Complete Post Archive in List Format
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- 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)
- Is There Evidence that Luke Originally Did Not Have the Story of Jesus Birth? (8/14/2017)
- Did Luke’s Gospel Originally Have The Birth Story? Readers Mailbag and a Blast from the Past (8/13/2017)
- A New Blog Podcast! (8/11/2017)
- Was Resurrection a Zoroastrian Idea? (8/10/2017)
- Daniel and a New Doctrine of Resurrection From the Dead (8/9/2017)
- A Resurrection of the Dead in the Prophet Ezekiel? (8/7/2017)
- Charges and Anti-Supernatural Biases! Readers Mailbag August 6, 2017 (8/6/2017)
- How Women Came to Be Silenced in Early Christianity: A Blast From the Past (8/4/2017)
- The Origins of Heaven and Hell (8/3/2017)
- The First Apocalypse: The Book of Daniel (8/1/2017)
- A New Attack on My Views (7/31/2017)
- A New Genre in Jewish Antiquity: The Apocalypse (7/30/2017)
- The Books of 1 and 2 Maccabees (7/28/2017)
- Background to The Christian Afterlife: The Maccabean Revolt: A Blast from the (Recent) Past! (7/27/2017)
- Lecture at Washington & Jefferson College (7/26/2017)
- Threads and Comments on the Blog (7/25/2017)
- Teaching Religion as an Agnostic (7/23/2017)
- Was There a “Moment” When I Left the Faith? (7/22/2017)
- Leaving the Faith (7/19/2017)
- Growing into Unbelief (7/19/2017)
- Apocalypticism in a Modern Idiom (7/17/2017)
- Important Announcement about the Blog! (7/16/2017)
- Did Paul Think Jesus’ Body Remained in the Grave? Mailbag July 14, 2017 (7/14/2017)
- The Essence of Biblical Apocalyptic Thought (7/13/2017)
- The Origins of Apocalypticism (7/11/2017)
- Apologies to All Colombians (7/11/2017)
- Explaining a Columbian Mudslide (7/10/2017)
- The Variety of Views of Suffering in the Bible (7/9/2017)
- Teaching about How The Bible Explains Suffering (7/7/2017)
- Is Suffering Our Fault? (7/5/2017)
- Why Would I Call Myself Both an Agnostic or an Atheist? A Blast From the Past (7/4/2017)
- Why Was Marcion Declared a Heretic? (7/3/2017)
- Do I Need to Suffer Myself to Question Whether God Exists? (7/2/2017)
- Why Not Believe in a Different Kind of God? (6/30/2017)
- The Classic “Problem” of Suffering (6/28/2017)
- Two Unsatisfactory Solutions to the Problem of Suffering (6/27/2017)
- The Kind of Suffering that is a Problem (6/26/2017)
- My Role in Editing My Most Important Book that No One Has Heard Of. (6/25/2017)
- Why I Was Afraid to Become an Agnostic (6/23/2017)
- Why Even Bother Being a Liberal Christian? (6/22/2017)
- Was Jesus Made Up? A Blast from the Past. (6/20/2017)
- How Biblical Discrepancies Can Be Theologically Liberating for a Christian (6/19/2017)
- How Did Judas Iscariot Die? Readers’ Mailbag June 18, 2017 (6/18/2017)
- A Very Different Portrayal of Jesus’ Death (6/16/2017)
- How a Non-Historical Account Can Be Meaningful: The Death of Jesus in Mark (6/15/2017)
- A New Way of Reading the Bible (6/14/2017)
- More of What I Believed When I Was a Committed (non-fundamentalist) Christian (6/11/2017)
- What I Believed as a Committed but but non-Fundamentalist Christian (6/10/2017)
- Can (or Should) We Change the Canon of Scripture? A Blast from the Past (6/8/2017)
- Update on my Publication Plans (6/7/2017)
- What I Came To Believe About the Bible (6/6/2017)
- What Really Happened to Me: Demythologizing the New Testament (6/5/2017)
- Why Have I Stopped Explaining How I Lost My Faith? Readers’ Mailbag June 4, 2017 (6/4/2017)
- Why It Didn’t Happen that Way. The Stories of Jesus’ Birth (6/2/2017)
- Another “True” Story that Didn’t Happen? Jesus’ Birth in Luke (6/1/2017)
- Is Theological “Truth” More Important than Historical Accuracy? (5/30/2017)
- An Example of a True Story that Didn’t Happen: Part 1 (5/29/2017)
- Would I Be Personally Devastated if the Mythicists Were Right? A Blast From the Past (5/28/2017)
- True Stories that Didn’t Happen (5/26/2017)
- The Gospels as Myths (5/24/2017)
- The Gospels as Natural Histories (5/23/2017)
- The Gospels as Supernatural Histories (5/22/2017)
- How Does A Book Become A Bestseller? Readers’ Mailbag April 21, 2017 (5/21/2017)
- Can Myths Be True and Meaningful? (5/19/2017)
- Appreciating the Myths of the Bible (5/17/2017)
- Becoming a Non-Fundamentalist Christian (5/16/2017)
- Fundamentalism and the Truth of the Bible (5/15/2017)
- Eyewitnesses and the Gospels: A Blast From the Past (5/14/2017)
- Finding More Problems in the Old Testament (5/12/2017)
- Finding Problems in the Old Testament (5/11/2017)
- How I First Realized There Are Mistakes in the Bible (5/9/2017)
- My Resistance to Change at Princeton Seminary (5/8/2017)
- My Encounter with the Enlightenment (5/7/2017)
- Mythicists and the Virgin Birth: Readers’ Mailbag May 6, 2017 (5/6/2017)
- What Happened Next: My Life After Moody Bible Institute (5/4/2017)
- The Life Story I Tell My Students (5/3/2017)
- Spilling the Beans on my Beliefs on the Last Day of Class (5/2/2017)
- Can Teaching Be Objective? (5/1/2017)
- The Text of the New Testament: Are the Textual Traditions of Other Ancient Works Relevant? A Blast From the Past (4/30/2017)
- Teaching the Bible as a Historical Book (4/28/2017)
- Teaching Religion in a Secular Environment (4/26/2017)
- How We Got Our 27-Book New Testament: The Case of Didymus (4/25/2017)
- My “Preparation” to Teach in a Secular Research Institution (4/24/2017)
- About Graduate Studies: A Blast from the Past (4/23/2017)
- Background to a Different View of the Afterlife: The Maccabean Revolt (4/21/2017)
- Dinner With Me? A Blog Idea. (4/20/2017)
- Job and the God Who Refuses To Answer (4/18/2017)
- Was Job Really Innocent? (4/17/2017)
- Bart Ehrman Resurrection of Jesus: A Blast from the Past (4/16/2017)
- Did David Exist? And When Did I Know I Lost My Faith? Mailbag April 15, 2017 (4/15/2017)
- Job’s So-called Friends (With Friends Like These….) (4/13/2017)
- Why I Find the Story of Job is Disturbing (4/12/2017)
- Understanding the Story of Job (4/11/2017)
- The Two Books of Job: A Blast from the Past (4/10/2017)
- My Meditation Practice and Women at the Empty Tomb: Readers Mailbag April 9, 2017 (4/9/2017)
- The Afterlife (or not) in Ecclesiastes (4/7/2017)
- Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life (4/5/2017)
- Life After Death According to Samuel (4/4/2017)
- Our Fifth Year Anniversary! (4/3/2017)
- Is Mark’s Gospel Unsophisticated? (4/2/2017)
- Recent Manuscript Discoveries: A Blast from the Past (3/31/2017)
- Returning from the Dead in the Hebrew Bible (3/30/2017)
- The Afterlife in the Hebrew Bible: Sheol (3/29/2017)
- Eternal Life and Damnation (3/27/2017)
- Bart Ehrman & Robert Price Debate – Did Jesus Exist? (3/26/2017)
- Questions on the Resurrection and My Personal Spiritual Experiences: Readers’ Mailbag (3/24/2017)
- Another Gory Account of the Afterlife: The Apocalypse of Paul (3/22/2017)
- Touring Hell: The Apocalypse of Peter (3/21/2017)
- The Burial of Jesus: A Blast from the Past (3/20/2017)
- Does Jesus Claim to Be God in Mark? And My Former Converts. Mailbag March 19, 2017 (3/19/2017)
- A Final Word (I Think!) on Group Visions (3/17/2017)
- What Really Happens With Group Visions (3/16/2017)
- Pastor Goranson, the Son of God, and I: A Blast From the Past (3/14/2017)
- Are Group Visions Possible? (3/13/2017)
- Group Visions and Agnostic Jesus Scholars: Mailbag March 12, 2017 (3/12/2017)
- What I’m Thinking about the Afterlife (3/10/2017)
- Does the Afterlife Matter for Other Things? (3/8/2017)
- Me and Jesus (3/7/2017)
- Why Do Good People Suffer? A Blast from the Past (3/5/2017)
- Thinking about Hell (3/3/2017)
- Views of the Afterlife (3/1/2017)
- Moving to My Next Book (2/28/2017)
- The First Textual Variant in the Gospel of Mark (2/27/2017)
- Christians Who Thought Jesus Was Adopted by God: A Blast From the Past (2/26/2017)
- Jesus’ Teaching in Aramaic and the Books of the Canon: Mailbag February 24, 2017 (2/24/2017)
- An Interesting Scribal Change at the Beginning of Mark (2/22/2017)
- How Variant Readings are Noted in the Greek New Testament (2/21/2017)
- A Text That Doesn’t Exist! What Do NT Translators Actually Translate? (2/20/2017)
- How Do We Know When the Gospels Were Written: A Mailbag Blast from the Past (2/19/2017)
- The Gospel Truth: Sometimes A Little Hazy (2/16/2017)
- The Standard Greek New Testament Today (2/15/2017)
- What We Now Know about the Manuscripts of the New Testament (2/14/2017)
- Free Memberships: Still Available! (2/13/2017)
- My Work Habits the Letter allegedly by Jesus’ Own Brother: Mailbag 2/12/2017 (2/12/2017)
- A Major Controversy in New Testament Textual Criticism (2/10/2017)
- Better Editions of the Greek New Testament (2/9/2017)
- Major Scribal Corruptions in the New Revised Standard Version (2/7/2017)
- Responses to Misquoting Jesus: Readers’ Mailbag (2/6/2017)
- Drew Marshall Show – Jesus Before The Gospels (2/5/2017)
- The Ending of Mark in the King James Bible (2/4/2017)
- The Woman Taken in Adultery in the King James Version (2/1/2017)
- The Trinity in the King James Bible (1/31/2017)
- Pressing Jeff Siker for Answers: An Intriguing Query and Response (1/30/2017)
- Jeff Siker Part 2: Why I am a Christian (and yet a New Testament scholar): A Blast From the Past (1/29/2017)
- Why He Is Still a Christian (And a Biblical Scholar): A Blast From the Past (1/27/2017)
- Ehrman vs Craig: Evidence for Resurrection (1/25/2017)
- Printing Errors in the King James Version (1/24/2017)
- Does It Mean What It Says? More Problems with the King James (1/23/2017)
- Problems with the Language of the King James Version (1/22/2017)
- How Do We Know What “Most Scholars” Think? (1/20/2017)
- Leading up to the King James Translation (1/19/2017)
- Where Did the King James Bible Come From? (1/18/2017)
- The First Greek New Testament (1/17/2017)
- The Oldest Printed Versions of the Greek New Testament (1/16/2017)
- My Problem(s) With Fundamentalism: A Blast from the Past (1/14/2017)
- Biblical Scholars Don’t Typically Call Themselves Biblical Historians (1/13/2017)
- What Text Are the Translators Translating? (1/11/2017)
- What Do Translators Translate? (1/10/2017)
- What About the Apocrypha? (1/9/2017)
- Did the Council of Nicaea Take Away Reincarnation and Give us the Bible? (1/8/2017)
- How We Got the New Testament (and not some other books!) (1/6/2017)
- Why Did We Get a New Testament? (1/5/2017)
- How We Got the Hebrew Bible (1/3/2017)
- How We Got the Hebrew Bible: The Older View (1/2/2017)
- What is the Hebrew Bible? (1/1/2017)
- Looking Back on the Blog 2016 (12/31/2016)
- The Copying of the Hebrew Bible (12/29/2016)
- Manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible (12/28/2016)
- Some Arduous Tasks for the New Revised Standard Version (12/27/2016)
- Finishing the Work of a Translation (12/26/2016)
- A Reflection on Christmas: Blast from the Past (12/24/2016)
- Problems with Inclusive Language Bible Translation (12/23/2016)
- The Marvels of our Universe (12/22/2016)
- Important Blog Issues (12/20/2016)
- Problems with Inclusive Language Translations (12/20/2016)
- Inclusive Language in Bible Translations (12/19/2016)
- Lost in Translation (12/18/2016)
- My Work for the New Revised Standard Version Committee (12/16/2016)
- Was Cephas Peter? The Rest of the Argument (12/15/2016)
- Cephas and Peter in the Writings of Paul (Who Knew Them) (12/14/2016)
- Lecture at Fresno City College (12/13/2016)
- Are Cephas and Peter Two Different People? (12/12/2016)
- A Different Interpretation of the Mischievous Boy, Jesus (12/10/2016)
- Jesus the Superboy: A Blast From the Past (12/9/2016)
- Free Memberships for those Who Need Them! (12/8/2016)
- A Personal Transition (12/7/2016)
- Finding Meaning in the Bible: More Responses to my Christmas Article (12/5/2016)
- Is the New Testament Authentic? Readers’ Mailbag December 4, 2016 (12/4/2016)
- Response to my Newsweek Article on Christmas (12/2/2016)
- Gift Subscriptions, 2016!! (12/1/2016)
- Newsweek Article on Christmas: Part 2 (11/29/2016)
- Newsweek Article on Christmas: Part 1 (11/28/2016)
- Looking Ahead to Christmas: A Blast from the Past (11/27/2016)
- Improving the Blog 2016 (11/26/2016)
- Personal Thoughts on Thanksgiving, 2016 (11/24/2016)
- Jesus’ Private Teachings about the King of the Jews (11/23/2016)
- Jesus’ Crucifixion as King of the Jews (11/21/2016)
- The Apocalyptic Background to Jesus’ Messiahship (11/20/2016)
- Why Would Jesus’ Disciples Think He Was The Messiah? (11/18/2016)
- Jesus the Messiah Before the Resurrection (11/17/2016)
- The Invention of a Crucified Messiah (11/16/2016)
- Lost Gospels: The Greater Questions of Mary. A Blast From the Past (11/14/2016)
- Misquoting Jesus Interview C-SPAN (11/13/2016)
- Does Paul Know that Judas Betrayed Jesus? (11/12/2016)
- Mythicists and the Crucified Messiah (11/10/2016)
- Mythicists, Jesus, and the Messiah (11/9/2016)
- What Is Gnosticism? A Blast from the Past (11/7/2016)
- What If the Mythicists Were Right: Mailbag November 6, 2016 (11/6/2016)
- Carrier and James the Brother of Jesus (11/5/2016)
- James the Brother of the Lord (11/4/2016)
- Paul’s Acquaintances: Jesus’ Disciples and Brother (11/2/2016)
- Paul and the Historical Jesus (11/1/2016)
- What Can We Do About Presuppositions? (10/30/2016)
- Jesus, the Law, and a “New” Covenant Lecture (10/29/2016)
- Gospel Evidence that Jesus Existed (10/28/2016)
- The Gospels and the Existence of Jesus (10/27/2016)
- Mythicists and the Stories Told of Jesus (10/26/2016)
- My Milwaukee Mythicist Debate (10/24/2016)
- The Best Manuscripts and Social Justice: Readers’ Mailbag October 23, 2016 (10/23/2016)
- Mythicists: Did Nazareth Exist? (10/21/2016)
- Did Jesus Exist? My Debate with Robert Price (10/20/2016)
- Marcion as Alive and Well Among Us (10/19/2016)
- The Arch-Heretic Marcion’s Theology (10/18/2016)
- The “Arch-Heretic” Marcion, Jesus, and the Jewish Law (10/16/2016)
- Why Don’t People See Discrepancies in the Bible? Readers’ Mailbag October 15, 2016 (10/15/2016)
- Anti-Judaism in the Gospels: A Blast From the Past (10/14/2016)
- Jesus and the Ten Commandments (10/13/2016)
- Jesus, The Law, and the New Covenant (10/12/2016)
- (Later) Early Christian Understandings of Heaven and Hell (10/10/2016)
- Jesus and Paul on Heaven and Hell (10/9/2016)
- Why Don’t I Call Myself a Christian? Mailbag: October 8, 2016 (10/8/2016)
- The Invention of the Afterlife: Request for Ideas! (10/6/2016)
- How I Learned To Write for a General Audience (10/5/2016)
- Gerd Luedemann on the Resurrection: A Blast From the Past (10/4/2016)
- The Inerrancy of the Bible? And Those Who Doubt. Readers’ Mailbag October 2, 2016 (10/2/2016)
- The Process of Publishing a Book (9/30/2016)
- Writing Books that Are Interesting and Important (9/29/2016)
- Why Was the Emperor Worshiped? (9/28/2016)
- Faith and History: A Blast From the Past (9/26/2016)
- Debate with a Mythicist! And the Book of Revelation. Readers’ Mailbag September 25, 2016 (9/25/2016)
- The God Julius Caesar (9/23/2016)
- Rulers as Gods: The Context of Ancient Religion (9/22/2016)
- When Men Became Gods: My Lecture in Denmark (9/21/2016)
- Bart Ehrman vs. Michael Brown on Suffering (9/19/2016)
- Fear of Dying etc.: Weekly Readers Mailbag, September 18, 2016 (9/18/2016)
- The Divine Realm in Antiquity (9/16/2016)
- The Rise of the Roman Empire (9/15/2016)
- Arguments, Evidence, and Changing Your Mind (9/14/2016)
- Bruce Metzger Beliefs, My Loss of Faith: A Blast from the Past (9/12/2016)
- Why Textual Criticism is “Safe” for Conservative Christians (9/11/2016)
- The Charities We Support (9/9/2016)
- Do Most Manuscripts Have the Original Text? (9/8/2016)
- My Original Interest in Textual Criticism (9/7/2016)
- Becoming a Textual Critic (9/6/2016)
- Does James Contradict Paul? (9/4/2016)
- How You Can Help! (9/3/2016)
- Where Did the Trinity Come From? Video Lecture. (9/2/2016)
- How I Discovered Textual Criticism (8/31/2016)
- Learning to Teach at Moody (8/30/2016)
- Moody Bible Boot Camp (8/29/2016)
- Am I A Better Person as an Agnostic? A Blast from the Past (8/28/2016)
- Were Jesus and His Followers Armed? (8/26/2016)
- Beginning My Study of the Bible (8/25/2016)
- My Original Passion for the Bible (8/24/2016)
- Different Ways of Describing the Theology of the New Testament (8/22/2016)
- How We’re Doing on the Blog (8/21/2016)
- My Work as a Historian and Paul in Conflict with the Jerusalem Church: Readers’ Mailbag August 20, 2016 (8/20/2016)
- Video of How Jesus Became God: Part 2 (of 3) (8/19/2016)
- Another Approach to New Testament Theology (8/18/2016)
- Studying New Testament Theology (8/17/2016)
- Being Trained To Interpret Texts (8/15/2016)
- Speaking in Churches as an Agnostic; and Jewish Beliefs about Afterlife. Readers Mailbag August 13, 2016 (8/13/2016)
- Video of How Jesus Became God, Part 1 (of 3) (8/12/2016)
- Why Scholars Aren’t Trained To Write Trade Books (8/11/2016)
- What Do We Call It? Coming Up with a Book Title. (8/9/2016)
- Did Ancient Secretaries Actually Compose Writings? A Blast from the Past (8/8/2016)
- Does a Person Need the Holy Spirit to Interpret the Bible? Is John’s Gospel Accurate? Readers Mailbag August 7, 2016 (8/7/2016)
- How Did Ancient Writers Use Secretaries? A Blast from the Past (8/5/2016)
- Who Could Read and Write? A Blast from the Past. (8/4/2016)
- The End of Time in Revelation and the Gospel of John (8/3/2016)
- Did John Write the Fourth Gospel? (8/2/2016)
- The Author of Revelation (8/1/2016)
- Celibacy and Polygamy in the Bible: Weekly Readers’ Mailbag July 30, 2016 (7/30/2016)
- Who Wrote the Book of Revelation and the Fourth Gospel? (7/28/2016)
- Bart Ehrman discusses the Apocalypticist (7/27/2016)
- Constantine’s Vision(s): What Did He Really See and When? (7/26/2016)
- Constantine’s Vision according to Eusebius (7/24/2016)
- Metzger and the Squirrel Part 2: Another Blast from the Past (7/23/2016)
- Bruce Metzger and the Squirrel: A Blast from the Past (7/21/2016)
- Two Versions of Constantine’s Vision (7/20/2016)
- Constantine Before His Conversion (7/19/2016)
- Constantine and the Battle at the Milvian Bridge (7/18/2016)
- Knowing the “Original” Text — of the NT or of Isaiah. Weekly Readers’ Mailbag July 17, 2016 (7/17/2016)
- How Constantine Became Emperor (7/15/2016)
- Preface to Constantine: The Rule of the Four (7/13/2016)
- The Emperor Constantine: Some Background (7/12/2016)
- Are the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Manuscripts Reliable? A Blast From the Past (7/11/2016)
- Suggestions for Further Reading on the Pentateuch (7/10/2016)
- Did Matthew Write in Hebrew? Did Jesus Institute the Lord’s Supper? Did Josephus Mention Jesus? Weekly Readers’ Mailbag July 9, 2016 (7/9/2016)
- Another Creation Story (7/8/2016)
- Other Myths of the Flood from the Ancient Near East (7/6/2016)
- When Was the World Created? A Blast From the Past (7/5/2016)
- Modern Views of the Authorship of the Pentateuch (7/3/2016)
- Did Moses Write the Pentateuch? The JEDP Hypothesis. (7/2/2016)
- Other Literary Tensions in the Pentateuch (7/1/2016)
- Biblical Anachronisms: The Philistines and Beersheba (6/30/2016)
- Literary Tensions in the Creation Account of Genesis (6/28/2016)
- Who Wrote the Pentateuch? Early Questions of Authorship. (6/27/2016)
- The Name of Saul/Paul and the Sources of the Pentateuch: Weekly Mailbag June 26, 2016 (6/26/2016)
- More on Numbers of Converts (6/24/2016)
- Back to the Question of How Many People Converted (6/23/2016)
- Follow up on Knocking Opportunity…. (6/21/2016)
- Opportunity Comes Knocking!! (6/21/2016)
- Paul’s Converted Vision of Himself (6/20/2016)
- What Paul’s Conversion Meant (6/19/2016)
- Reading Suggestions for the New Testament: A Blast from the Past (6/18/2016)
- The Conversion of Paul (6/16/2016)
- How Paul Persecuted the Christians (6/14/2016)
- Some Comments on the Gospel of John: (Based on John Spong’s Book). A Blast from the Past (6/12/2016)
- Jesus’ Death and Resurrection for Salvation; Paul’s Collection; and My Sunday Mornings: Readers’ Mailbag June 11, 2016 (6/11/2016)
- Progressive Spirit Interview (6/9/2016)
- I Need Some Suggestions! (6/8/2016)
- Paul, Jesus, and the Messiah (6/7/2016)
- Paul’s Own (and Only) Gospel (6/5/2016)
- Were Jesus’ Followers Crazy? Was He? Mailbag June 4, 2016 (6/4/2016)
- The Core of Paul’s Gospel (6/2/2016)
- Paul as a Persecutor of the Church (5/30/2016)
- A Personal Note and a Bit of a Bummer (5/29/2016)
- Jesus’ Death; Good Scholars; and Writing the First Book: Readers’ Mailbag May 28, 2016 (5/28/2016)
- The Resurrection and the Beginning of the Church (5/27/2016)
- How Did Christianity Start? (5/26/2016)
- How Many Christians Could Read? (5/24/2016)
- The Accuracy of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians (5/22/2016)
- How Many Churches? How Many Letters? (5/21/2016)
- How Significant Was Early Christianity? (5/19/2016)
- Whom Do We Consider a Christian? (5/18/2016)
- Playing with the Numbers (of Christians) (5/17/2016)
- How Many Christians Were There? (5/16/2016)
- The Rate of Christian Growth (5/15/2016)
- Paul in a Nutshell and NT Views of Crucifixion: Readers Mailbag May 13, 2016 (5/13/2016)
- Christians and their Exaggerated Numbers (5/12/2016)
- Trolling Advice! (5/11/2016)
- Help!! (5/10/2016)
- Who Counts as a Christian? (5/10/2016)
- My Progress on the Book (5/9/2016)
- My Trip to Athens (5/7/2016)
- Life After Death in Rome, and other Questions. Readers’ Mailbag May 6, 2016 (5/6/2016)
- The Conversion of Constantine and Beyond (5/4/2016)
- Final Exam for New Testament Class (2016) (5/3/2016)
- Why Christianity Succeeded (5/2/2016)
- My Debate with Richard Bauckham – Round 2 (5/1/2016)
- The Death of Paul in Acts and Unrelated Topics: Readers’ Mailbag April 29, 2016 (4/29/2016)
- The Early Growth of Christianity (4/28/2016)
- From Jewish Sect to Gentile Church (4/26/2016)
- Roman Religion as the Context for Christianity (4/25/2016)
- Bart Ehrman vs Richard Bauckham – Round 1 (4/24/2016)
- The Fear of Hell, Good Debaters, and the Name of God: Mailbag April 22, 2016 (4/22/2016)
- Older Explanations for Why Christianity Succeeded (4/21/2016)
- The Triumph of Christianity: The Ultimate Question (4/20/2016)
- The New Book: The Triumph of Christianity (4/19/2016)