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• 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)
• The Increasing Innocence of Pilate in the Death of Jesus (2/19/2018)
• Why Discrepancies Matter for Interpretation (2/18/2018)
• Why Differences and Discrepancies Matter Theologically/Religiously (2/16/2018)
• A Welcome Review of The Triumph of Christianity (2/15/2018)
• Being Blindstruck by Triumph (2/13/2018)
• The Conversion of Constantine (2/12/2018)
• Beginning the Triumph of Christianity (2/11/2018)
• How Was Jesus *Really* Born? The Proto-Gospel of James (2/9/2018)
• Small Differences that Make a Difference (2/7/2018)
• Jesus Kissing Mary Magdalene: A Blast From the Past (2/6/2018)
• Do We KNOW the Original Words of the NT? (2/5/2018)
• On Being Controversial (2/4/2018)
• Do the Differences in Our Manuscripts Matter? (2/2/2018)
• Conservative Reactions to Misquoting Jesus (2/1/2018)
• Misquoting Jesus and My Fundamentalist Faith (1/30/2018)
• Jesus and Paul: Similarities and Differences (1/29/2018)
• What Is My Best Book for a General Audience? (1/28/2018)
• Are Paul and Jesus on the Same Page? (1/26/2018)
• Is Paul Given Too Much Credit? (1/24/2018)
• Was Jesus Given Special Treatment? (1/23/2018)
• Pilate, Who Never “Learned His Lesson” (1/22/2018)
• Pontius Pilate: A Sensitive Guy…. (1/21/2018)
• Illuminating Exercises: The Position Paper Assignments for My NT Greek Class (1/20/2018)
• Was Paul a Misogynist? (1/18/2018)
• Paul and His Female Disciple Thecla (1/17/2018)
• Paul’s Views of Women (1/16/2018)
• Pre-order Triumph of Christianity and Get Some Serious Perks!! (1/15/2018)
• Request for Help! Your Favorite Podcasts. (1/13/2018)
• Accessing the Bart Ehrman Blog Podcast (1/12/2018)
• My Greek New Testament Course (1/12/2018)
• The Blog Podcast (1/11/2018)
• Were Cut and Paste Jobs Common in Antiquity? Guest Post by Brent Nongbri (1/9/2018)
• More Cutting and Pasting? Paul’s Letter to the Philippians (1/8/2018)
• Can Historians Be Neutral? (1/7/2018)
• My Long Favorite Pauline Letter: Philippians (1/5/2018)
• January Dinner Full! (1/4/2018)
• February Dinner Full! (1/4/2018)
• Speaking Engagements and Blog Dinners for January and February (1/3/2018)
• Is 2 Corinthians *FIVE* Letters? (1/2/2018)
• Did Romans Allow Jews to Bury Crucified Victims? Readers’ Mailbag January 1, 2018 (1/1/2018)
• Year in Review 2017! (12/31/2017)
• Are There Cut-and-Paste Jobs in the New Testament? The Case of 2 Corinthians (12/30/2017)
• The Virgin Birth and the Gospel of John: A Blast from the Past (12/28/2017)
• Did They Crucify the Wrong Guy? Jesus’ Identity Switch. (12/27/2017)
• Did Jesus’ Death Matter? The Intriguing View of the Coptic Apocalypse of Peter (12/26/2017)
• Christmas Reflection 2017 (12/24/2017)
• Is the Christmas Story a Myth? (12/23/2017)
• Is the Didache One Document or Three? (12/23/2017)
• The Ethical Teachings of the Didache (12/21/2017)
• Blog Christmas Gift Idea #2: Gift Subscriptions (12/18/2017)
• Blog Christmas Gift Idea #1! Free Memberships Still Available! (12/18/2017)
• Managing the Time! Readers’ Mailbag December 17, 2017 (12/17/2017)
• A Final Statement on a Different Approach to the Synoptic Problem: Evan Powell (12/15/2017)
• Brief Reply to Garrow (12/14/2017)
• Back Again: Did Matthew Use Luke? Alan Garrow’s Reply to Mark Goodacre (12/13/2017)
• Did Matthew Copy Luke? Mark Goodacre’s Rebuttal (12/12/2017)
• A $1000 Challenge to Me: Did the Author of Matthew Use Luke? (12/11/2017)
• The Pope and the Lord’s Prayer (12/10/2017)
• Is the Blog Meaningful for You? (12/8/2017)
• Free Memberships for those Who Need Them! (12/6/2017)
• A Very Strange Saying: From the Gospel of Peter? (12/5/2017)
• The Exasperatingly Fragmentary Gospel of Peter: Readers’ Mailbag December 4, 2017 (12/4/2017)
• Could Q Have Been Lost? Readers’ Mailbag December 3, 2017 (12/3/2017)
• Last Minute: Dinner on Thursday? (12/2/2017)
• Redaction Criticism of the Gospels (12/1/2017)
• And Then There Was Q (11/29/2017)
• Arguments for Markan Priority (that Mark was the first Gospel written) (11/28/2017)
• Jesus’ Death and Resurrection in Mark: Another Blast from the Past (11/27/2017)
• Mark’s Suffering Son of God: A Blast From the Past (11/24/2017)
• Jesus in Mark: Who Knew? (11/22/2017)
• The Women in Matthew’s Genealogy: Answer to a Reader (11/21/2017)
• Jesus’ (Young?) Mother and (Half?) Brothers? The Proto-Gospel of James (11/20/2017)
• Jesus’ Mother and Brothers in Mark (11/19/2017)
• Jesus Rejected by His Own Townspeople in Mark (11/17/2017)
• Paul’s Exalted Self-Image: The Fulfillment of Ancient Prophecy (11/15/2017)
• What Is the Original Text of the Gospels? (11/14/2017)
• How Do I Read Books? A Blast From the Past (11/13/2017)
• Getting Together and Speaking Gigs (11/12/2017)
• Ehrman vs Licona Debate on the Resurrection (11/10/2017)
• Why Do Translators Include Passages They Know Are Not Original? (11/8/2017)
• 666 and Scribal Changes of the Text (11/7/2017)
• More on 666: The Number of the Beast: A Blast from the Past (11/6/2017)
• Were All Textual Changes Made by Scribes by 300 CE? Readers’ Mailbag November 5, 2017 (11/5/2017)
• Did Jesus Mean that Literally? Rewards and Punishments in the Afterlife (11/3/2017)
• Another Translation Project: The Apocryphal Gospels (11/1/2017)
• The Loeb Apostolic Fathers: The Challenges (Again) (10/31/2017)
• The Apostolic Fathers: Serendipity Strikes (10/30/2017)
• Taking the Temperature of the Blog October 2017 (10/29/2017)
• Translating the Apostolic Fathers: A Blast from the Past (10/27/2017)
• The Sheep and the Goats (10/25/2017)
• The Son of Man, Pericopes, and the Complexities of Biblical Scholarship (10/24/2017)
• The Academic Study of the New Testament (10/23/2017)
• Was My Weird Background a Help or a Hindrance: Mailbag October 22, 2017 (10/22/2017)
• Decent Burials for Crucified Victims: A Blast From the Past (10/20/2017)
• Jesus, the Sheep, and the Goats (10/18/2017)
• How Do We Know What Jesus Said or Did? The Criterion of Dissimilarity in Practice (10/17/2017)
• Are Jews and Christians Monotheists? Mailbag October 15, 2017 (10/15/2017)
• Were the Disciples Martyred for Believing the Resurrection? A Blast From the Past (10/13/2017)
• How Old Was Jesus at His Baptism, Start of His Ministry & Death? (10/11/2017)
• Explaining Jesus’ Apocalyptic Assumptions (10/10/2017)
• The Preaching of Jesus in a Nutshell (10/9/2017)
• The Skeletal Remains of Yehohanan: Readers Mailbag October 8, 2017 (10/8/2017)
• Reasonable Doubts – How Jesus Became God (10/6/2017)
• Is This the Same Teacher? Jesus in John and the Synoptics. (10/4/2017)
• Jesus’ Miracles in John and the Synoptics (10/3/2017)
• (Birthday) Gifts and (Speaking) Gigs (10/2/2017)
• Differences Between John and the Synoptics (10/1/2017)
• Lunch in Boston? (9/30/2017)
• An Introduction to the Gospel of John (9/29/2017)
• Jesus’ Teaching About the Kingdom of God (9/27/2017)
• Paul on Trial for the Resurrection (9/26/2017)
• Is Luke’s Christology Consistent? A Blast from the Past (9/25/2017)
• Did Luke Have a Doctrine of the Atonement? Mailbag September 24, 2017 (9/24/2017)
• Does the Book of Acts Underplay the Significance of Jesus’ Death? (9/22/2017)
• Two Other Ancient Jewish Sects (9/20/2017)
• Ancient Jewish Sects: Pharisees and Sadducees (9/19/2017)
• Reviewing the Afterlife (9/18/2017)
• How Changing My Views Affected My Relationships (9/17/2017)
• My Favorite Anecdote about Jesus and the Afterlife: Teeth Will Be Provided! (9/15/2017)
• Controversy Sells! (9/14/2017)
• My Major Anxiety for my Book. Are People Interested in the Afterlife? (9/12/2017)
• Too Much Money and the Afterlife (9/11/2017)
• What Did the Angels Tell the Shepherds? It Depends. Mailbag Sept. 10, 2017 (9/10/2017)
• Fun with the Jewish Christian Gospels: A Blast from the Past (9/8/2017)
• A Satirical Lesson about the Afterlife (9/7/2017)
• Looking at Hell (9/5/2017)
• Problems with Some Bible Translations, including the King James: A Blast from the Past (9/4/2017)
• Speaking in Tongues and Virgin Births: Readers’ Mailbag September 3, 2017 (9/3/2017)
• Life in Hades (9/1/2017)
• The Body and Soul in Hades (8/30/2017)
• The First Recorded Visit to the Realm of the Dead (in Western literature) (8/29/2017)
• My Graduate Level New Testament Course (8/28/2017)
• Journeys to Heaven and Hell: A Sketch of My Project (8/27/2017)
• Could Moses Write Hebrew & What Language Could Moses Speak (8/25/2017)
• My New Scholarly Project (8/24/2017)
• Do Later Manuscript Discoveries Ever Support Proposed Interpolations? (8/22/2017)
• Are There Passages Where *Every* NT Manuscript Gives the “Wrong” Reading? (8/21/2017)
• Was John the Son of Zebedee Capable of Writing a Gospel? (8/20/2017)
• Physical Persecution and the Physical Resurrection of the Dead (8/18/2017)
• A Resurrection for Tortured Jews (2 Maccabees) (8/17/2017)
• Interpolations and Textual Corruptions: The Blurry Lines (8/15/2017)