Complete Post Archive in List Format
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- 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)
- Do You Want (and Need) a Free Membership to the Blog? Gift Memberships 2019 (12/9/2019)
- Does the New Testament Condemn “Homosexuals”? (12/8/2019)
- One of the Blog’s Main Charities: Urban Ministries of Durham (12/6/2019)
- An Older Manuscript Controversy about the Dead Sea Scrolls (12/4/2019)
- Final Tribute To Larry Hurtado (12/3/2019)
- Is the Bible Inerrant? Guest Post by Mike Licona (12/2/2019)
- Why Don’t You Just Believe? (12/1/2019)
- Who Was Jesus? (11/29/2019)
- Thanksgiving 2019 (11/27/2019)
- Setting Dates for the Gospels (11/26/2019)
- The Annual Meeting of Biblical Scholars, and ALL Those Books!! (11/25/2019)
- Maybe Jesus DOES Talk about “Homosexuality”? (11/22/2019)
- Do Textual Variants Actually *Matter* For Much?? (11/21/2019)
- Introduction to the Manuscripts of the New Testament (11/19/2019)
- Two More Openings for Blog Dinner in Durham, December 3. Interested? (11/18/2019)
- How Did We Get The 27 Books of the New Testament? (11/18/2019)
- Is the Bible Inspired by God? Guest Post by Evangelical Apologist Mike Licona (11/17/2019)
- Jesus and “Homosexuality” (11/15/2019)
- The Gospel of Thomas and the Other Gospels (11/13/2019)
- The Coming Armageddon: I Need Some Suggestions! (11/12/2019)
- Are Same-Sex Relations Condemned in the Old Testament? (11/11/2019)
- A Synopsis of Each New Testament Book (11/10/2019)
- Blog Fund-Raising Dinner, December 3 (11/8/2019)
- One C. S. Lewis Writing I Relate To (11/7/2019)
- What Is the New Testament? A Broad Overview (11/5/2019)
- Losing *Your* Faith? (11/4/2019)
- Sex and Gender in the Ancient World (11/4/2019)
- Why I’m To Be Pitied for Being the Wrong *Kind* of Fundamentalist! (11/3/2019)
- Women Are To Be Silent and Submissive! (10/30/2019)
- Why Women Are To Be Subservient to Men (10/29/2019)
- What Does the Name Judas “Iscariot” Mean? (10/28/2019)
- Video Debate with Peter Williams: Can We Trust the Gospels (10/27/2019)
- The Quest for the Historical … Judas Iscariot (10/25/2019)
- Can My Undergraduate Students Continue Believing the Bible is Inerrant? (10/24/2019)
- Who Would Invent the Story of Women at the Tomb?? (10/22/2019)
- A New Way of Explaining Contradictions in an “Inerrant” Bible (10/21/2019)
- Modern Evangelical Christian Apologetics (10/20/2019)
- But the Women Who Did *NOT* Doubt the Resurrection (10/16/2019)
- Startling and Disturbing Development Involving Manuscripts at the Museum of the Bible (10/15/2019)
- Why Would Jesus’ Disciples Doubt the Resurrection? (10/14/2019)
- More Free Memberships Available, 2019 (10/13/2019)
- Crazy Things Textual Scholars Say (10/13/2019)
- My Trip To Rome: Interested in Joining? (10/12/2019)
- Did God Want Us To Have His Word? (10/11/2019)
- What I think of the Bible as Both a Critical Scholar and A Christian: Guest Post by Judy Siker (10/9/2019)
- Misconstruing My Words. Can We Know What the Authors of the New Testament Originally Said? (10/8/2019)
- Modern Defenders of the Faith: Why Not Just Tell the Truth? (10/7/2019)
- Who Wrote the Pentateuch? The JEDP Hypothesis (10/6/2019)
- Blog Dinner in Chicago (Oct. 18): Full! (10/4/2019)
- How Did We Get *These* 27 Books in the New Testament? (10/4/2019)
- Blog Dinner, Chicago IL, Friday October 18 (10/2/2019)
- How Can You Still Believe? Guest Post by Judy Siker (10/2/2019)
- If the Old Testament is Not Accurate — Where Did Israel Come From? (10/1/2019)
- Did The Israelites Really Conquer Canaan? (9/30/2019)
- Is It Ever Right to Lie? Or Was It? Even in Early Christianity? The Relevance for Forgery. (9/29/2019)
- Why It Is Hard To Publish a Translation of an Ancient Text (9/29/2019)
- My Speaking Schedule for this Academic Year (so far) (9/27/2019)
- Hey! Wanna Go With Me To Rome ? (9/25/2019)
- A Recent Argument that Ancient Pseudepigraphy Was NOT Deceptive (or Meant to Be) (9/24/2019)
- What Motivated Some Ancient Authors to Lie About Themselves? (9/23/2019)
- My Approaching Birthday (9/22/2019)
- How Many Books in the New Testament Were Forged? (9/20/2019)
- Were Ancient Readers Interested in Detecting Forgeries? (9/18/2019)
- My Lecture in Quebec: Did Ancient Authors Try To Deceive Their Readers? (9/17/2019)
- A New and Important Book on the Bible (9/16/2019)
- My Conference on Pseudepigraphy (9/15/2019)
- Did the Exodus Happen? (9/13/2019)
- Now: Literary Inconsistencies in the Old Testament (9/11/2019)
- What About the Original *Old* Testament? (9/10/2019)
- Some Pitfalls of Writing for a General Audience (9/9/2019)
- Why Don’t More Scholars Write Trade Books? (9/8/2019)
- How Did We Get Chapters and Verses? (9/6/2019)
- A Readable Edition of the “Lost” (i.e. non-canonical) Gospels (9/4/2019)
- The Scholarly Edition of the Apocryphal Gospels (9/3/2019)
- Why It’s Hard to Publish a Translation: Blast from the Past (9/2/2019)
- Can We Reconstruct the Entire New Testament from Quotations of the Church Fathers? (9/1/2019)
- Did Superior Health Care Lead to the Dominance of Christianity? (8/28/2019)
- On Producing a New Translation of Ancient Texts (8/27/2019)
- My Two Books on Forgery (8/26/2019)
- Writing Scholarly and Popular Books on the Same Topic (8/25/2019)
- Does Isaiah 53 Predict Jesus’ Suffering and Death or Has Isaiah 53 Been Debunked? (8/23/2019)
- An Opening for the Blog Dinner NYC August 27 (8/22/2019)
- Does Your Soul Go To Heaven? (8/21/2019)
- An Alternative View of Suffering and the Idea of Resurrection (8/20/2019)
- Resurrection from the Dead: Were Jews Influenced by Zoroastrianism? (8/19/2019)
- Learning New Things (8/18/2019)
- Blog Dinner for NYC Full! (8/16/2019)
- Join Me In Egypt? Tour in October 2020! (8/16/2019)
- Do You Need a Free Membership? (8/16/2019)
- How Views of the Afterlife Changed (8/14/2019)
- Who Has The Answer For a Happy Afterlife? (8/13/2019)
- Last Minute (well, sort of): Another Blog Dinner Option. NYC, August 27 (8/12/2019)
- An Ancient Author Trying to Justify His Deceit (8/12/2019)
- A Christian Forger Caught in the Act (8/11/2019)
- Blog Dinner in D.C.: Full! (8/9/2019)
- Who Is The Enemy? (8/9/2019)
- Some Very Strange Journeys to Heaven and Hell (8/7/2019)
- Why Did the Author of James Claim to be James in Particular? (8/6/2019)
- Blog Dinner, Washington DC. September 6, 2019 (8/5/2019)
- Is the Author of James Rejecting Paul Himself? (8/5/2019)
- Scribes Who Changed Their Texts on Purpose (8/4/2019)
- The Close Connections of James and Paul (8/2/2019)
- Is James Responding to Paul? (7/31/2019)
- But WHY Doesn’t Torture Hurt?? Guest Post by Stephanie Cobb (7/30/2019)
- My Current Research Projects, 7/2019 (7/29/2019)
- Does James (the Book) Have the Same Concerns as James (the Man)? Part 2 (7/28/2019)
- Does the Book of James Have the Same Concerns as the Historical James? (7/26/2019)
- The Brother of Jesus and the Book of James (7/24/2019)
- How Could Torture Not Hurt?? Guest Post by Stephanie Cobb (7/23/2019)
- Could Most People Write in Antiquity? (7/22/2019)
- Did James Write James? (7/21/2019)
- Is History a Four-Letter Word? (7/19/2019)
- Changing Your Mind. Or Not. (7/17/2019)
- Did It Hurt to Be Martyred? The Surprising Answer. Guest Post by Stephanie Cobb. (7/16/2019)
- Was James the Actual Brother of Jesus? (7/15/2019)
- Is the Book of James Attacking the Teachings of Paul? (7/14/2019)
- One of My Favorite Letters in the New Testament: The Book of James (7/12/2019)
- Sad News From Larry Hurtado (7/10/2019)
- The Legality, Morality, and Scandal of Acquiring Ancient Manuscripts: Guest Post by Jennifer Knust (7/9/2019)
- Christian Manuscripts and Nazi Loot: Guest Post by Jennifer Knust (7/8/2019)
- Tracking Down Stolen Manuscripts: Guest Post by Jennifer Knust (7/7/2019)
- Heightened Opposition to Jews in Early Christianity (7/5/2019)
- When Christians Went on the Attack Against Jews (7/3/2019)
- Is the Qur’an More Reliable than the New Testament? (7/2/2019)
- Why Was the World Created in 4004 BC? (7/1/2019)
- Would You Be Willing To Donate a Membership? (6/30/2019)
- Do You Need a Free Membership? (6/30/2019)
- Is There a Way to Know if a Manuscript is the “Original”? (6/28/2019)
- Flat-out Lies or Willful Ignorance. How Do They Get Away With It? (6/26/2019)
- The Hobby Lobby, Biblical Manuscripts, and Academic Scandal (6/25/2019)
- Finally! Now We Know. The “First-Century Copy” of Mark (6/24/2019)
- Why Christians Needed an Old Testament: Pagan Attacks on the Faith (6/23/2019)
- The Jewish Bible in the Gentile Churches (6/21/2019)
- Feedback on the Blog? (6/19/2019)
- Why Paul Did Not Write 2 Thessalonians: A Final Post (6/18/2019)
- Does Paul Think the End is Coming Soon? Does 2 Thessalonians? (6/17/2019)
- 2 Thessalonians as a Forgery? Does the Author “Write” Like Paul? (6/16/2019)
- Is 2 Thessalonians a Forgery Based on 1 Thessalonians? (6/14/2019)
- How “Jews” Became “Children of the Devil” in the New Testament (6/12/2019)
- Should the Old Testament Even Be in the Bible? (6/11/2019)
- When Were Matthew and Mark First Seen as Scripture: Guest Post on Papias by Stephen Carlson (6/10/2019)
- 2 Thessalonians: When Scholars Began To Doubt It Was Authentic (6/9/2019)
- Did Paul Really Write 2 Thessalonians? (6/7/2019)
- Is There a “Best” Bible Translation Out There? A Blast from the Past (6/5/2019)
- How Do We know When Manuscripts Were Written? Guest Post by Brent Nongbri (6/4/2019)
- Is the Old Testament a Christian Book? (6/3/2019)
- Why Do Christians Have an Old Testament? Another Trade Book. (6/2/2019)
- The Blog Podcast: A Milestone! (5/31/2019)
- God’s Library Part 1: Finding Ancient Christian Manuscripts in Egypt. Guest Post by Brent Nongbri (5/28/2019)
- Interview for “Letters & Politics” on The Triumph of Christianity (5/28/2019)
- An Official Copy of Jesus’ Death Sentence: Another Forgery? (5/27/2019)
- When You Feel Like You’re Talking to a Wall (5/26/2019)
- Was Jesus Perfect? Then How Was He Human?? Guest Post: Jeffrey Siker (5/24/2019)
- Were Miracle Stories Originally in the Gospels? (5/22/2019)
- Being Willing to Accept the Truth (5/21/2019)
- Do My Biases Mean I *Have* to Find Contradictions? (5/20/2019)
- How Jesus Became Perfectly Sinless: Guest Post by Jeff Siker (5/19/2019)
- An Eyewitness to the Crucifixion? Another Modern Forgery (5/17/2019)
- Judging the Debate! (5/15/2019)
- When Did Jesus Become Sinless? (5/14/2019)
- Did Jesus Go to India? A Modern Gospel Forgery. (5/13/2019)
- Contradictions in the Gospels – Rev Matthew Firth’s Final Response (5/12/2019)
- What Kind of Book Was Papias Writing? Guest Post by Stephen Carlson (5/10/2019)
- Wine Flowing in the Kingdom: Guest Post on Papias by Stephen Carlson (5/8/2019)
- Early Christian Liars (5/7/2019)
- Could Christian Forgers Justifying Lying? (5/6/2019)
- Why Did Ancient Christian Forgers Commit Forgery? (5/5/2019)
- Contradictions and Contradictions: Final Response to Matt Firth (5/3/2019)
- Constantine and the Christian Faith: My Fourth Smithsonian Lecture (5/2/2019)
- Death and the Meaning of Life (4/30/2019)
- Similarities and Differences: Which Matter the Most? (4/29/2019)
- Contradictions in the Gospels – Rev Matthew Firth’s Second Response (4/28/2019)
- Paul in Hell. The Apocryphal Apocalypse of Paul. (4/26/2019)
- Papias and the Writers of the New Testament: Guest Post by Stephen Carlson (4/25/2019)
- Why Did Christianity Take Over the World? Smithsonian Lecture 3. (4/23/2019)
- Are These Really Contradictions? My Response to Matt Firth (4/22/2019)
- The Radical Implications of the Resurrection (4/21/2019)
- Why Are the Gospels Anonymous? (4/19/2019)
- Contradictions in the Gospels – Rev Matthew Firth’s Response (4/16/2019)
- Contradictions in the Gospels (4/16/2019)
- What Is a Contradiction? (4/15/2019)
- Who Were The “Pagans” Christians Were Converting? (4/14/2019)
- A Papias Mystery: What Was the Book He Wrote? Guest Post by Stephen Carlson (4/12/2019)
- Fund Raising Event on the Blog: Contradictions in the Gospels?? (4/10/2019)
- Enoch’s Vision of the Realms of the Dead (4/9/2019)
- Christianity’s Most Important Convert: Lecture at the Smithsonian (4/8/2019)
- Jesus “Only” Adopted to be the Son of God? (4/7/2019)
- Papias. How Do We Know His Context? Guest post by Stephen Carlson (4/5/2019)
- The Writings of Papias: Guest Post by Stephen Carlson (4/4/2019)
- A Blog Anniversary! Seven Years! (4/3/2019)
- Revelation as a Blueprint for our Future (4/1/2019)
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- My Very First Post: Do Textual Variants Matter?? (3/31/2019)
- The Odd Modern Way of Reading the Book of Revelation (3/29/2019)
- A Roman Vision of Heaven and Hell (3/27/2019)
- Did Ancient Greeks Invent Heaven and Hell? (3/26/2019)
- Armageddon and American Politics (3/25/2019)
- Did Jesus Pray “Father Forgive Them” from the Cross? (3/24/2019)
- Secular Versions of the Coming Apocalypse (3/22/2019)
- Fundamentalist Visions of the End of the World (3/20/2019)
- Expecting the Apocalypse: My Idea for the Book (3/19/2019)
- An Early Otherworldly Journey (3/18/2019)
- Very Funny… (3/16/2019)
- My Doubts about the Son of God: A Blast from the Past (3/16/2019)
- The Protestant Obsession with Origins (3/13/2019)
- Who Cares How It All Started? (3/12/2019)
- The Passion for Origins (3/11/2019)
- Do Any Ancient Jewish Sources Mention Jesus? Weekly Mailbag (3/10/2019)
- The Original Obsession with Trips to the Afterlife (3/8/2019)
- My Next Scholarly Book: Visits to Heaven and Hell (3/6/2019)
- Heaven and Hell, Finally (3/5/2019)
- Homosexuality and the New Testament. Guest Post by Jeff Siker. (3/4/2019)
- Homosexuality in the Bible (and the Christian Church) (3/3/2019)
- University Professors and their Research (3/1/2019)
- A Return to the Historical Jesus (2/27/2019)
- The Gospel Writers as Editors Rather than Authors (2/26/2019)
- A New Way of Looking at the Gospels (2/25/2019)
- Non-Christian Sources for Jesus: An Interview with History.com (2/24/2019)
- If the Quest for the Historical Jesus Failed… What Then? (2/22/2019)
- The Death Knell for the Study of the Historical Jesus (2/20/2019)
- Wrede’s Revolutionary Claim about the “Messianic Secret” (2/19/2019)
- Is It Plausible that Jesus Kept the Whole Thing a Secret?? (2/18/2019)
- Why Textual Criticism Seemed to Be on Death’s Door (2/17/2019)
- Who CARES if Mark was the First Gospel Written? (2/15/2019)
- Editorial Fatigue in Luke: More from Blog Guest Mark Goodacre (2/13/2019)
- A New Argument that Mark Was the First Gospel (Editorial Fatigue): Guest Post by Mark Goodacre! (2/12/2019)
- Pursuing My Passion for Textual Criticism (2/11/2019)
- On Being Just a Textual Critic (2/10/2019)
- Mark: The First Gospel in 19th Century Research (2/8/2019)
- The Beginning of the Quest of the Historical Jesus (2/7/2019)
- Mark’s Central Focus on Jesus’ Death (2/5/2019)
- How No One Understands Jesus in Mark’s Gospel (2/4/2019)
- How Do We Explain the Messianic Secret? (2/3/2019)
- Guest Post! Joel Marcus on His New Book on the John the Baptist (2/1/2019)
- The Aberrant View of the Afterlife in the Apocalypse of Peter (1/30/2019)
- Finally. Why Did the Apocalypse of Peter Not Make It Into the Canon? (1/29/2019)
- Other Manuscripts of the Apocalypse of Peter, And Why It Matters (1/28/2019)
- Don’t Trust What You Read! (1/28/2019)
- How Do We Know What Was Originally in the Apocalypse of Peter? (1/25/2019)
- How Does A Book Actually Get Published? (1/23/2019)
- If Jesus Wasn’t God, Was He Necessarily Either a Calloused Liar or a Raving Lunatic? (1/22/2019)
- Was Jesus A Great Moral Teacher? A Blast From the Past (1/21/2019)
- Readers’ Mailbag 1/20/2019: The Only Story of Jesus as a Boy in the New Testament (1/20/2019)
- The Dangers of Fundamentalism (1/18/2019)
- Your Thoughts on the Blog? (1/17/2019)
- Does Eternal Punishment Even Make Sense? (1/15/2019)
- Eternal Torment Even for Christians? (1/14/2019)
- What *Greek* Version of the New Testament Do I Use? (1/13/2019)
- The Happy News! No One Stays In Hell! (1/11/2019)
- Did We Exist Before We Were Born? (1/8/2019)
- Does Everyone Get Saved in the End? (1/7/2019)
- Fundamentalist Arguments Ad Absurdum about the “Original” Text of the NT (1/6/2019)
- My Pod Cast Interview with Sam Harris (1/4/2019)
- Hey, They’re Free! Memberships Still Available for Those Who Can’t Afford Them (1/3/2019)
- My Research Goals for 2019 (1/1/2019)
- Blog Year in Review, 2018 (12/31/2018)
- Were There *Other* Virgin Births in Antiquity? (12/30/2018)
- Was Jesus Born of a Virgin in the Gospel of John? (12/28/2018)
- Does Mark’s Gospel Actually *Deny* the Virgin Birth? (12/27/2018)
- Christmas Reflection 2018 (12/25/2018)
- The Gospel of Luke without a Birth Story (12/24/2018)
- Did Luke Originally Tell the Birth Story? (12/23/2018)
- Last Minute Christmas Presents!! (12/22/2018)
- The Virgin Birth in Matthew and Luke (12/21/2018)
- Was the Apocalypse of Peter Originally Part of the New Testament? (12/19/2018)
- How Would an Early Christian “Know” Which Books Peter Wrote? (12/18/2018)
- The Books of Peter (12/17/2018)
- Jesus’ Birth in Matthew and Luke: A Study in Contrasts (12/16/2018)
- Jesus’ Birth as “The Fulfillment of the Prophecies” (12/14/2018)
- The Birth of Jesus in Matthew (12/12/2018)
- Free Memberships for Those Who Need Them! (12/11/2018)
- The Birth of Jesus in Luke (12/10/2018)
- What Can We Know about Jesus’ Birth? (12/9/2018)
- Another Chance: Donating Free Memberships (12/8/2018)
- Did Jesus Write Anything in the New Testament? (12/7/2018)
- An Intriguingly Legendary Account of Jesus’ Death (12/5/2018)
- Did Jesus Write a Letter to Joseph of Arimathea (12/4/2018)
- Do Any Forgeries Claim to be Written by Jesus? (12/3/2018)
- Gift Memberships 2018! (12/2/2018)
- Could Peter Have “Written” 1 and 2 Peter Some Other Way? (11/30/2018)
- Were First-Century Jewish Boys Taught to Read and Write? (11/28/2018)
- Seriously. How Many People in Antiquity Could Write? (11/27/2018)
- Who Wrote 1 Peter? (11/26/2018)
- The Situation Behind the (“Forged”) Book of 1 Peter (11/25/2018)
- The So-Called First Letter of Peter (11/23/2018)
- Thanksgiving Musings 2018 (11/22/2018)
- Deciding on Which Books Should Be in the New Testament (11/21/2018)
- Question: How Do I Read Books? (11/19/2018)
- Early Debates about the Gospel of Peter (11/18/2018)
- Now, The Gospel of Peter (11/16/2018)
- Interested in Taking a Trip With Me to Greece and Turkey? (11/14/2018)
- Introducing the Book of 2 Peter (11/13/2018)
- Introducing the Apocalypse of Peter (11/12/2018)
- A Very Perplexing Question (11/11/2018)
- Thanksgiving and the Blog (11/9/2018)
- Old and Ongoing Criticisms! (11/7/2018)
- The De-apocalypticized Jesus of the Gospel of John (11/6/2018)
- How Christianity Grew and Grew (11/5/2018)
- Today You Will Be With Me in Paradise? (11/4/2018)
- Miraculous Conversions in the Book of Acts (11/2/2018)
- Jews and Gentiles in Paul’s Churches (11/2/2018)
- Jesus and Hell (10/31/2018)
- The Value of Eyewitness Testimony (10/31/2018)
- Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library and Some Crucial Missing Parts! (10/30/2018)
- The Difference Between Eschatology and Apocalypticism (10/29/2018)
- My Own Translation of the New Testament? (10/28/2018)
- Jesus’ Apocalyptic Message in Matthew (10/26/2018)
- Did Jesus Call Himself God? (10/26/2018)
- How Reliable are Oral Traditions? (10/24/2018)
- Talking Dogs and Resurrected Slaves (10/24/2018)
- The New Edition of My New Testament Textbook (10/23/2018)
- Yet Other Apocryphal Books (10/22/2018)
- Blog Dinner! Denver, November 15 (10/21/2018)
- The Digital Bible (by Jeff Siker) (10/21/2018)
- More Apocrypha: A Letter of Jeremiah, (Fascinating) Additions to Daniel, and 1 Maccabees (10/19/2018)
- More Books of the Apocrypha: Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, and Baruch (10/17/2018)
- Some of the Apocrypha: Tobit, Judith, and Additions to Esther (10/16/2018)
- What Is the Apocrypha (of the Old Testament)? (10/15/2018)
- Did Paul Believe that the Fleshly Body Would be Resurrected (10/14/2018)
- Mapping the Diversity of Earliest Christianity (10/11/2018)
- What’s the Story of Lazarus and the Rich Man All About? (10/11/2018)
- The Fate of the Rich and the Poor: Another Story (10/8/2018)
- Heaven, Hell, and the Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man (10/8/2018)
- A Bit of Fun with 666! (10/6/2018)
- If Jesus Wasn’t Really Raised from the Dead, What Happened? (10/5/2018)
- Who Wrote the Book of Revelation? (10/4/2018)
- The Lake of Fire in Revelation (10/2/2018)
- The Afterlife in Revelation (10/1/2018)
- More on the Symbolism of Revelation (9/30/2018)
- More Symbolism in Revelation: 666, The Number of “The Beast” (9/28/2018)
- Symbolism in Revelation: The Whore of Babylon (9/26/2018)
- Overview of the Book of Revelation (9/25/2018)
- Studying the Bible as Theology and/or History (9/24/2018)
- How I Take Notes on What I Read for a Trade Book (9/23/2018)
- How Do We Know When the Gospels Were Written? (9/21/2018)
- Writing a Historical-Critical Textbook that Isn’t *Critical* (9/20/2018)
- A Peculiar Story of Peter’s Martyrdom (9/19/2018)
- Who Was the First Bishop of Rome? (9/17/2018)
- Peter: First Bishop (Pope) in Rome? (9/16/2018)
- Opportunity Knocking: A Chance to Read a Draft of My Book (9/14/2018)
- Would the Disciples Die for A Lie? Proofs for the Resurrection. (9/13/2018)
- Did Jesus Believe Sinners Would Be Annihilated? The Sheep and the Goats (9/12/2018)
- Gehenna: Where You Do Not Want to Go (9/10/2018)
- Jesus on Gehenna (9/9/2018)
- Looking for Feedback on My Views about Jesus and the Afterlife (9/7/2018)
- Did My Loss of Faith Affect my Scholarship? (9/6/2018)
- Opening for Dinner in Durham (9/4/2018)
- Thomas and His Identical Twin Jesus, in the Acts of Thomas (9/4/2018)
- Did Jesus Have a Twin Brother? (9/3/2018)
- Progress Report on the Afterlife (9/2/2018)
- Thomas, the Synoptic Gospels, and Q (8/31/2018)
- Thomas: The Most Important Gospel Outside the New Testament (8/29/2018)
- The Gospel of Thomas: An Overview (8/28/2018)
- Thomasine Christians and Others, From After the New Testament (8/27/2018)
- The Valentinian Gnostics from After The New Testament (8/26/2018)
- The Sethian Gnostics, from After The New Testament (8/24/2018)
- Proselytizing on the Blog (8/22/2018)
- Our Knowledge of Gnosticism (8/21/2018)
- What Was Discovered in the Nag Hammadi Library? (8/20/2018)
- How the Gospel of Thomas Was Discovered (8/19/2018)
- Finishing my Dissertation (8/17/2018)
- The Core of My Dissertation on The Gospel Quotations of Didymus the Blind (8/15/2018)
- Bruce Metzger and Me: Finding a Dissertation (8/14/2018)
- Is 1 Clement Older than Some Books of the New Testament? (8/13/2018)
- Did a “Pope” Write the First-Century Book of 1 Clement? (8/12/2018)
- The Letter of First Clement: An Overview (8/10/2018)
- Blog Dinner in Durham in September is Full! (8/8/2018)
- Was Jesus Thought To Be a Miracle Worker in His Own Lifetime? (8/8/2018)
- The Message of Jesus’ Miracles (8/7/2018)
- Blog Dinners Next Month. Interested? (8/6/2018)
- Is There Sarcasm in the New Testament? (8/5/2018)
- Jesus and His Miracles: Some Interesting Features (8/3/2018)
- Did the Original Gospels Describe Jesus’ Miracles? (8/2/2018)
- More Free Memberships Available (8/1/2018)
- More on the Historical Problem of Miracles (7/31/2018)
- History is not the Past! Proving Jesus’ Resurrection and Other Miracles (7/30/2018)
- My First Taste of Critical Scholarship (7/29/2018)
- Upcoming Speaking Events, Fall 2018 (7/27/2018)
- Did Peter Use a Secretary for his Writings? A Blast from the Past (7/26/2018)
- Finishing my Work on the Afterlife (7/24/2018)
- Traditions About Jesus that Are Probably Not Historical (7/23/2018)
- How a Book Gets Its Title (7/22/2018)
- The Trickiest Criterion for Determining What Happened in the Life of Jesus (7/20/2018)
- An Important Criterion for Establishing What Actually Happened (7/19/2018)
- Rules of Thumb for Reconstructing the History behind the Gospels (7/17/2018)
- The Historian’s Wish List (7/16/2018)
- What I Saw at St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai (7/15/2018)
- Visiting the Monastery at Mount Sinai: A Blast From the Past (7/14/2018)
- A Key Contradiction in the Birth Narratives of Jesus (7/12/2018)
- Are Matthew and Paul at Odds on the Most Important Issue? (7/10/2018)
- Are the Gospels Principally Concerned to Show What Actually Happened? (7/9/2018)
- Why Contradictions Matter for Understanding the Life of Jesus (7/8/2018)
- Student Excuses: A Blast From the Past (7/6/2018)
- The Historical Significance of Contradictions (7/5/2018)
- Balancing the Scholarly and the Popular (7/3/2018)
- The Broader Significance(s) of Contradictions (7/2/2018)
- The Strangest Moment of My Teaching Career (7/1/2018)
- If the Bible is Contradictory, How Can it Be Authoritative? (6/29/2018)
- Are Contradictions the Real Point? (6/27/2018)
- Internal Discrepancies in the Gospel of John (6/26/2018)
- Why Does Luke Appear to Contradict Himself? (6/25/2018)
- Sources for the Hebrew Bible: A Blast from the Past (6/24/2018)
- Does Luke Flat Out Contradict Himself? (6/22/2018)
- New Rules for Comments on the Blog (6/21/2018)
- How I Write: The Crucial Phase (6/19/2018)
- Does the Book of Acts Portray the *Teachings* of Paul Accurately? (6/18/2018)
- Does the Book of Acts Accurately Portray the Life and Teachings of Paul? (6/17/2018)
- Why I Am Obsessed with Jesus: A Blast from the Past (6/15/2018)
- How Does an Author Write a Trade Book? Phase 2. (6/14/2018)
- The Name Judas Iscariot: What Does It Mean? (6/12/2018)
- Taking the Temperature of the Blog: June 2018 (6/11/2018)
- Why Would I Call Myself Both an Agnostic and an Atheist? A Blast from the Past (6/10/2018)
- Two Rather Bizarre Accounts of How Judas Died (6/8/2018)
- Can We Know Anything Historically About How Judas Iscariot Died? (6/7/2018)
- The Death of Judas in Matthew (6/5/2018)
- Self-Reflection on The Process of Writing a Book (6/4/2018)
- Why Did Judas Iscariot Betray Jesus? (6/3/2018)
- Past and Present: One of My Debates with Dinesh D’Souza (6/2/2018)
- Did the Gospels Originally Have Titles? (5/31/2018)
- Non-Disclosure Agreements (5/30/2018)
- What the New Fragment of Mark’s Gospel Looks like (the so-called First-Century Mark) (5/28/2018)
- Did Jesus Do “Signs” To Prove Who He Was? A Blast from the Past (5/27/2018)
- Doing Research for a Trade Book (5/25/2018)
- We Do *NOT* Have a First-Century Copy of the Gospel of Mark (5/24/2018)
- Why Didn’t the Gospel Writers Tell Us Who They Were? (5/23/2018)
- Why Would an Ancient Author Write a Book Anonymously? (5/22/2018)
- Do We Know Why Jesus Went to Jerusalem? (5/19/2018)
- The Tricks of Writing for a General Audience (5/18/2018)
- How a Book Gets Written (5/17/2018)
- Back in Business! (5/16/2018)
- How I Write a Trade Book for a General Audience (5/16/2018)
- Technology Challenge at the Beach (5/15/2018)
- My Life! An Interview with Frank Statio on “The State of Things” (5/13/2018)
- Does Paul Condemn Slavery? The Case of Philemon and Onesimus. (5/11/2018)
- A Different First-Century Mark? An Interesting Piece of Sleuth Work (5/10/2018)
- Why Would It Matter If There Were a First-Century Copy of Mark? (5/9/2018)
- Bogus Christian Apologetics and a First-Century Fragment of Mark (5/8/2018)
- Seeing Capernaum and the “Jesus Boat”: A Blast From the Past (5/6/2018)
- Are Christians Intolerant? (5/4/2018)
- When Christianity Became the “Official” Religion of Rome (5/2/2018)
- Making Rome Pagan Again (5/1/2018)
- The Beginning of the End of Paganism (4/30/2018)
- Did Constantine Outlaw the Pagan Religions? (4/29/2018)
- Fresh Air – Christianity’s Path From ‘Forbidden’ To A ‘Triumph’ (4/26/2018)
- What It Takes to be a Graduate Student (4/25/2018)
- The Different Terms for Literary Deception (4/24/2018)
- Different Kinds of Literary Deceit (4/23/2018)
- A Forger Fooled By Forgery (4/22/2018)
- Additional Free Memberships Available (4/20/2018)
- My Book on Literary Forgery (4/20/2018)
- Some Academic Good News (4/18/2018)
- My Testier Days: A Response to a Critique of How Jesus Became God (4/17/2018)
- Q&A with Bart on The Heretic Happy Hour (4/16/2018)
- Why Should Faith and the Afterlife Matter? Readers’ Mailbag April 15, 2018 (4/15/2018)
- Jesus as God in the Synoptics: A Blast From the Past (4/13/2018)
- Blog Lunch in Houston Thursday April 19? (4/13/2018)
- Is There a Time and Place for Heaven and Hell? (4/11/2018)
- The Thinking Atheist Interview: The Triumph of Christianity (4/10/2018)
- Degrees of Punishment and Purgatory (4/9/2018)
- Who Invented the Idea of a Suffering Messiah? (4/8/2018)
- The Unforgivable Sin and Purgatory (4/6/2018)
- The Sixth Anniversary of the Blog! (4/4/2018)
- Making the Bestseller List (4/3/2018)
- Did Jesus Teach About Purgatory? (4/2/2018)
- An Easter Reflection 2018 (4/1/2018)
- The First Intimation of Purgatory? (3/30/2018)
- The Birth of Purgatory (3/29/2018)
- The Martyr Perpetua and Her Estranged Family (3/28/2018)
- The Martyrdom of Perpetua (3/27/2018)
- Forgery Lecture (3/26/2018)
- How Were Books Published in the Ancient World? (3/25/2018)
- Ehrman & Licona: Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? Part 2 (3/24/2018)
- The Miracle of New Life (3/22/2018)
- The Marvels of Media Attention (3/21/2018)
- Fresh Air Interview Tuesday March 20 (3/19/2018)
- Jesus and My First Girlfriend: A Blast From The Past (3/19/2018)
- Ehrman & Licona: Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? Part 1 (3/18/2018)
- Scribes Who Injected the Idea of Atonement into Luke’s Gospel (3/16/2018)
- What Happened at the Last Supper? A Textual Problem in Luke (3/15/2018)
- The Golden Rule (3/13/2018)
- Once More: The Interesting Text Called the Didache (3/12/2018)
- A Privileged View of Suffering (3/11/2018)
- My Scholarly Project on the Afterlife (3/9/2018)
- My Upcoming Writing Plans: The Afterlife and the Afterlife (3/8/2018)
- Why Women Came to be Silenced (3/6/2018)
- The Surprising Understanding of Gender in the Ancient World (3/5/2018)
- Reading The Triumph of Christianity at Quail Ridge Books (3/4/2018)
- Early Christology: How I Changed My Mind (3/2/2018)
- Futuristic Interpretations of the Book of Revelation (3/1/2018)
- What Did Jesus Look Like? (2/27/2018)
- Do We Know How Paul Died? (2/26/2018)
- The Legend of Peter’s Martyrdom (2/25/2018)
- My Interview with Michael Shermer (2/23/2018)
- Pilate’s *Own* Account of Why He Crucified Jesus (2/22/2018)
- The Ironies of Jesus’ Trial (2/20/2018)