Complete Post Archive in List Format
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- 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)
- But Why Doesn’t Paul Say More About the Historical Jesus? (12/9/2021)
- An Evangelical Apologist Who *Supports* My Book Misquoting Jesus! (12/8/2021)
- My New Great Courses Offering, Just Out! (12/7/2021)
- What We KNOW about Jesus. Platinum guest post by Dan Kohanski (12/6/2021)
- Blog Platinum Webinar! For You Platinums Only! (12/6/2021)
- Did Paul Know What Jesus Taught? More Reflections (12/5/2021)
- Are You Willing To Donate Blog Memberships to Those Who Can’t Afford It? (12/4/2021)
- An Article about Religious Studies by One of My Undergraduate Students (12/2/2021)
- What Paul Says about Jesus’ Teachings (12/1/2021)
- What Paul Knows about Jesus’ Death, and What Led Up to It (11/30/2021)
- My Final Exam This Semester! The Birth of Christianity. (11/28/2021)
- Did Paul Know Much about the Historical Jesus? (11/27/2021)
- A Thanksgiving Reflection, 2021 (11/25/2021)
- Why Do Fundamentalists Support the State of Israel? (11/24/2021)
- A Rare Opportunity! Want to Read My Book on Revelation (before it’s published)? (11/23/2021)
- Why Cynics Thought Being Poor Was Ironically Better (11/23/2021)
- A Humorous Take on Wealth From a Great Satire of Antiquity (11/21/2021)
- Must Jesus Divide Families? Part 2 of 2. Platinum Guest post by Douglas Wadeson (11/20/2021)
- Should You Give Up All Your Possessions to Be Happy? The Ancient Cynic View (11/20/2021)
- Announcement: Did the Christmas Story Really Happen? Upcoming All-Day Event! (VIDEO) (11/18/2021)
- Jesus the First-Century Tea Partier (11/17/2021)
- Really Riled By O’Reilly (11/16/2021)
- Killing Jesus Is Killing Me…… (11/13/2021)
- Bill O’Reilly, Expert on the Historical Jesus! (11/11/2021)
- God’s Mercy and Justice: The Opening of a Chapter in Journeys to Heaven and Hell (11/10/2021)
- Gold Q&A for November! (11/9/2021)
- Time Magazine Cover Story on Lost Christianities. Kind Of…. (11/9/2021)
- Webinar of Interest? Dune and Islam! How To Understand the Movie. (11/7/2021)
- The Massive Diversity of Early Christianity. My Book: Lost Christianities (11/6/2021)
- How I’ve Changed My Approach To Writing (11/4/2021)
- Those Darn Demons! Guest Post by Douglas Wadeson (11/3/2021)
- Why I Prefer the NRSV (11/2/2021)
- Do I Hold a Grudge against Bruce Metzger? (10/31/2021)
- What Do YOU Think? Does Biblical Scholarship Change, Damage, or Destroy the Claims of Faith? (10/30/2021)
- Announcement: Did Jesus Call Himself God? LIVE Webinar on Nov. 7th, 2021 (VIDEO) (10/28/2021)
- Change the Context, Change the Meaning: The Apocalypse! (10/28/2021)
- A Solution to a Major Anomaly in the Study of Paul: Guest Post by Richard Fellows (10/27/2021)
- How Yahweh of the Israelites Became God of All: Guest Post by Dan Kohanski (10/26/2021)
- Why Would Later Scribes Be Interested In Having Jesus “Sweat Blood”? (10/24/2021)
- How I Opened My Book on Jesus (10/23/2021)
- A New Three-Week Book Club! (10/21/2021)
- Must Jesus Divide Families? Platinum Guest Post by Douglas Wadeson (10/21/2021)
- Starting My New Trade Book on Revelation (10/21/2021)
- Was Jesus in Agony Before His Arrest? The Unexpected Answer in Luke. (10/20/2021)
- Knowing What Jesus Said and Did (10/19/2021)
- Bruce Metzger and My Loss of Faith (10/17/2021)
- Second October Gold Q & A (10/16/2021)
- An Unexpected Argument Against Jesus’ “Sweating Blood” (10/16/2021)
- Jesus in the Face of Death? (10/14/2021)
- Vote for a Platinum Guest Post to Go to the World at Large! (10/13/2021)
- Did Jesus Sweat Blood? Another Problem with the NRSV (10/13/2021)
- Can We Reconstruct the New Testament from the Writings of the Early Church Fathers? (10/12/2021)
- Who Knew? Our Oldest Commentary on the Book of Revelation (10/12/2021)
- Another Problem with the NRSV: Knowing What To Translate (10/10/2021)
- John Shelby Spong: In Memoriam (10/9/2021)
- My Relationship with Bruce Metzger: More on the Personal Side (10/7/2021)
- What Do Translators Translate? It’s Not So Obvious… (10/6/2021)
- What Do YOU Think? The Experience of Death. (10/5/2021)
- A More Serious (Specific) Problem with the NRSV Translation (10/3/2021)
- What Do I Think of the New Revised Standard Version? (10/2/2021)
- Two Gold Q&A’s for October! (9/30/2021)
- Behind the Scenes of the New Revised Standard Version (9/30/2021)
- More of My Work for the NRSV Bible Translation Committee (9/29/2021)
- Why these Caricatures of the Old Testament God? Guest post by Amy-Jill Levine (9/28/2021)
- Did Paul Want to Please the Jerusalem Apostles? Guest post by Richard Fellows (9/26/2021)
- Why and When Did We Get This Canon of the New Testament? (9/25/2021)
- Christian Stereotypes of “the God of the Old Testament.” Marcion is Alive and Well and Well and What To Do About It. Guest Post by Marc Zvi Brettler (9/23/2021)
- How Becoming an Agnostic Affected My Personal Life (9/22/2021)
- Jewish Indifference to Jesus and the Problems It Caused: Platinum Guest Post by Dan Kohanski (9/21/2021)
- Was Peter Crucified Upside Down? (9/21/2021)
- An Impromptu FREEBIE. A Zoom Lecture Tomorrow Morning! (9/20/2021)
- Then Who WAS the First Bishop of Rome (if not Peter)? (9/19/2021)
- Was Peter the First Pope? (9/18/2021)
- Working as a Secretary for the New Revised Standard Version (9/16/2021)
- Jesus’ View of Salvation: Who Can Have Eternal Life? (9/15/2021)
- Jesus and the Coming Destruction: Who, Why, and How? (9/14/2021)
- On the Flipside: The Glorious Salvation of Saints in the Teachings of Jesus (9/12/2021)
- The Horrible Fate of Sinners: Jesus’ Teaching on Gehenna (9/11/2021)
- Reminder: My Public Lecture on the Book of Revelation — This Saturday! (9/10/2021)
- Jesus’s Apocalyptic View of Destruction (9/9/2021)
- Bruce Metzger and My Strange Dissertation Defense (9/8/2021)
- Weird (But Common) Ways To Read the Bible (9/7/2021)
- MORE Assignments on the Birth of Christianity (9/5/2021)
- Student Papers for “The Birth of Christianity” (9/4/2021)
- Was Paul Really at Odds with Peter and James? Guest Post by Richard Fellows (9/2/2021)
- Pop Quiz on Early Christianity (9/1/2021)
- My Syllabus for “The Birth of Christianity” (8/31/2021)
- Platinum apologies: the LINK for the webinar (8/30/2021)
- Recording of our Platinum Webinar: History of Biblical Scholarship (8/29/2021)
- Does God Really Care How He Is Worshiped? The Book of Hosea. (8/29/2021)
- Bruce Metzger and Me: Reminiscences on my Dissertation (8/28/2021)
- On Giving. Platinum Guest Post by Judith Coyle (8/26/2021)
- Reminder: Fund Raiser for Afghanistan on Sunday (8/26/2021)
- Sin and Divine Punishment As a Dominant Theme of Scripture (8/26/2021)
- Israel’s Conquest of the Promised Land: Did Any of That Happen? (8/25/2021)
- Destroy More Others! The Israelites’ Conquest of the City Ai (8/24/2021)
- Fund Raiser for Afghanistan: This Sunday! (8/23/2021)
- God’s Destruction of the “Other”: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho (8/22/2021)
- What Do YOU Think? A Matter of Life and Death (8/21/2021)
- When / If you have a blog problem! (8/20/2021)
- Platinum Members! Vote for your Favorite Platinum Post to Go To the Blog! (8/19/2021)
- Jesus as a Healer: “First: Do No Harm” Platinum Guest Post by Douglas Wadeson (8/18/2021)
- Why Did Paul Think *Faith* Would Bring Salvation? (8/18/2021)
- It’s Coming Soon (8/17/2021)
- The Essence of Religious Literacy: A Christian Perspective. Guest Post by Fredrick Ackun (8/17/2021)
- Is This a God You Want to Worship? Some Horrors of Scripture. (8/15/2021)
- A Blog Event! Want to Join a three-week Blog Book Club?? (8/14/2021)
- Why God Had to Destroy the Outsiders… (8/12/2021)
- Platinum Webinar for August! (8/11/2021)
- God is Holy and You Better Worship Him! (8/11/2021)
- Jesus the Healer, Repossessed? Platinum guest post by Douglas Wadeson MD (8/10/2021)
- Finally: Cephas and Peter. What Do I Really Think? (8/10/2021)
- Gold Q&A for August! (8/8/2021)
- The God of Wrath According to the Prophet Amos (8/8/2021)
- The God of Wrath in Both Old and New Testament (8/7/2021)
- For Blog Members in the U.K.! Special Zoom Event. (8/6/2021)
- My New View of the Book of Revelation (8/5/2021)
- The Naivety of the Nativity: Platinum Guest Post by Joel Scheller (8/4/2021)
- Cephas and Peter: Final Arguments, Summary, and Implications (8/4/2021)
- More Hints that Cephas Was Not Peter (8/3/2021)
- More On Bruce Metzger and Me: How I Got Interested in my Dissertation Topic (8/1/2021)
- Some Evidence that Cephas and Peter WERE Two Different People (7/31/2021)
- Congratulations Fredrick Ackun! (7/30/2021)
- Jesus Healing the Paralyzed. How Do We Explain the Stories? Platinum Guest Post by Douglas Wadeson, MD (7/29/2021)
- Were Cephas and Peter Two Different People? A Blast from the Past (7/29/2021)
- Bruce Metzger and the “Favor” He Did Me On My PhD Exams (7/28/2021)
- Understanding the Apocalypse as an “Apocalypse” (7/27/2021)
- Returning to the Whore of Babylon (7/25/2021)
- 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)