• A Major Forgery in the Hebrew Bible? Guest Post by Platinum Member Dennis Folds (10/6/2022)
• What Serious Research Projects Can Undergraduates Do in Early Christianity? (10/5/2022)
• What’s It Like to Teach at a Research University? (10/4/2022)
• Is Christianity Responsible for Gender Equality and Consent? (10/2/2022)
• How Useful Are Our Earliest New Testament Manuscripts? (10/1/2022)
• The Problem: Not Enough Killing! Platinum Guest Post by Douglas Wadeson (9/30/2022)
• What is it Like to Supervise PhD Dissertations? (9/29/2022)
• What Do Professional Scholars Actually Do? Part 1: Introduction (9/28/2022)
• Understanding the Gospels: Suggested Readings! (9/27/2022)
• Big Questions for Studying the New Testament Gospels (9/25/2022)
• Final Lectures in My Course “The Unknown Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John” (9/24/2022)
• Why Paul Was Persecuted (Or Claimed He Was). Platinum Guest Post by Daniel Kohanski (9/23/2022)
• More on My New Course: The Unknown Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (9/22/2022)
• My New Course: The Unknown Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) (9/21/2022)
• Our Next Platinum Webinar! Tuesday September 27 (9/20/2022)
• September Gold Q&A (9/20/2022)
• Did King David Actually Exist? (9/20/2022)
• Why I Want to Write a Book on Christian Love (9/18/2022)
• Is It Even Possible to Follow Jesus’ Teaching to “Love Your Neighbor as Yourself” (9/17/2022)
• Jesus’ Teachings on Love and Salvation (9/15/2022)
• Who Was The Last Non-Christian Emperor of Rome? (9/14/2022)
• A Funny Story about the Rapture (9/13/2022)
• Is There Anything “Religious” about “Ethics”? (9/11/2022)
• Love. How I’ve Shifted the Focus of My Book on Charity. (9/10/2022)
• Why Even Conservative Christians Should Accept Evolution: Blog Anniversary Guest Post by Michael Shermer (part 2) (9/8/2022)
• Do You Need the Holy Spirit to Interpret the Bible? (9/7/2022)
• I’m Thinking about Starting a Podcast. Your Opinion? (9/6/2022)
• Did the Apostles Use Secretaries to Write their Books? (9/4/2022)
• Why Christians and Conservatives Should Accept Evolution: Blog Anniversary Guest Post by Michael Shermer (part 1) (9/3/2022)
• Vote on your favorite Platinum Post: The Next Round! (9/1/2022)
• Did Ancient Writers Use Secretaries? (9/1/2022)
• How Many People Were Literate in Antiquity? (8/31/2022)
• Studying the New Testament in Graduate School (8/30/2022)
• Did the Romans Stage Jesus’ Crucifixion? Platinum Guest Post by Ryan Fleming (8/29/2022)
• Did Jesus Believe in Armed Resistance to the Romans? (8/28/2022)
• The Canon of the New Testament: Why It Matters (8/27/2022)
• Did Jesus Collaborate with the Romans to Produce His Movement? Platinum Guest Post by Ryan Fleming (8/26/2022)
• Are You Interested in Volunteering for the Blog?? (8/26/2022)
• How Evangelical Apologists Are Changing Their Arguments: Anniversary Guest Post: Kurt Jaros (8/25/2022)
• When Did We Get the Final Canon of the New Testament? (8/24/2022)
• How Did They Decide Which Books to Include in the New Testament Canon? (8/23/2022)
• Did the Romans Help Create the Jesus’ Movement? Platinum Guest Post by Ryan Fleming (8/22/2022)
• Problems in the Gospels–How do YOU Talk to Believers About Them? What Do You Think? (8/21/2022)
• Writings of the Apostles in the Canon of the New Testament (8/20/2022)
• I’m Doing a Speaking Event in Waynesville Next Week! (8/19/2022)
• The Birth of (the Messiah?) John the Baptist? Anniversary Guest Post by James F. McGrath (8/18/2022)
• Why Did Christians Even Need a Canon of Scripture? (8/17/2022)
• Reminder: Ask Me Anything! Tomorrow! (Wed. Aug. 17). (8/16/2022)
• Is That One a Difference or a Contradiction? (8/16/2022)
• The Difference Between Differences and Contradictions (8/14/2022)
• Critical Scholarship from a Sophisticated Faith Perspective. Blog Anniversary Guest Post by Judy Yates Siker (8/13/2022)
• An Equally Strange View of the Crucifixion (8/11/2022)
• August Gold Q&A (8/10/2022)
• The OTHER Apocalypse of Peter (Stranger still…) (8/10/2022)
• Ask Me Anything! Mark Your Calendar. (8/9/2022)
• You Don’t Think Peter Wrote 1 and 2 Peter? (8/9/2022)
• A Major Forgery in the Hebrew Bible? Platinum Guest Post by Dennis Folds (8/8/2022)
• Why Do Some Smart People Just Not Think? (8/7/2022)
• Reading Genesis—Are You Lost in Translation? Anniversary Guest Post by James Tabor (8/6/2022)
• A Writing of Peter that *Barely* Got Into the New Testament (8/4/2022)
• A Letter from Peter to James … Against Paul! (8/3/2022)
• Why Do I “Trash” the Gospels?? (8/2/2022)
• Anyone in/around Asheville NC in August? (8/1/2022)
• Reminder about My Gospels Course This Weekend (8/1/2022)
• Another Book by “Peter” That Could Have Become Scripture (7/31/2022)
• Does God Create People to Roast in Hell? Anniversary Guest Post by Jason Staples (7/30/2022)
• A Book That Nearly Became Scripture: The Apocalypse of Peter (7/28/2022)
• And Then My NEXT Book Project: How Did We Get the Canon of the NT? (7/27/2022)
• Is It Even Possible to Follow Jesus’ Teaching? What Do You Think? (7/26/2022)
• Specious Arguments for the Truth of the Bible (7/24/2022)
• Doing Critical Scholarship as a Committed Christian: Anniversary Guest Post by Jeffrey Siker (7/23/2022)
• Did Christians Invent Hospitals? (7/21/2022)
• Were Early Christians Really Charitable? Or Was It All Talk? (7/20/2022)
• Did Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Write Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? Free video. (7/19/2022)
• Announcing a New Live Course on the Gospels! Interested? (7/18/2022)
• Our Platinum Webinar! Tuesday July 19. (7/17/2022)
• How Could Jesus Be BOTH Divine and Human at Once? An Intriguing Ancient View (7/17/2022)
• Christians Who Reversed Jesus’ Teachings: Wealth is GOOD! (7/16/2022)
• “Redemptive Gifts”: Can Giving to Charity Save Your Soul? (7/14/2022)
• Rescheduled (and RE-scheduled!) Platinum Webinar July 19 (7/13/2022)
• July Gold Q&A (7/13/2022)
• Softening Jesus’ Message on Giving up (Literally) Everything (7/13/2022)
• Early Christianity and War. Guest Post by Dan Kohanski (7/12/2022)
• Did Jesus Insist on Voluntary Poverty? (7/10/2022)
• Mike Licona’s Response to My Post on Contradictions (7/9/2022)
• Does Luke Have Contradictory Views of the Atonement? (7/7/2022)
• If Jesus’ Death Was Not an Atonement: Why Did He Die?? (7/6/2022)
• Does Luke Get Rid of the Atonement? (7/5/2022)
• How Do You Decide What an Author Actually Wrote? The Last Supper (7/3/2022)
• What Did Jesus Say at the Last Supper? (7/2/2022)
• Which James in Galatians? Platinum Guest Post by Gregory Hartzler-Miller (7/2/2022)
• What’s the Point? Hey, *IS* There a Point? The Book of Ecclesiastes (6/30/2022)
• Digging Deep into Afterlife Journeys (6/29/2022)
• Blog Dinner. London. Tuesday, July 12. Interested? (6/28/2022)
• A Skeptical View of Life … From the Bible! (6/28/2022)
• Yeah, Those Are Contradictions. My Response to Firth. (6/26/2022)
• There Are No Contradictions in the Gospels! The Response by Matthew Firth (6/25/2022)
• Onan the Barbarian: How an obscure Bible character affected reproductive rights. Platinum Guest post by Douglas Wadeson MD (6/24/2022)
• Gospel Contradictions: My Debate with Rev. Matthew Firth (6/23/2022)
• Gold members Q&A for June (6/22/2022)
• Check Out this Play in NYC!! (6/22/2022)
• The Invention of Charity: My Prospectus for the Book (6/21/2022)
• An Interesting Interview on Journeys to Heaven and Hell (6/19/2022)
• My book: Literary Forgery and Counterforgery in Early Christianity! (6/18/2022)
• Are Christian Apologists Just Being Dishonest? What Do YOU Think? (6/16/2022)
• Blog Dinner in London? Interested? (6/15/2022)
• Why Not Just Believe in a *Different* Kind of God? (6/15/2022)
• Time Again: Vote on your favorite Platinum Post (6/14/2022)
• Another Historical Scholar’s Understanding of the Resurrection (6/14/2022)
• Interested in Joining Me on a Tour To Tuscany? (6/12/2022)
• And Did Paul Write 2 Thessalonians? (6/11/2022)
• Controversial Me…. (6/9/2022)
• Did Paul Write “Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians”? (6/8/2022)
• An Even More Unusual Story of What Happens to the Rich… (6/7/2022)
• Lazarus and the Rich Man: What To Do with Wealth (6/5/2022)
• Free Webinar on June 12! Did Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Actually Write Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? (6/4/2022)
• How Do You Get a Book Published?? (6/4/2022)
• You Mean Everyone (Except the Truly Destitute) Needs to Give? But How Much? (6/2/2022)
• A Christian NDE and the Problem with Being Filthy Rich (6/1/2022)
• Who Buried Moses? Platinum Guest Post by Lou Suarez (5/31/2022)
• Thomas’s Trip to India and the Problem of Wealth (5/31/2022)
• Apologies to Gold/Platinum Members! (5/30/2022)
• A Lively Interview on my New Book “Journeys” (5/29/2022)
• Concerns for the Poor in the Jewish Tradition (5/28/2022)
• What the Earliest *Christians* Thought About Wealth (5/26/2022)
• Shouldn’t the Upper Classes Help the … Upper Classes? (5/25/2022)
• Does Wealth Make You More … Virtuous? (5/24/2022)
• The Critique of the “Very Reverend Robert Barron” (5/22/2022)
• The Problem with “Time Management” (5/21/2022)
• Early Christianity and War. Platinum Guest Post by Daniel Kohanski (5/20/2022)
• Fabulously Rich But Not Attached to the Lucre (?) (5/19/2022)
• The Ancient Argument for Getting Rid of All Your Wealth (5/18/2022)
• Did Christians Invent Charity? (5/17/2022)
• Reflections on Teaching at UNC-Chapel Hill (5/15/2022)
• My Next Three Books! (5/14/2022)
• May Q&A (5/12/2022)
• Demons and Christians in Antiquity: Guest Post by Travis Proctor (5/12/2022)
• I’m Puzzled about Time. Is there a “Present”? (5/11/2022)
• My Debate With Roman Catholic Apologist Jimmy Akin (5/10/2022)
• Do My Research Assistants Do My Work for Me? (5/8/2022)
• Does the Bible Condemn Homosexuality? Recording of The Blog Webinar (5/7/2022)
•  The Plausibility of the Fourth Gospel: The Sayings of Jesus. Guest Post by Dennis Folds (5/6/2022)
• What’s Eternal Life Like? Ask Paul… (5/5/2022)
• Eternal Life is in the BODY? Really? (5/4/2022)
• Understanding the Future Resurrection of the Dead… (5/3/2022)
• Why Romans Crucified People and Who Was Crucifixion Reserved For? (5/1/2022)
• What Is the Didache & When Was the Didache Written (5/1/2022)
• Was The Messiah Supposed to Be Born of a Virgin? (5/1/2022)
• Does Isaiah 53 Predict Jesus’ Death and Resurrection? Most-Commented Blog Posts: #1 (5/1/2022)
• Why Paul Persecuted the Christians (4/30/2022)
• Pilate Released Barabbas. Really?? (4/30/2022)
• A Reflection on Easter. My Most-Commented Blog Post: #2 (4/30/2022)
• Why Are The Gospels Called Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? (4/29/2022)
• The Plausibility of the Fourth Gospel: The Chronology of Jesus’s Ministry. Platinum Guest Post by Dennis Folds (4/29/2022)
• A Revelatory Moment about God: Most-Commented Blog Post: #3 (4/28/2022)
• A Full Reply to Mythicist Richard Carrier. Most-Commented Blog Post: #4 (4/27/2022)
• The Religion of a Sixteen-Year Old. Most-Commented Blog Post: #5 (4/26/2022)
• Richard Carrier: A Fuller Reply to His Criticisms, Beliefs, and Claims about Jesus (4/25/2022)
• Was Paul the Founder of Christianity? Or Was it Mary, Peter…or Jesus? (4/24/2022)
• Are Paul and Jesus on the Same Page? Most-Commented Blog Post: #6 (4/24/2022)
• Could Jews Bury Crucified Victims? Most-commented Blog Post: #7 (4/23/2022)
• Why Did Judas Betray Jesus? Most-commented Blog Post: #8 (4/21/2022)
• Reminder! A Free Webinar on Saturday on “The Bible and Homosexuality”! (4/20/2022)
• Burials for the Crucified. Most-commented Blog Post: #9 (4/19/2022)
• Why Was Jesus Crucified: Bart Ehrman Crucifixion Thoughts (4/18/2022)
• 10 Year Anniversary for The Bart Ehrman Blog! (4/18/2022)
• The Blog’s TENTH Year Anniversary!! Most-commented Blog Post: #10: My View of Revelation! (4/18/2022)
• Free Webinar!!! Does the Bible Condemn Homosexuality? (4/17/2022)
• More on Nazareth (Or: Why Non-Archaeologists Should Definitely Not Claim to Be Experts) (4/17/2022)
• Did Nazareth Even Exist in the Days of Jesus? The Weird Claims of Rene Salm (4/16/2022)
• The Book of Genesis, the White Jesus, and Debating the Resurrection: Interview with Seth Andrews (4/14/2022)
• Reminder: You can enter the Blogiversary Lottery! (4/13/2022)
• Gold Members Q&A for April! (4/13/2022)
• Jesus and Sexual Immorality (4/13/2022)
• Did Heretics’ Texts Describe Their Incestuous Rituals? (4/13/2022)
• How Can Paul Say that Jesus Appeared to The Twelve? (4/12/2022)
• Fabrication, Forgery, and Accusations of (Heretical) Christian Licentious Rituals! (4/12/2022)
• Teeth Will Be Provided (4/10/2022)
• Does Paul Know That Judas Iscariot Betrayed Jesus? (4/10/2022)
• Christian Pastors Who Have Lost Their Faith (4/9/2022)
• The Apocalypse of John and the Gospel of Jesus: My Final Thoughts (4/9/2022)
• The Criterion of Dissimilarity (4/8/2022)
• Did Early Christians Believe in Reincarnation? (4/8/2022)
• Matthew’s Fulfillment Citations (4/7/2022)
• We Need A Volunteer to Record Audio Versions of the Blog Posts. Interested? (4/7/2022)
• Are the Teachings of Jesus Realistic? Guest Post by Douglas Wadeson (4/7/2022)
• John of Patmos and the Passion for World Domination (4/6/2022)
• Reminder: My Debate on Saturday. Did the Resurrection of Jesus Really Happen? (4/5/2022)
• O Frabjous Day, Callou Callay (4/5/2022)
• Revelation and Ancient Views of Dominance (4/5/2022)
• Wanna join this month’s book club reading? Check it out! (4/4/2022)
• Understanding the Old Testament! Joshua – 2 Kings as the Deuteronomistic History (4/3/2022)
• Why I Am Not A Christian: Is Bart Ehrman a Christian? (4/2/2022)
• If Revelation is All Symbolic, Why Would the Violence *Matter*? (4/2/2022)
• A LOTTERY!! To CELEBRATE the Blog’s 10-Year Blogiversary! (4/1/2022)
• Did Nazareth Exist? (4/1/2022)
• Do Textual Critics Have to be Radical Skeptics? Guest Post by Kurt Jaros (3/31/2022)
• The Most Violent Passage in Revelation, in My View: (3/30/2022)
• Two of the Most Violent Passages in Revelation (3/29/2022)
• Does Paul Condemn Slavery? The Surprising Answer–Paul and Philemon (3/27/2022)
• What Do You Think? Is There a Reason to Be Religious If There Is No Afterlife? (3/26/2022)
• Is the Sacrificed Lamb of God Violent? More Reflections on Revelation (3/24/2022)
• Is the Apocalypse of John a Book of Hope? (3/23/2022)
• When I First Read the Book of Revelation…. (3/22/2022)
• Vote on your favorite Platinum Post! (3/21/2022)
• When Did the Bible Get Chapters and Verses? (3/20/2022)
• Faith and Inerrancy, In My Case — Did the “Young Ehrman” Get it Wrong? (3/19/2022)
• The “Young Ehrman’s” Faulty Understanding of Inspiration (3/18/2022)
• Upcoming Debate and Possible Blog Breakfast? Anyone in San Diego March 24? (3/17/2022)
• Explanations for Why I Left the Faith (3/17/2022)
• Gold Q & A: March 2022! (3/16/2022)
• Memories of Ukraine. Guest Post by Douglas Wadeson, MD (3/16/2022)
• An Eyewitness Account of Jesus’ Crucifixion! (3/16/2022)
• Debate Announcement! Did the Resurrection of Jesus Really Happen? Two Bible Scholars Debate the Evidence (3/15/2022)
• Want a Recording of Upcoming Ukraine Lecture: “Who Killed Jesus? And Why?” ? (3/14/2022)
• Our Ukraine Fundraiser: For those who can’t afford it and for those who can donate for them (3/14/2022)
• How Luke Rewrote Matthew’s Nativity Story Platinum Guest Post by Dennis J. Folds (3/14/2022)
• Young Jesus with the Brahmins in India! (3/13/2022)
• Fundraiser for Ukraine. Lecture on “Who Killed Jesus? And Why?” (3/12/2022)
• Interested in Going to Rome with Me? (3/12/2022)
• A Humorous Modern Gospel Forgery (3/10/2022)
• Why Date the Gospels after 70 CE? (3/9/2022)
• An Intense Back and Forth on Key Issues (3/8/2022)
• “In the Beginning” (Part 2) (3/6/2022)
• In the Beginning: Myth, Legend, and History in the Book of Genesis (Part 1) (3/5/2022)
• Don’t Forget! Ask Bart Anything: Sunday!! (3/4/2022)
• Sting and Thomas. Guest Post by Evyatar Marienberg (3/3/2022)
• Sting and Pilate. Guest Post by Evyatar Marienberg (3/2/2022)
• Forgery for a Scholarly Audience (3/1/2022)
• Forgery for a General Audience (2/27/2022)
• Ask Bart Anything! Blog Event March 6 (2/26/2022)
• How Would We Know If We Found an “Original” Manuscript? (2/26/2022)
• Platinum Webinar! March 8. Why Is the Apocalypse of Peter Not in the New Testament? (2/25/2022)
• What If Damascus Was In Arabia? Solving a Dilemma in the Life of Paul. Platinum Guest Post by Gregory Hartzler-Miller (2/25/2022)
• Must Jesus Divide Families? Guest post by Douglas Wadeson (2/24/2022)
• Did I Have an Errant View of Inerrancy? (!) Guest Video Post by Kurt Jaros (#5) (2/23/2022)
• February Gold Q&A: Ask your Questions! (2/22/2022)
• Heaven and Hell at the Scholarly Level (for comparison) (2/22/2022)
• Heaven and Hell at the Popular Level (2/20/2022)
• The Messages of Jesus and Paul: Basically the Same or Fundamentally Different? (2/19/2022)
• Jesus and Paul: Are They on the Same Page? (2/17/2022)
• Would Anyone *Invent* the Story of the Women at the Tomb? (2/16/2022)
• (Re)Thinking Everything. Guest Post by Glenn Siepert (2/14/2022)
• My Response to A Book That Responded To My Book: How Jesus Became God (2/13/2022)
• The Heart of Jesus’ Message (2/12/2022)
• Preface to My Book on Revelation: Expecting Armageddon (2/10/2022)
• Still Other Models of Salvation in Paul (2/9/2022)
• Paul’s Models of Salvation: Contradictory or Complementary? (2/8/2022)
• The “Common Era”: Invented to Stop Speculations About the End of the World. Platinum Guest Post by Daniel Kohanski (2/7/2022)
• Paul’s “Participationist” Model of Salvation. (2/6/2022)
• Do We Have Any Reliable Sources for Pontius Pilate? (2/5/2022)
• Are the Teachings of Jesus Realistic? Platinum guest post by Douglas Wadeson (2/4/2022)
• How Did Paul Understand Salvation? The “Judicial” Model (2/3/2022)
• What Was Paul’s Innovation? (2/2/2022)
• What Do You Think? What’s It Mean to Study Religion in a Secular University? (2/1/2022)
• Vote for your favorite Platinum Guest Post! (1/31/2022)
• How Important Was Paul, Actually, For Early Christianity? (1/30/2022)
• Reminder! Live Lectures Tomorrow (Sunday 1/30/2022) (1/29/2022)
• Did Paul Invent Jesus’ Resurrection? (1/29/2022)
• An Old Interview on Fresh Air: How Jesus Became God (1/27/2022)
• Major Perspectives of Ancient Jewish (and Jesus’!) Apocalyptic Views (1/26/2022)
• Where Did the Apocalyptic Views of Jesus (and others) Come From? (1/25/2022)
• Reminder! My Remote Book Event, This Thursday (1/24/2022)
• Are the Gospels Too Early To Have Legends About Jesus? Platinum Guest Post by Bob Seidensticker (1/23/2022)
• The Maccabean Revolt (1/23/2022)
• What Is The Difference Between an Evangelical and a Fundamentalist? (1/22/2022)
• The Prophets of Scripture: A Brief Summary of their Message and Mission (1/20/2022)
• The Message of First Isaiah (1/19/2022)
• Special Live Event: What Book Should I Write Next? (1/18/2022)
• A Particularly Intriguing Podcast Interview: Jesus, the Bible, and Early Christianity (1/18/2022)
• Is the Book of Isaiah the Books of Three “Isaiahs”? (1/16/2022)
• How Can We Understand the Prophets of the Hebrew Bible? Isaiah as a Case Study (1/15/2022)
• Did My Shift in Thinking Destroy my Own Views? Guest Video Post #4 by Kurt Jaros (1/13/2022)
• Aren’t They Predicting the Future? More on the Prophets of the Old Testament (1/12/2022)
• Gold Q&A for January! (1/11/2022)
• They Ain’t Who You Think: Prophets in the Old Testament (1/11/2022)
• The Famous Short Stories about Daniel (1/9/2022)
• Jewish Indifference to Jesus and the Problems it Caused: Guest Post by Dan Kohanski (1/8/2022)
• A New Course to Watch (Live!) Remotely: “In the Beginning” (1/7/2022)
• Did you know that Gold Members can get the full audio feed in their favorite Podcast Player? (1/6/2022)
• How I Begin My Book on Revelation (1/6/2022)
• Did Abraham Actually Do It? Did He Sacrifice His Son Isaac? Platinum Guest Post by Douglas Wadeson (1/5/2022)
• My Pet Peeve: Simplistic Answers to Explain Suffering (1/5/2022)
• Bart Behaving Badly: Podcasts on the Problem of Suffering (1/2/2022)
• End of the Year Assessment: The Blog, 2021 (12/31/2021)
• What I’m Reading These Days. You? (12/29/2021)
• On Misreading The Gospels: Platinum Guest Post by Joel Scheller (12/28/2021)
• The Bible’s Best Known Short Story: Jonah (12/28/2021)
• Gold Q&A (Slight Delay) (12/27/2021)
• Evangelical Support for Misquoting Jesus: Kurt Jaros, Guest Post #3 (12/26/2021)
• Which King of the Jews Do You Prefer? Christmas Message, 2021 (12/25/2021)
• Two Apocryphal Short Stories (12/23/2021)
• A Better Kind of Fundamentalist! (12/22/2021)
• Recording of Platinum Webinar: Six Versions of the Advent of Jesus (12/21/2021)
• If Only I Were the *Right* Kind of Fundamentalist…. (12/21/2021)
• Gold Q&A for December! Ask Away…. (12/19/2021)
• Another Fantastic Scriptural Short Story: Esther (12/19/2021)
• End of the Year Option? (12/18/2021)
• Reminder! Platinum Webinar on Saturday. You Platinums Only! (12/16/2021)
• Terrific or Terrible? What’s Your View of Christmas? (12/16/2021)
• Vote for your Favorite Platinum Guest Post! (12/15/2021)
• Strawmanning Ehrman: Guest Post by Kurt Jaros (12/15/2021)
• A Suggestive Story in the Book of Ruth (12/14/2021)
• Do You Want (and Need) a Free Membership to the Blog? Gift Offer 2021 (12/13/2021)
• A Great Short Story in Scripture: The Book of Ruth (12/12/2021)
• Why Doesn’t Paul Say More about the Historical Jesus? Other Options. (12/11/2021)