Complete Post Archive in List Format
This archive page provides users access to all the blog posts since the very beginning, in descending order followed by the date of publication. Each page generates 500 posts as limited by the memory allocation. A simple pagination feature is found at the bottom of the list, to click through to each set of 500 posts each.
- Nazis and the Meaning of the Word “Jew”: Guest Post by Jason Staples (7/24/2021)
- Platinum Members Only! Vote for your Favorite Platinum Guest Post (7/22/2021)
- Is Revelation Describing Warfare in the Twenty-first Century?? (7/22/2021)
- Problems with Comments on Revelation! (7/21/2021)
- An Interview about Heaven and Hell: American Freethought Podcast (7/21/2021)
- Jesus the Healer: Those Darn Demons. Platinum guest post by Douglas Wadeson MD (7/20/2021)
- Is the Book of Revelation a Revised Version of a Non-Christian Apocalypse? Guest Post by James Tabor (7/20/2021)
- Interested in Hearing Three of My Lectures? Jesus according to the Early Christians (7/18/2021)
- The Historical Background to the Book of Revelation (7/17/2021)
- Does Revelation Contain an Eyewitness Account of the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius? Guest Post by James Tabor (7/15/2021)
- Comments on Blog Comments! (7/14/2021)
- Prophecies and Saints in the Book of Daniel. Platinum Guest Post by Daniel Kohanski (7/13/2021)
- Understanding Revelation: A Sine Qua Non (Overlooked by most readers) (7/13/2021)
- Metzger, the Squirrel, and Me (…and Jesus). (7/11/2021)
- My Mentor Bruce Metzger and the Infamous Squirrel (7/10/2021)
- Gold Q&A for July 2021! (7/9/2021)
- How I Take Notes When Doing Research for a Book (7/8/2021)
- Apocalypse (the genre) and Apocalypticism (the worldview) (7/7/2021)
- The Book of Revelation and the END. Starting at the Beginning. (7/6/2021)
- Memories of Bruce Metzger: When I First Realized I Couldn’t Write (7/4/2021)
- My Mentor Bruce Metzger (7/3/2021)
- Was Jesus Like One of the Pagan Fertility Gods? (7/1/2021)
- Blog Dinner in London? (6/30/2021)
- Other Gods Who Died and Rose from the Dead? (6/30/2021)
- Some Intriguing Questions about Jesus’ Predictions and Mental Health (6/29/2021)
- An Unusual Interview with an Ex-Muslim, Informed, Atheist (6/27/2021)
- Fiction and Fact, Legend and History. Is it Either / Or? (6/26/2021)
- Texts and Towns that Allegedly Didn’t Exist (So Did Jesus?) (6/24/2021)
- How Do We Know If Jesus Did Something? (6/23/2021)
- Some Key Evidence for Jesus (6/22/2021)
- Why My Book on Revelation Has Been Different To Write (6/20/2021)
- The Reconstruction of Q: Platinum Guest Post by Steve Sutter (6/19/2021)
- What About Other References to Jesus Outside the New Testament? (6/19/2021)
- Evidence for Jesus Outside the New Testament: Part 2 of My Exchange with Ben Witherington (6/17/2021)
- Why I Wrote my book Did Jesus Exist? Interview with Evangelical Scholar Ben Witherington (6/16/2021)
- How Then Do Most Ancient Manuscripts Get Discovered? (6/15/2021)
- The Issue of “Tenure” for Professors (6/13/2021)
- Gold Q&A for June! (6/12/2021)
- What Kind of Ancient Christian Books Might Be Discovered? (6/12/2021)
- Final Live Lecture on Jesus as The Christians Saw Him: SATURDAY! (6/10/2021)
- The Trinity! A Final Summation (6/10/2021)
- The Coming of the Holy Spirit in John: A Key to the Trinity (6/9/2021)
- Confusing Messages about Jesus and the Father: John 14 (6/8/2021)
- Jesus’ Final Speech in John: A Lead-up to the Coming of the Spirit (6/6/2021)
- My Response To Conservative Critics. An Interview on the MythVision Podcast (6/5/2021)
- You Don’t Want To Blaspheme the Spirit! But What’s It Mean? (6/3/2021)
- Blog Zoom Lecture This Saturday: Jesus as a Young Boy! (6/2/2021)
- The Spirit in the Life of Jesus (6/2/2021)
- The Holy Spirit in Charge of the Church (?) (6/1/2021)
- What About Authors Who “Just Want to Sell Books”? (5/30/2021)
- The Coming of the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost (5/29/2021)
- What We Know Today About Religions and the Afterlife (in the US): Platinum Guest Post by Sharon Friedman (5/27/2021)
- Are There Actually Five Letters in 2 Corinthians (so that it is 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 Corinthians?) (5/27/2021)
- Several Letters in One? What about Second Corinthians? (5/26/2021)
- The Coming of the Spirit at the End of Time (5/25/2021)
- Jesus according to the Christians: A Three-Part Blog Lecture Series (5/24/2021)
- On Being an Agnostic Atheist (5/23/2021)
- Paul’s (Misunderstood) Message to His Corinthian Converts (5/22/2021)
- How Paul Started the Church in Corinth (5/20/2021)
- Paul and that Peculiar Church in Corinth (5/19/2021)
- Wanna Go To Northern Italy with Me in September? (5/18/2021)
- Gold Members Month of May Q&A (5/18/2021)
- How the “Delay” of the End (Jesus’ Return) Affected Paul’s Communities (5/18/2021)
- Why the Spirit Mattered for the Earliest Christians (5/16/2021)
- More Recent Scholarship on Who Wrote the Pentateuch (5/15/2021)
- Who Really Wrote the Pentateuch (if not Moses)? The JEDP Hypothesis (5/13/2021)
- More Inconsistencies in the Pentateuch (5/12/2021)
- Two (Contradictory?) Accounts of Creation in Genesis? (5/11/2021)
- Who Wrote the Pentateuch Anyway? (5/9/2021)
- Women and their Demons in the Life of Jesus: Guest Post by James McGrath (5/8/2021)
- The Spirit of God in the Old Testament (5/6/2021)
- How Did the Holy Spirit Get Into the Trinity? In the Beginning…. (5/5/2021)
- Was Paul Peter’s Enemy? (5/4/2021)
- The Council of Nicaea and The Resulting View of Christ (5/2/2021)
- YHWH and Jehovah: Same? Different? Where’s Jehovah Come From? (5/1/2021)
- Jesus Under the Influence (of Women): Guest Post by James McGrath (4/29/2021)
- The Letter Jesus Wrote from the Cross (!) (4/28/2021)
- My Smithsonian Seminar: This Saturday!! (4/27/2021)
- Live Chance to Ask Me Anything! This Sunday! (4/27/2021)
- Another Letter Written By Jesus? Stranger and Stranger… (4/27/2021)
- Volunteer Needed to Read Audio Posts! (4/26/2021)
- Other New Testament References to Books Outside the Hebrew Bible: Platinum Guest Post by Doug Wadeson (4/26/2021)
- You Call *This* a Heresy? The Views of Arius, In His Own Words (4/25/2021)
- A Heresy that May Not Sound Heretical to You: Arius of Alexandria (4/24/2021)
- Got a Question for Me? Gold Q & A for April! (4/23/2021)
- Did Paul the Pharisee Learn about Christianity from his Relative, the Apostle Junia? Guest Post by James McGrath (4/22/2021)
- Do We Have Any of Jesus’ Writings? (The Answer May Surprise You!) (4/21/2021)
- Two Live Lectures on Sunday: The End is Near! (4/20/2021)
- Could Jesus Read? (4/20/2021)
- How Could Christ Be Both God and a Human — At Once? The Unusual View of Origen (4/18/2021)
- Nope Jesus is Not Yahweh (4/17/2021)
- Paul’s Community at Corinth (4/16/2021)
- Is Jesus Yahweh? (4/15/2021)
- How Yahweh of the Israelites Became God of All: Platinum Guest Post by Dan Kohanski (4/14/2021)
- Two More Live Lectures this Sunday! (4/14/2021)
- Fifty Ways to Forge a Gospel (4/14/2021)
- Was Marcion a Gnostic? (4/13/2021)
- The Earliest Views of the Trinity (Long after the New Testament) (4/11/2021)
- How Can the Father and the Son Be the SAME? Can Your Father Also Be Your Son? (4/10/2021)
- Are God and Christ the SAME Person? (4/8/2021)
- Two Live Lectures This Sunday, On Hot Topics (4/7/2021)
- The Importance of What Is Lost: Paul’s Letters (4/7/2021)
- When Belief Dies Guest Post by Sam Devis! (4/6/2021)
- Did the Disciples See Jesus Raised from the Dead? (4/4/2021)
- How The Afterlife Changed After Jesus’ Life (4/3/2021)
- A Probing Interview on “When Belief Dies Podcast” (4/1/2021)
- Were Jesus and Christ Two Different Beings? (3/31/2021)
- What Is Gnosticism? A Video Introduction (3/30/2021)
- A Live Lecture, this SATURDAY (April 3): The Ethics of Paul (3/29/2021)
- Fantastic Story. But History? Some Doubts about the Triumphal Entry (3/28/2021)
- Did Jesus Really Have a “Triumphal Entry” into Jerusalem? (3/27/2021)
- Modern Christians Who Follow Marcion (Unawares) (3/25/2021)
- Quotations of Non-Canonical Writings in the New Testament: Platinum Post by Douglas Wadeson (3/24/2021)
- Did Marcion Know the Gospels or Not?? (3/24/2021)
- Gold Members: Audio Q&A! This week! (3/23/2021)
- Live Lectures This Sunday, March 28! Teachings of Paul That Are Widely Unknown. (3/23/2021)
- More on Marcion’s Theology (3/23/2021)
- Lost Christian Writings I’d Love to Get My Hands On! (3/21/2021)
- A Phantom Jesus: The Teachings of the Second-Century Marcion (3/20/2021)
- The Value of Amulets for Reconstructing the New Testament Text: Guest Post by Brice Jones (3/18/2021)
- Announcing the Ehrman Blog Newsletter – Please Check Your Email! (3/17/2021)
- Two Live Lectures, Sunday March 21: The Death of Jesus and the Life of Paul. (3/17/2021)
- Christ as Non-Human (but fully God) in the Early Second Century (3/17/2021)
- Was Christ So Divine That He Was Not Human? The “Antichrists” of 1 John (3/16/2021)
- How to Make Sense of (or at least Peace with) What’s Strange in the Bible: Guest Post by Kristin Swenson (3/14/2021)
- Was Christ Human But Not Divine? Another Early Christian View (3/13/2021)
- Two More Live Lectures on Sunday, one of them very strange…. (3/12/2021)
- What Are the Sources of the Hebrew Bible? (3/11/2021)
- Christ as “Not God” in the Second Century: Early Jewish Adoptionists (3/10/2021)
- Was Matthew Influenced by Buddhist Writings? Platinum Post by Steve Sutter (3/9/2021)
- Where Did the Trinity Come From? The (Briefer) Video Version (3/9/2021)
- The Doctrine of the Trinity: Where We Are So Far (3/7/2021)
- Another Weird Event in my Life that Led Me to Be a Research Scholar (3/6/2021)
- God Showing Up a (Apparently) Human in the Hebrew Bible (3/4/2021)
- TWO Live Lectures This Sunday (We’ve Changed The Plan…)! How Do We Know about the Historical Jesus? and Jesus, The Apocalyptic Prophet (3/3/2021)
- The Divine Realm in Antiquity (Appropriately: A Pyramid!) (3/3/2021)
- Apologies about the Comments! (3/2/2021)
- Christian Attitudes toward War, Through the Ages: Platinum Post by Dan Kohanski (3/2/2021)
- The Stories We Tell: Guest Post by Robin Jones (3/2/2021)
- In What SENSE is Jesus “God” in Matthew, Mark, and Luke? My Change of Mind (2/28/2021)
- What Did Ancient People Think It Meant To Call Someone God? (2/27/2021)
- Wanna Go to Croatia with Me? (2/25/2021)
- More Live Lectures this Sunday: The Gospel of John and Early Christian Gnosticism! (2/24/2021)
- An Intriguing but Most Peculiar Book! Guest Post by Kristin Swenson (2/24/2021)
- The Buddhist Scriptures and the Gospel of Luke: Platinum Post by Steve Sutter (2/23/2021)
- My Interview About Jesus for “The Dagger Squad” (2/23/2021)
- Is the “Word” (Logos) of God in John the Wisdom (Sophia) of God in Judaism? (2/21/2021)
- A Christian Is Not Necessarily a Disciple (Monthly Platinum Post: Douglas Wadeson) (2/20/2021)
- Interested in Going to Rome with Me? (2/19/2021)
- Does Luke Present Different (Inconsistent!) Views of Christ? (2/18/2021)
- Live Lectures this Sunday! Distinctive Messages of Luke and John (2/17/2021)
- How Old Was Jesus ??? (2/17/2021)
- But Maybe Paul Doesn’t Believe in the Incarnation…. (2/16/2021)
- Was Christ actually God in the Flesh? (2/16/2021)
- Reminder! A Live Chance to “Ask Bart Anything” (ABA) this Wednesday 2/17/2021 (2/13/2021)
- One of the Weird Events in My Life that Led Me To Be A Research Scholar (2/13/2021)
- Blog Announcement! The Full Implementation of our New Tier Membership System (2/12/2021)
- The Essence of Religious Literacy: A Christian Perspective. Platinum Guest Post by Fredrick Ackun (2/11/2021)
- Interview about My Writing with the North Carolina Writers’ Network (2/11/2021)
- Live Lecture This Sunday! Do Christians Need to Be Jews? Understanding the Gospel of Matthew. (2/10/2021)
- More Comments on Paul’s Rather Astounding Christ Poem (2/10/2021)
- One of the Most Important Passages of the NT: Paul’s Christ Poem (2/9/2021)
- An Alternative Christology: God Became Human (2/7/2021)
- Personal Post: My Work Habits (2/6/2021)
- Platinum Members! Vote for your Favorite Platinum Post (2/4/2021)
- The Oldest View of Christ: Found in Only One Greek Manuscript of Luke! (2/4/2021)
- Ask Bart Anything! Live Zoom Chance for you to Pick My Brain and/or Stump Me (2/3/2021)
- When Did Jesus Become Divine? (2/3/2021)
- Even Giants Have a Cross to Bear: Platinum Post by Marie Wiley (2/2/2021)
- Another Two Lectures on the Gospels, Live on Sunday. Join Us! (2/2/2021)
- Very Early Understandings of Christ in A Later Book of the NT (2/2/2021)
- Jesus, Mary Magadalene, and … Sexual Innuendos? (1/31/2021)
- The Earliest Belief in Christ?? (1/30/2021)
- Do You Want to Hear Two More Lectures on the Gospels? (1/28/2021)
- How Do We Know What Christians Thought about Jesus BEFORE the New Testament? (1/28/2021)
- Platinum Guest Post by Douglas Wadeson: A Christian Is Not Necessarily a Disciple, and Vice Versa. Part 2 (1/27/2021)
- The Earliest Understandings of Christ (1/27/2021)
- My Materialist View of the World (1/26/2021)
- Was the King of Israel Called God?? (1/23/2021)
- Want to Hear Me Give a Live Lecture? (1/21/2021)
- Could Jews Consider Someone Other than God To Be God? (1/21/2021)
- Did Humans Ever Become Divine in Judaism? (Seems unlikely, no?) (1/20/2021)
- A Christian is Not Necessarily a Disciple: Platinum Post by Douglas Wadeson (1/18/2021)
- Guest Post Part 2 by New Testament Scholar Jeff Siker: Why I Am Still a Christian (1/18/2021)
- Guest Post by New Testament Scholar Jeff Siker: Why I am Still a Christian (1/17/2021)
- Still Other Humans Who Became Gods: In Jesus’ Time! (1/16/2021)
- Could a Human Become a God in the Ancient World? (1/14/2021)
- Were Ancient Pagans Sometimes Monotheists? (1/13/2021)
- Were Ancient Israelites Actually Monotheists? (1/12/2021)
- Platinum Guest Post by Steve Sutter: The Buddhist Influence on the Gospel of Luke (1/11/2021)
- The God Jesus, In Competition (1/10/2021)
- Gold Members Only Audio Q&A (1/9/2021)
- Platinum Members Webinar! (1/9/2021)
- One of the Most Significant Passages in the NT: Paul’s Christ Poem (1/9/2021)
- How the Trinity Got Into the New Testament: Part 2 (1/9/2021)
- How the Trinity Got Into the New Testament (1/7/2021)
- Is the Trinity in the Bible? (1/6/2021)
- No Virgin Births? Then How Were Demi-gods Born In Antiquity? (1/5/2021)
- What About All Those *Other* Virgin Births in Antiquity? (1/3/2021)
- With Respect to Others Who Did Not Like My Newsweek Article (1/2/2021)
- The Blog Year in Review, 2020 (12/31/2020)
- Responses to my Newsweek Article on Jesus (12/30/2020)
- Love Your Neighbor as Yourself. Platinum Post by Marie Wiley (12/29/2020)
- Where is the Virgin Birth in John? (12/28/2020)
- Does the Gospel of Mark Deny a Virgin Birth? (12/27/2020)
- Want To See My New Book Manuscript? A Blog Fundraiser (12/26/2020)
- Christmas 2020 (12/25/2020)
- Was Jesus Born in Bethlehem? Luke’s Version. (12/24/2020)
- Was Jesus Born in Bethlehem? Matthew’s Version…. (12/23/2020)
- Do Christians Have to Believe in the Virgin Birth? (12/20/2020)
- My Article on Christmas in Newsweek: Part 2 (12/19/2020)
- My Article on Christmas in Newsweek (12/17/2020)
- Christmas from a Historical Point of View (12/16/2020)
- A Holiday Season Request! (12/15/2020)
- An Apocryphal Story of Mary’s Conception of Jesus (12/15/2020)
- A Different Account of Joseph and Mary! (12/13/2020)
- Is Suffering a Problem for Those Who Suffer? (12/12/2020)
- How Then Can We Believe? (12/10/2020)
- Facing the Problem of Suffering Head-on (12/9/2020)
- Are You Interested in a Platinum Membership? (12/8/2020)
- Human Suffering and the Christian Faith (12/6/2020)
- My Struggle With Why There Is Suffering (12/5/2020)
- Paul Dictated His Letters: How Does *That* Complicate Finding an Original? (12/3/2020)
- Why Finding an “Original” Text is So Unexpectedly Complicated (12/2/2020)
- What Does It Even Mean to Have an “Original” of An Ancient Writing? (12/1/2020)
- Could Paul’s Letter to the Philippians be TWO Letters? (11/29/2020)
- A Fund-Raising Webinar: What Can We Really Know about the Birth of Jesus?? (11/27/2020)
- Do We Have Paul’s Original Letter to the Philippians? (11/27/2020)
- Thanksgiving 2020 (11/26/2020)
- Christian Manuscripts Used for Magic? (11/25/2020)
- What Really Happened at Jesus’ Trial Before Pilate? (11/23/2020)
- Some Feedback on the New Blog ?? (11/22/2020)
- “Oral” Changes in the Christian Bible? (11/22/2020)
- On Ignorant Critics… (11/20/2020)
- Why Scribes Changed Their Manuscripts (11/19/2020)
- Peter and Mary Magdalene in Competition (11/18/2020)
- Is Mary Magdalene the Founder of Christianity? (11/16/2020)
- Women Apostles in Early Christianity (11/15/2020)
- The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (11/13/2020)
- 666: The Number of the Beast (11/12/2020)
- The Number 666 in the Context of the Book of Revelation (11/11/2020)
- Interested in Volunteering for the Blog? (11/10/2020)
- Luke and Matthew at Odds: The Genealogies (11/9/2020)
- Another Unusual Feature of Matthew’s Genealogy: The Women! (11/8/2020)
- A Numerical Puzzle in Matthew’s Genealogy (11/7/2020)
- Curiosities and Puzzles from the Very First Passage of the New Testament (11/5/2020)
- Ancient Numerical Interpretations of the Bible (11/4/2020)
- Comments on the Blog (11/3/2020)
- Why Do Some People Make Such Bad Arguments for the Superiority of their Religion? (11/2/2020)
- Speaking Event This Thursday and Friday (4 lectures, remote) (11/1/2020)
- Are the Gospels Right? Did Pilate Really Release a Prisoner at Passover? (11/1/2020)
- Where Did the Idea of a “Suffering Messiah” Come From? (10/30/2020)
- How Hard It is To Become an Agnostic…. (10/29/2020)
- Did Jesus’ Disciple John Write the Gospel of “John”? (10/28/2020)
- How Were the Gnostic Gospels Discovered? (10/26/2020)
- How Do Popular Books Get Their Titles? (10/25/2020)
- My Privileged View of Suffering (10/23/2020)
- The Original Blog Post!! Misquoting Misquoting Jesus! (10/22/2020)
- Welcome to the New Blog Site! (10/21/2020)
- Who Would Die for a Lie? (10/12/2020)
- What Happens When Your Beliefs Contradict What You Have To Teach? Readers’ Mailbag (10/11/2020)
- A Major Blog Announcement!! (10/9/2020)
- John, the Bedbugs, and Miracles that Convert (10/8/2020)
- Who Would *Invent* the Idea that Women (?!) Discovered Jesus’ Empty Tomb? (10/7/2020)
- A Celebratory Moment for the Blog (10/5/2020)
- Hard Evidence that the Book of Acts was Written by an Eyewitness? (10/4/2020)
- Why Believe in God? (10/2/2020)
- The Roman Standards Worship Jesus? From the Gospel of Nicodemus (10/1/2020)
- A Gospel of Nicodemus? (9/30/2020)
- Another Important Evangelical Charity: Guest Post by Robin Jones (9/28/2020)
- The Tragedy Behind My Teaching Position (9/27/2020)
- Some Intriguing Selections from the Gospel of Peter (9/25/2020)
- A Very Odd Saying of Jesus (9/24/2020)
- And Now: The Gospel of Peter! (9/23/2020)
- Jesus’ Twin Brother? Really? Readers’ Mailbag (9/21/2020)
- Inclusive Language in Bible Translation? (9/20/2020)
- Translating the Bible (and other ancient texts) (9/18/2020)
- The Secret Message of the Gospel of Thomas (9/17/2020)
- The Gospel of Thomas: Some Basic Information (9/16/2020)
- Our Most Important Gospel from Outside the NT: The Gospel of Thomas (9/14/2020)
- Gospel Questions and Problems (9/13/2020)
- An Unusual Podcast Interview with a Muslim about How I Debate. Check This One Out! (9/11/2020)
- Jesus’ Death in Mark and Luke: Why Don’t They Agree? (9/10/2020)
- All Day Seminar (Online) for the Smithsonian: This Saturday! (9/9/2020)
- The Calm and Collected Jesus (9/7/2020)
- The Earliest Infancy Gospel: Some of the Critical Problems (9/6/2020)
- Jesus as a Boy? The Infancy Gospel of Thomas (9/4/2020)
- How I Do My Research (9/3/2020)
- Two More Answers from My Pop Quiz (9/2/2020)
- More Member Publications! (8/31/2020)
- Does Basic Information about the NT *Matter*? My Pop Quiz (8/30/2020)
- Paul’s Ascent to Paradise. Guest Post by James Tabor (8/28/2020)
- What Is the Unforgivable Sin? Readers’ Mailbag. (8/27/2020)
- My Faux Pop Quiz this Semester (8/26/2020)
- My Early Christian Apocrypha Seminar (8/24/2020)
- At Last. Jesus and the Son of Man. (8/23/2020)
- Smith-Pettit Lecture – The History of Heaven and Hell (8/21/2020)
- The Flukes of Life and My Teaching Career (8/20/2020)
- “The Case for Christ”? The New Testament Review Podcast (8/19/2020)
- How Jesus’ Apocalyptic Teachings Were Changed (even in the NT) (8/17/2020)
- Jesus in Scholarship and Film (8/16/2020)
- A Podcast of Interest to You! Guest post by Ian Mills and Laura Robinson (8/14/2020)
- Did Jesus Think He Would Be the Judge of the Earth? (8/13/2020)
- How Do You Know If Jesus Said That? (8/12/2020)
- A Bit of a Shocker: Jesus and the Son of Man (8/10/2020)
- Who Is the Son of Man? From the Blog Readers’ Mailbag (8/9/2020)
- The Opening Section of the Gospel of Judas (8/7/2020)
- What is the Gospel of Judas About? (8/5/2020)
- Sethian Gnostics and the Gospel of Judas (8/4/2020)
- Will “All Israel” Be Saved? Really? Guest Post by Jason Staples (8/3/2020)
- Apology to the Blog (8/3/2020)
- What Is Gnosticism? (8/2/2020)
- Evangelicals Who Make the World A Better Place. Guest Post by Robin Jones (7/31/2020)
- A Very Odd Story about the Baby Jesus (7/29/2020)
- When Paul Says “Israel” Does He Mean “The Jews”? Guest Post by Jason Staples (7/28/2020)
- Seeing the Gospel of Judas for the First Time (7/27/2020)
- Why Do Are So Many Textual Critics Evangelicals? Readers’ Mailbag. (7/26/2020)
- Did Paul Really Think “All Israel Will Be Saved”? Guest Post by Jason Staples (7/24/2020)
- When I Learned the Gospel of Judas Had Been Discovered (7/22/2020)
- Christianizing the Old Testament and the Museum of the Bible: Guest Post by Jill Hicks-Keeton (7/21/2020)
- How I First Learned About the Gospel of Judas Iscariot (7/20/2020)
- Why Would An Atheist Teach the Bible? Readers’ Mailbag (7/19/2020)
- Proving the Bible Is True: The Museum of the Bible. Guest Post by Cavan Concannon (7/17/2020)
- Slurs Against Religious Opponents and Makin’ Stuff Up (7/15/2020)
- Did Early Christian Heretics Promote Outrageous Sex Rituals? (7/14/2020)
- New Book on Museum of the Bible: Guest Post by the Editors Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon (7/13/2020)
- The Outrageous Immorality of Early Christians (!) (?) (7/12/2020)
- Did the Benefits of the Christian Community Win Converts? Readers’ Mailbag. (7/10/2020)
- Would You Like a Free Three-Month Membership to the Blog? (7/9/2020)
- Publications By Blog Members! 7.9.20 (7/9/2020)
- Why Is This Happening To Us? (7/8/2020)
- Reason and Theology – Heaven, Hell and the Afterlife (7/7/2020)
- An Intriguing New Documentary: The Search – Manufacturing Belief (7/6/2020)
- Are You Willing to Donate a Free Membership (or more) To Someone Who Needs It? (7/5/2020)
- Do Matthew and Paul Agree on the Matter Most Important to them Both? (7/3/2020)
- How Accurate are our Copies of the Hebrew Bible? (7/1/2020)
- Was Jesus Connected with the Dead Sea Scrolls Community? (6/30/2020)
- Randy Alcorn’s Response to Some Blog Criticisms (part 2) (6/29/2020)
- The Importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Understanding Jesus: Readers’ Mailbag (6/28/2020)
- Do You Have Advanced Training In any of the Blog’s Fields? (6/26/2020)
- Randy Alcorn Explains His Review In Light of Readers’ Comments (6/26/2020)
- Did You Register for the Webinar on Sunday? (6/25/2020)
- How Do We Interpret the Beatitudes? Guest Post by Julius-Kei Kato (6/24/2020)
- What Are The Dead Sea Scrolls? (6/23/2020)
- Blog Member Publications! 6.22.2020 (6/22/2020)
- Bart’s Latest Attack on Christianity by Randy Alcorn (6/21/2020)
- A Plea for Humility in the Face of the Universe (6/19/2020)
- Reminder! A Webinar for You? Topic: Do We Have the Original New Testament? (6/18/2020)
- Weren’t Jesus’ Followers Armed and Eager to Fight in the Garden of Gethsemane? (6/17/2020)
- Doesn’t Jesus’ “Cleansing of the Temple” Show He Wanted a Military Uprising? (6/16/2020)
- Did Jesus Favor Armed Rebellion Against Rome? (6/15/2020)
- Have You Written Something You Would Like To Advertise on the Blog? (6/14/2020)
- Did the Gospel Writers Invent Barabbas? Readers’ Mailbag (6/12/2020)
- Interested in a Webinar? Topic: Do We Have the Original New Testament? (6/10/2020)
- Yet Other Accounts Of the Death of Judas (6/9/2020)
- But How Did Judas Die? (6/8/2020)
- Two Ancient Jesuses and the Current Crises (6/7/2020)
- Are Bible Translators Consistent? Readers’ Mailbag (6/5/2020)
- Views of Suffering Among Those Who Suffer (6/3/2020)
- But WHY Did Judas Betray Jesus? (6/2/2020)
- What Did Judas Betray? (6/1/2020)
- If We Did Have the “Original” Gospels, Would That Make Them True? (5/31/2020)
- Would It Matter If It HAD BEEN a First-century Copy of Mark? A Surprising Answer in the Readers’ Mailbag (5/29/2020)
- The Remarkable Story of Masada: Guest Post by Jodi Magness (5/27/2020)
- Judas Iscariot? What’s an Iscariot?? (5/26/2020)
- Was Judas Iscariot “Made Up”? (5/25/2020)
- Academic Fraud at the Highest Levels (5/24/2020)
- Did Judas Really Betray Jesus? Readers’ Mailbag (5/22/2020)
- Last Chance for Webinar! (5/21/2020)
- My Interview with Erstwhile-Evangelist-Now-Secular-Humanist Bart Campolo (5/20/2020)
- Did Some *One* Forge the Writings of “John”? Guest Post by Hugo Mendez (5/19/2020)
- Problems with Thinking the “Letters of John” in the NT are Forgeries? Guest Post: Hugo Mendez (5/18/2020)
- A Bart Ehrman Webinar: How We Got the New Testament! (5/17/2020)
- Did Paul Know that Judas Betrayed Jesus? Readers’ Mailbag! (5/15/2020)
- Getting a PhD in New Testament Studies (5/13/2020)
- Are the Gospel and Epistles of John *Forgeries*?? Guest Post by Hugo Mendez (5/12/2020)
- Was There One Author Behind the Four Johannine Writings? A Community? Guest Post by Hugo Mendez (5/11/2020)
- A Powerful Film and Some Raw Emotions (5/10/2020)
- Readers Mailbag: Does Isaiah 53 Predict the Death and Resurrection of Jesus? (5/8/2020)
- Were the Gospels Generally Written for “Communities” of Christians: Guest Post by Hugo Mendez (5/6/2020)
- Live Event on Wednesday Evening, May 6! (5/5/2020)
- WAS there a Community behind the Gospel and Letters of John? Guest Post by Hugo Mendez (5/5/2020)
- Take A Final Exam on the New Testament! (5/4/2020)
- Life after Death in the Bible and Beyond: Webinar with Oxford Press (5/3/2020)
- The Johannine Letters in Sum (5/1/2020)
- What Are The Epistles of John? (4/29/2020)
- Reading the New Testament Letters in CONTEXT (4/28/2020)
- What I Do Argue in Misquoting Jesus (4/27/2020)
- Misquoting Misquoting Jesus (4/26/2020)
- Blog-Related Suggestions for Isolation (4/24/2020)
- The Not Old Better Show – Heaven and Hell Book Interview (4/22/2020)
- Do We NEED to Suffer? The Argument from Tectonic Plates (4/21/2020)
- Is There Any Point To Life? More on Ecclesiastes (4/20/2020)
- What Is The Meaning of Life? The Book of Ecclesiastes (4/19/2020)
- Interested in a Webinar on My Book? (4/17/2020)
- A Good Time for Wisdom! (4/15/2020)
- Q&A on Heaven and Hell (4/14/2020)
- More of the History Behind the Gospel of John (4/13/2020)
- Easter Reflection 2020 (4/12/2020)
- The History Behind John’s Gospel (4/10/2020)
- The Divergent Views of Christ in John (4/8/2020)
- UGH. Lost Comments from April 6 (4/8/2020)
- The Blog Podcast and Some New Protocols (4/7/2020)
- The Social History Behind the Fourth Gospel (4/6/2020)
- Blog Anniversary, 2020! (4/5/2020)
- CORONA CRISIS OFFER: FREE MEMBERSHIPS TO THE BART EHRMAN BLOG! (4/3/2020)
- So What Sources for Jesus’ Life *Were* Used in the Fourth Gospel? (4/1/2020)
- Is The End Today??? (3/31/2020)
- The Most Intriguing Evidence that John Used Sources (3/31/2020)
- Where Did the Gospel of John Get Its Stories? (3/30/2020)
- Fresh Air Interview for Heaven and Hell: Airing Tuesday! (3/29/2020)
- Is This the Same Jesus? John and the Synoptics (part 2) (3/27/2020)
- Comparing John and the Synoptics (3/26/2020)
- Christians Against Christians: Already In the New Testament (3/24/2020)
- Did Paul Really Have *That* Exalted a View of Jesus? (3/23/2020)
- How To Begin with Heaven and Hell: An Excerpt (3/22/2020)
- Hard Times and Using the Blog for Charity (3/20/2020)
- More Free Memberships to the Blog Available (3/20/2020)
- Heaven and Hell Pre-order Offer: Still Valid!! (3/19/2020)
- Paul the Misogynist? The Alternative Perspective (3/18/2020)
- Paul the Feminist? The Thecla Legends (3/17/2020)
- Paul and the Status of Women (3/16/2020)
- Thanks to those who volunteered! (3/16/2020)
- You Lost Me On Hello. A Plea for Expertise (3/15/2020)
- I Need a Volunteer! (3/14/2020)
- Jesus “Sweating Blood”: Which Text Would *Scribes* Have Preferred? (3/13/2020)
- Smithsonian (3/13/2020)
- Lecture Cancellations and Non-Cancellations (so far) (3/11/2020)
- Did Jesus Sweat Blood? “Intrinsic” Evidence for Textual Variants (3/10/2020)
- How Manuscripts Matter for Knowing What an Author Wrote (3/9/2020)
- Intimate Relationships: Nonbelievers and Believers (3/8/2020)
- What Did Ancient People Think (a) God Was? (3/5/2020)
- How Can You Tell If the Text Has Been CHANGED? (3/4/2020)
- Maybe the Passage wasn’t “Original”!! (3/3/2020)
- Paul’s Incredibly High Christology (3/2/2020)
- Authors and the Fiasco of Book Tours (3/1/2020)
- A Fuller Exposition of the Christ Poem in Philippians (2/28/2020)
- Brief Video Promotion of Heaven and Hell (2/25/2020)
- Did Paul Think Jesus Was a New Adam, Not a Divine Being? (2/24/2020)
- Was Christ an Angel, According to Paul? (2/23/2020)
- Fund-Raising Blog Dinner on March 13, Washington D.C. (2/23/2020)
- Buddhist Interview Questions on Suffering (2/21/2020)
- More Buddhist Questions on the Bible (2/20/2020)
- Great Deal on My New Book!! (2/19/2020)
- Interview with Buddhists on the New Testament (2/18/2020)
- How Ancient is the Idea of Christ’s “Incarnation”? (2/17/2020)
- How Do I Get To Know What Is In the Bible? (2/14/2020)
- Heaven and Hell: Press Release!! (2/12/2020)
- Jesus Kissing Mary Magdalene: A Bizarre Scene in the Gospel of Philip (2/11/2020)
- What About Accurately Preserved *Oral* Traditions? (2/10/2020)
- Sacramento Lecture: Cancelled (2/9/2020)
- Raffle Winners! (2/9/2020)
- Why Do Smart People Make Stupid Arguments? (2/9/2020)
- Jesus as Single: An Actual Argument! (2/7/2020)
- Demons and Christians in Antiquity! Guest Post By Travis Proctor (2/5/2020)
- Was Jesus Intimate with Mary Magdalene? (2/4/2020)
- So… WAS Jesus Married? (2/3/2020)
- A “Newly Discovered” “Gospel”: Was Jesus Married with Children? (2/2/2020)
- A Raffle!! Would You Like a Pre-publication Copy of My Book on Heaven and Hell? (1/31/2020)
- Want A Korean Version of My Last Book? (1/30/2020)
- Rapid Fire Questions and Answers on Biblical Manuscripts (1/29/2020)
- Other Interesting Features of the Graphic Introduction to the New Testament (1/28/2020)
- How I Will Write My “Graphic Textbook of the New Testament” (1/27/2020)
- A Graphic Novel (Textbook) on the New Testament! (1/26/2020)
- Volunteers Needed! Readers for Audio Versions of the Posts. You Interested? (1/24/2020)
- Want To Know About the Apostolic Fathers? (1/22/2020)
- Jesus, the Supernatural, and the Historian: Guest Post 2 by James Tabor (1/21/2020)
- Guest Post by James Tabor: The Historian and the Supernatural (1/20/2020)
- So: Was Luke Luke? (1/19/2020)
- Does the Book of Acts Accurately Record Paul’s Teachings? (1/17/2020)
- Did *Any* Companion of Paul Write Luke and Acts? (1/16/2020)
- How Were People Crucified? (1/15/2020)
- Bidding to See My New Book (1/13/2020)
- Two Brief Comments on intriguing topics: the unknowability of God and scholarly subterfuge! (1/13/2020)
- Does the Author of Acts Identify Himself? (1/13/2020)
- A Revelatory Moment about “God” (1/12/2020)
- Did Paul Write Colossians? According to Most Scholars No – Paul did Not Write Colossians (1/11/2020)
- Would You Like to Read My New Book NOW Instead of When It Gets Published??? (1/9/2020)
- Problems with Thinking That Luke Wrote Luke (and Acts) (1/8/2020)
- Once More on the Credibility of Miracles: Guest post by Darren Slade (1/6/2020)
- Did “Luke” Really Write Luke? And the book of Acts? (1/5/2020)
- Misunderstandings??? (1/4/2020)
- Was Christianity a Missionary Religion with No Missionaries? (1/4/2020)
- Why Do Christians Try to Convert People? (1/2/2020)
- Blog Year in Review, 2019! (12/31/2019)
- The Case Against Miracles: Guest Post by John Loftus (12/30/2019)
- End of the Year Final Exam! (12/29/2019)
- The Life and Message of Paul (12/28/2019)
- Why Does Matthew Have the Story of the “Wise Men”? (12/26/2019)
- Christmas 2019 (12/25/2019)
- More on the Case Against Miracles: Michael Shermer Guest Post (12/23/2019)
- The Case Against Miracles (12/22/2019)
- Guided Tours of Heaven and Hell in a Christian Mode (12/21/2019)
- Guided Tours of Heaven and Hell: My Scholarly Book (12/19/2019)
- UpcomingTours, Lectures, and Book Readings (12/18/2019)
- Heaven and Hell in a Nutshell: Getting into the Kernel (12/16/2019)
- Heaven and Hell in a Nutshell (12/15/2019)
- Why Would an Agnostic-Atheist Be A Bible Scholar?? (12/13/2019)
- Update on My Next Book: The Joys of Academic Writing (12/12/2019)
- Why Are Their Differences in the Gospels? Does it Affect Their Inspiration? Guest Post by Mike Licona (12/10/2019)