Complete Post Archive in List Format
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- Being Qualified to Write a Scholarly Book (4/12/2016)
- Why I Have Moved to a New Publisher (4/11/2016)
- The New Edition of My Textbook: Reader’s Mailbag April 10, 2016 (4/10/2016)
- Publishing with HarperOne (4/8/2016)
- Evaluating My Debate on the Book of Acts (4/6/2016)
- Is Acts Historically Reliable? The Affirmative Rebuttal (4/5/2016)
- Our Fourth Anniversary! (4/4/2016)
- HNN News Story on Jesus Before the Gospels (4/3/2016)
- The Letters of Paul: Mailbag April 1, 2016 (4/1/2016)
- Is Acts Reliable? The Negative Rebuttal (3/31/2016)
- Is the Book of Acts Historically Reliable? The Negative Case. (3/30/2016)
- Is the Book of Acts Historically Reliable? Smoke and Mirrors. (3/29/2016)
- For Anyone Who Still Needs a Free Membership! (3/28/2016)
- Bart Ehrman vs Tim McGrew – Round 2 (3/26/2016)
- My Book Sales and the “Relatives” of Paul: Weekly Reader’s Mailbag March 25, 2016 (3/25/2016)
- Is Acts Historically Reliable? The Affirmative Argument (3/24/2016)
- Major Themes in the Book of Acts (3/23/2016)
- The Literary Artistry of the Book of Acts (3/22/2016)
- The Book of Acts: An Overview (3/21/2016)
- Bart Ehrman vs Tim McGrew – Round 1 (3/19/2016)
- Memory, Eyewitnesses, and the Relevance of Jesus: Readers Mailbag (3/18/2016)
- Does the New Testament Condemn Modern Practices of Homosexuality? (3/16/2016)
- Were Paul’s Views of Women Oppressive? (3/15/2016)
- Do Paul and Jesus Represent Fundamentally Different Religions? (3/14/2016)
- Weekly Readers’ Mailbag: March 12, 2016 (3/12/2016)
- My Recitation Debates (3/11/2016)
- The Value (or Not) of Debates (3/10/2016)
- Buy New Book & Get Any Previous HarperOne Book for 50% OFF (3/9/2016)
- Irritating Amazon Reviews (3/8/2016)
- The Triumphal Entry as a Distorted Memory (3/7/2016)
- The Memory of Jesus’ Triumphal Entry (3/5/2016)
- Weekly Readers’ Mailbag: March 4, 2016 (3/4/2016)
- My First Interview on Jesus Before the Gospels (3/3/2016)
- Jesus Before the Gospels in Relation to My Other Books (3/2/2016)
- My New Book! (In Context of My Others) (3/1/2016)
- Did the Earliest Christians Believe Jesus *Became* God? (2/29/2016)
- Bart Ehrman on Problem of Suffering – UCB (2/28/2016)
- Jesus’ Virgin Birth in Mark (Reader’s Mailbag February 26, 2016) (2/26/2016)
- Christ as the Adopted Son of God (2/25/2016)
- What the Resurrection of Jesus MEANT (2/24/2016)
- A Less Weighty, Personal Matter (2/23/2016)
- Christ as Son of God in Mark’s Gospel (2/21/2016)
- My Debate with Michael Bird Feb. 12 , 2016 (2/20/2016)
- Weekly Readers’ Mailbag: February 18, 2016 (2/18/2016)
- The Controversies about Christ: Arius and Alexander (2/17/2016)
- The Son of God, the Council of Nicea, and the Da Vinci Code (2/16/2016)
- My Debate This Past Weekend (2/15/2016)
- Drew Marshall Show – How Jesus Became God (2/14/2016)
- Weekly Readers Mailbag: February 13, 2016 (2/13/2016)
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements 2016 (2/11/2016)
- On the Accuracy of Oral Traditions (2/10/2016)
- Are “Group Hallucinations” Possible? The Case of Mary. (2/9/2016)
- Upcoming Debate! (2/8/2016)
- Weekly Readers’ Mailbag: February 7, 2016 (2/7/2016)
- Q & A about Jesus Before the Gospels, Part 1 (2/5/2016)
- Technical Problems on the Blog (2/4/2016)
- Q & A about Jesus Before the Gospels, Part 3 (2/3/2016)
- Q & A about Jesus Before the Gospels: Part 2 (2/2/2016)
- Weekly Readers’ Mailbag: January 30, 2016 (1/30/2016)
- Buying David Lambert’s Book at Discount (1/28/2016)
- Do I Have the Expertise Needed for My Book? (1/28/2016)
- Did Jesus Urge People to Repent? (1/27/2016)
- Press Release! Jesus Before the Gospels (1/25/2016)
- Weekly Readers’ Mailbag: January 24, 2016 (1/24/2016)
- What Is Repentance in the Bible? Is there Repentance in the Bible? (1/22/2016)
- Jesus and the Son of Man (1/21/2016)
- Am I Converting to Islam? (1/20/2016)
- Is Repentance a Biblical Idea? Interview with David Lambert (1/19/2016)
- The Rise of Apocalypticism (1/18/2016)
- Weekly Readers’ Mailbag: January 16, 2016 (1/16/2016)
- Background to Apocalypticism: The Maccabean Revolt (1/15/2016)
- Are the Prophecies Being Fulfilled? (1/13/2016)
- Amos as a Representative Prophet (1/12/2016)
- The Prophet Amos (1/11/2016)
- The Prophetic Background of Jewish Apocalyptic Thought (1/10/2016)
- Weekly Readers’ Mailbag: January 8, 2016 (1/8/2016)
- Heaven and Hell, Part Two (1/6/2016)
- Heaven and Hell, Part One (1/5/2016)
- The Resurrection in Paul (1/3/2016)
- Readers’ Weekly Mailbag: January 2, 2016 (1/2/2016)
- Blog Year in Review 2015 (12/31/2015)
- Jesus’ Resurrection as an Apocalyptic Event (12/30/2015)
- Jesus’ Return to Life as a Resurrection (12/29/2015)
- The Death of the Messiah for Salvation (12/28/2015)
- End of Year Giving (12/27/2015)
- Readers’ Mailbag: December 27, 2015 (12/27/2015)
- A Christmas Reflection (12/24/2015)
- The Myth of the First Christmas (12/23/2015)
- Holiday Presents! (12/22/2015)
- Desmond Tutu, True Christians, and Christmas (12/22/2015)
- Christians, Muslims, and God: Wheaton College in the News (12/21/2015)
- Jesus the Suffering Messiah (12/19/2015)
- Readers’ Mailbag December 18, 2015 (12/18/2015)
- The Resurrection of the Son of God (12/16/2015)
- Did Some Disciples Not Believe in the Resurrection? (12/16/2015)
- Were the Disciples Martyred for Believing in the Resurrection? (12/14/2015)
- Ehrman-Bass Debate Did the Historical Jesus Claim to be Divine (12/12/2015)
- Readers’ Mailbag December 11, 2015 (12/11/2015)
- Does Paul Know about Judas Iscariot? (12/9/2015)
- The Reversal of the Disciples’ Decisive Disconfirmation (12/8/2015)
- How the Crucifixion Destroyed Jesus’ Vision of the Future (12/7/2015)
- Free Year-Long Memberships to Those Who Can’t Afford One!! (12/6/2015)
- Many Thanks and One More Chance! (12/6/2015)
- Readers’ Mailbag December 4, 2015 (12/4/2015)
- Jesus Death as King of the Jews (12/2/2015)
- Judas and the Messianic Secret (12/1/2015)
- Jesus’ Claim to Be the Messiah (11/30/2015)
- Gift Memberships to the Blog, 2015 (11/29/2015)
- Readers’ Mailbag November 27, 2015 (11/28/2015)
- Thanksgiving Reflections 2015 (11/25/2015)
- The SBL and the Blog (11/24/2015)
- The Teaching of Jesus (11/23/2015)
- Fifty Ways to Forge a Gospel (11/22/2015)
- Readers’ Mailbag November 20, 2015 (11/20/2015)
- The Beginning and End as Keys to the Middle (11/19/2015)
- The Baptism of Jesus as an Apocalyptic Event (11/18/2015)
- Albert Schweitzer and the Apocalyptic Jesus (11/16/2015)
- The Apocalyptic Context for Jesus’ View of the Messiah (11/15/2015)
- Readers’ Mailbag November 13, 2015 (11/13/2015)
- How Do We Know What Jesus Said About Himself? (11/12/2015)
- Jesus, the Messiah, and the Resurrection (11/11/2015)
- Another Problem with Calling Jesus the Messiah (11/9/2015)
- Jesus and the Messianic Prophecies – Did the Old Testament Point to Jesus? (11/8/2015)
- Readers’ Mailbag on Revelation: November 6, 2015 (11/6/2015)
- The Crucified Messiah in 1 Corinthians (11/5/2015)
- The Jewish Messiah (11/4/2015)
- Jesus as the Messiah in Mark’s Gospel (11/2/2015)
- I’m Openly Secular Documentary (11/1/2015)
- Jesus as the Son of God in Mark (10/30/2015)
- Reader’s Mailbag on Virgin Birth: 10/29/15 (10/29/2015)
- An Irritating Criticism: My View of Paul’s View of Christ (10/28/2015)
- Really??? Stories of Jesus’ Virgin Birth (10/26/2015)
- Taking the Pulse of the Blog (10/25/2015)
- Is Luke’s Christology Consistent? (10/23/2015)
- Arguments that Luke Did Not Originally Have the Virgin Birth (10/22/2015)
- Did Luke’s Gospel Originally Have the Virgin Birth? (10/21/2015)
- Scribes Who Changed the Voice at Jesus Baptism? (10/19/2015)
- Some Flak (Already!) Over My New Book (10/18/2015)
- Other Christians Who Denied that Christ was Divine by Nature (10/16/2015)
- Was Christ God? The View of Jewish-Christian Ebionites (10/15/2015)
- Adoptionistic Christologies (10/14/2015)
- Are Their Any Completely Anti-Heretical Manuscripts? (10/13/2015)
- Luke’s Last Supper and Orthodox Corruptions of Scripture (10/12/2015)
- The Striking Conclusion: Jesus’ Last Supper in Luke (10/10/2015)
- Luke’s Understanding of Jesus’ Death (10/9/2015)
- Anti-Judaism in the Gospel of Luke (10/8/2015)
- Jesus’ Death as a Prophet in Luke (10/7/2015)
- My Big Day Appeal (10/5/2015)
- Ehrman Licona Debate – Prove Jesus Rose from Dead (10/3/2015)
- Luke’s View of Jesus’ Death (10/1/2015)
- Why Would a Scribe Change Luke’s Account of the Last Supper? (9/30/2015)
- The Last Supper in Luke: An Important Textual Problem (9/29/2015)
- Early Christian Docetism (9/28/2015)
- My Debate with Kyle Butt on the Problem of Suffering (9/26/2015)
- How Can You Know A Scribe’s Intentions? (9/25/2015)
- How Consistent are Orthodox Corruptions of Scripture? (9/23/2015)
- On Falsification and Forgery (9/22/2015)
- How Do You Research Orthodox Corruptions? (9/21/2015)
- Do I Have a Grudge Against Dr. Bruce Metzger? (9/19/2015)
- Live Stream the Debate Tonight (9/18/2015)
- Magic and Manuscripts (9/17/2015)
- Debate in Dallas on Friday (9/17/2015)
- Why Intentional Changes of the Text Might Matter (9/16/2015)
- Why Bother With Anything *Except* the “Original” Text?? (9/15/2015)
- My Focus on Christology in The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture (9/13/2015)
- The Unusual Thesis of The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture (9/12/2015)
- Back to the Question: The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture (9/11/2015)
- Back to the Forgery of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife (9/10/2015)
- Christ’s Self-Ignorance (9/8/2015)
- On “Knowing” the Original Words of the NT (9/7/2015)
- How Jesus Became God on Humanist Hour (9/5/2015)
- Irrelevant Arguments and the So-called Tenacity of the Tradition (9/4/2015)
- What Is the “Original” Text? (9/2/2015)
- Arguments that We Have the Original Text (9/1/2015)
- Contradictions and Silly Claims by Textual Critics (8/31/2015)
- Textual Criticism Syllabus (8/29/2015)
- Ruffling the Feathers of My Fellow Textual Critics (8/28/2015)
- How God Could Become a Human (8/26/2015)
- Did Scribes Add the Passage of the Bloody Sweat? (8/25/2015)
- The Bloody Sweat and the Scribes Who Changed It (8/24/2015)
- How Textual Criticism Became Relevant (8/22/2015)
- Jesus’ Lack of Agony (8/21/2015)
- When I First Realized the Importance of Textual Criticism: The Bloody Sweat (8/20/2015)
- An Amusing Anecdote about the State of Textual Criticism (8/19/2015)
- My Original Foray into Textual Criticism (8/18/2015)
- The Malaise in New Testament Textual Criticism (8/17/2015)
- Why New Testament Textual Criticism Had Grown Moribund (8/15/2015)
- When I Started in Textual Criticism (8/14/2015)
- Gentle as a Nurse in 1 Thessalonians 2:7 (8/13/2015)
- More Intriguing Problems with 1 Thessalonians 2:7 (8/11/2015)
- The Textual Problem of 1 Thessalonians 2:7 (8/10/2015)
- A Thief in the Night (8/9/2015)
- The Myth of the Rapture: Calling a Spade a Spade (8/8/2015)
- The Return of Jesus (Rapture?) in 1 Thessalonians (8/6/2015)
- Paul’s Letter to the Thessalonians (8/5/2015)
- Mark 1:1 as an Intentional Alteration of the Text (8/4/2015)
- A Variant in Mark 1:1 — Accidental or Intentional? (8/3/2015)
- An Intentional Change in Mark 15:34 (8/2/2015)
- Illustration of a Textual Change: Did Mark Make a Mistake? (7/31/2015)
- Intentional Changes of the Text (7/30/2015)
- More Hard Issues on the Qur’an Fragments (7/29/2015)
- Fundamentalist Mistakes (7/28/2015)
- Lunch Auction (7/27/2015)
- More on the Discovery of Ancient Qur’an Fragments (7/27/2015)
- The Significance of an Astounding New Discovery (7/25/2015)
- Accidental Scribal Changes (7/24/2015)
- Patristic Evidence for the New Testament (7/21/2015)
- The Versional Evidence for the New Testament (7/20/2015)
- Google Cambridge Lecture on Forged (7/19/2015)
- New Testament Manuscripts: Good News and Bad News (7/18/2015)
- The Manuscripts of the New Testament (7/16/2015)
- What Is Textual Criticism? (7/15/2015)
- Orthodoxy and Proto-Orthodoxy (7/14/2015)
- Earliest Christian Diversity (7/13/2015)
- Orthodoxy and Heresy in the New Testament Itself (7/12/2015)
- A Milestone on the Blog (7/11/2015)
- NC Bookwatch: Lost Christianities (7/9/2015)
- Taming the Diversity of the New Testament (7/8/2015)
- Doesn’t the New Testament Show that Christianity Was Originally Unified? (7/7/2015)
- How Diverse Was Early Christianity? (7/6/2015)
- Evaluating the Views of Walter Bauer (7/4/2015)
- A Radically Different View of Orthodoxy and Heresy (7/3/2015)
- What Are Orthodoxy and Heresy? (7/2/2015)
- What is An Orthodox Corruption of Scripture? (6/30/2015)
- Guest Post by Brice Jones on the Reliability of the Early Manuscripts (6/29/2015)
- Guest Post – Brent Nongbri on Manuscript Discoveries (6/28/2015)
- Kickstarting a Debate (6/26/2015)
- Questions on the Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library (6/25/2015)
- Contradictory Stories and Historical Method (6/24/2015)
- The Dead Sea Scrolls (6/23/2015)
- My Response To Mark Goodacre on the Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library (6/22/2015)
- Mark Goodacre: Questioning the Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library (6/20/2015)
- The Contents of the Nag Hammadi Library (6/18/2015)
- The Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library (6/17/2015)
- What I Saw at St. Catherine’s Monastery (6/15/2015)
- St. Catherine’s Monastery (6/14/2015)
- Tischendorf and the Discovery of Codex Sinaiticus (6/12/2015)
- How Are Manuscripts Discovered (6/11/2015)
- The Discovery of Lost Documents (6/10/2015)
- Papias and the Eyewitnesses (6/9/2015)
- Lecture: Jesus and the Historian (6/7/2015)
- Wine in the Kingdom (6/6/2015)
- A Fantastic Saying of Jesus in Papias (6/5/2015)
- Other Accounts of the Death of Judas (6/4/2015)
- My Trip to Turkey (6/3/2015)
- The Death of Judas in the NT (6/2/2015)
- The Lost Writings of Papias (6/1/2015)
- Losing Religion in America (5/30/2015)
- The Nature of John’s Signs Source (5/28/2015)
- Some Evidence for a Signs Source in John (5/27/2015)
- Why Jesus Does Miracles (5/26/2015)
- The Temptation Narrative Missing from John (5/25/2015)
- Signs in the Gospel of John (5/23/2015)
- Back To the Discovery of Lost Early Christian Writings (5/22/2015)
- My Resentment at Moody Bible Institute (5/21/2015)
- Authors Who “Just Want to Sell Books” (5/20/2015)
- How I Moved into Trade Publishing (5/19/2015)
- On Writing for A College Audience (5/18/2015)
- How the Bible Explains Suffering – Video (5/16/2015)
- Writing to Become Famous? (5/15/2015)
- The Threat of Judgment (5/14/2015)
- Education at Moody (5/13/2015)
- My Moody Experience (5/12/2015)
- My Fundamentalist Beginning (5/11/2015)
- Year Three on the Blog (5/9/2015)
- What Can We Know about the Life of Jesus? (5/8/2015)
- Truth and History (5/7/2015)
- Another Jewish Miracle Worker (5/6/2015)
- Steps Toward Publishing the (a) Book (5/4/2015)
- Misquoting Jesus Interview on WPSU (5/2/2015)
- York Symposium on Early Christian Apocrypha (5/1/2015)
- My Final Exam for NT (5/1/2015)
- Help! My Views of Memory (4/28/2015)
- The Community Behind the Gospel of John: Part 2 (4/27/2015)
- The Community Behind the Gospel of John (4/25/2015)
- More on Collective Memory (4/24/2015)
- My Memory Book, Chapter 6 on “Collective Memory” (4/22/2015)
- My Memory Book: False Memories and the Life of Jesus (4/20/2015)
- BBC Clip on “The Lost Gospels” (4/19/2015)
- On Being Controversial (4/18/2015)
- “The Same” Traditions in Oral Cultures (4/17/2015)
- Differences Between Oral and Written Cultures (4/16/2015)
- My Memory Book, Chapter 4 Again: The Death of Jesus (4/15/2015)
- What Is A Memory? (4/13/2015)
- Ramblings on Charity and Religion (4/11/2015)
- Can A Made-Up Story Be A False Memory? (4/10/2015)
- My Memory Book, Ch. 4a (4/10/2015)
- My Memory Book, ch. 3 (4/8/2015)
- My Memory Book, chs. 1-2 (4/7/2015)
- How I’m Writing This Book (4/6/2015)
- Sketch of My Memory Book (4/4/2015)
- Different Kinds of Memory (4/1/2015)
- My Original Interest in Memory (3/31/2015)
- Why I Shifted My Research Plans (3/30/2015)
- My New Project on Memory (3/29/2015)
- Jesus, Matthew, and the Law (3/27/2015)
- Is Paul at Odds with Matthew? (3/25/2015)
- Paul’s Christian Enemies: Galatians (3/24/2015)
- Trip to Turkey? (3/23/2015)
- Lost Letters of Paul’s Opponents (3/23/2015)
- About the Blog: Charities and Improvements (3/22/2015)
- Q and the Passion Narrative (3/20/2015)
- Did Matthew Copy Luke or Luke Matthew? (3/19/2015)
- Q and The Gospel of Thomas (3/18/2015)
- Evidence that the Synoptics Are Copying (one another? other sources?) (3/17/2015)
- The Lost Q Source (3/16/2015)
- Quickly on the Blog (3/15/2015)
- Taking the Temperature of the Blog (3/14/2015)
- Paul’s “Exceptional” Letter to the Romans (3/13/2015)
- Why I Wish We Had More of Paul’s Letters (3/12/2015)
- Lost Christian Writings: The Letters of Paul (3/11/2015)
- Is “Jehovah” in the Bible? (3/10/2015)
- A Source for the Birth Narratives in Matthew and Luke? (3/9/2015)
- My Debate with Dan Wallace: Is the Original NT Lost? (3/7/2015)
- Bethlehem and Nazareth in Luke: Where Was Jesus Really Born? (3/6/2015)
- Bethlehem and Nazareth in Matthew (3/5/2015)
- Was Jesus From Nazareth? (3/4/2015)
- More on the Name “Nazareth” (3/3/2015)
- Finally! How To Understand the Symbols of Revelation (2/28/2015)
- The Book of Revelation as an Apocalypse (2/25/2015)
- The Book of Revelation in Historical Context (2/23/2015)
- On Debating a Fundamentalist (2/21/2015)
- The Book of Revelation and the Apocalypse Genre (2/20/2015)
- Apocalypticism and Apocalypses (2/20/2015)
- 666: The Number of the Beast (2/18/2015)
- Symbolism in the Book of Revelation (2/17/2015)
- Creative Uses of Numbers in Scripture (2/17/2015)
- Debates For A Price (2/14/2015)
- Three Murders in Chapel Hill (2/13/2015)
- More on Greek Numerals (2/11/2015)
- How To Make Greek Numbers (!) (2/10/2015)
- My Non-Disclosure Agreement and the Gospel of Judas (2/10/2015)
- False Rumors (or lies?) About My Teaching (2/9/2015)
- My UNC Seminar Tomorrow (2/6/2015)
- The Gospel of Judas: Discovery, Restoration, and (Non-)Disclosure (2/5/2015)
- How I First Learned that the Gospel of Judas Had Been Discovered (2/4/2015)
- Finding Out about the Gospel of Judas (2/3/2015)
- Non-Disclosure Agreements and the Gospel of Judas Iscariot (2/2/2015)
- GUEST POST! Dr. Brent Nongbri on How We Date Manuscripts (2/1/2015)
- Another (Final!) Insight into that Mummy Mask and Papyrus (1/30/2015)
- Why I’d Be Thrilled If A First-Century Manuscript Appeared (1/29/2015)
- Talks at the Smithsonian, March 21 (1/28/2015)
- Why Are Evangelical Scholars So Interested in Finding a First-Century Manuscript? (1/27/2015)
- How Accurate Are our Earliest NT Manuscripts? (1/25/2015)
- Would a First-Century Fragment of Mark Matter? (1/24/2015)
- An Expert Talks About Mummy Masks and Papyri (1/23/2015)
- Defending the Destruction of Mummy Masks (1/21/2015)
- New Manuscripts and the Destruction of Antiquities (1/20/2015)
- Whom Do We Admit into our Graduate Program? (1/19/2015)
- Public Reactions to Muslim Extremists (1/18/2015)
- New Testament Programs and Ancient Med. (1/16/2015)
- Ancient Mediterranean Religions?!? (1/14/2015)
- Departments of Religious Studies (1/13/2015)
- The Graduate Program in Religious Studies (1/12/2015)
- Defending Myself (1/11/2015)
- My Forgery Seminar (Syllabus) (1/10/2015)
- Matthew’s “Filling Full” of Scripture (1/7/2015)
- Matthew’s Fulfillment of Scripture Citations (1/6/2015)
- Matthew’s Ancient Approach to Scripture (1/5/2015)
- Did Jesus Exist? Interview by Guy Raz (1/4/2015)
- The Virgin Birth and Jesus’ Brothers (1/3/2015)
- The Blog Year in Review: 2014 (12/31/2014)
- Miraculous (Not Virgin) Births in Ancient Pagan Texts (12/30/2014)
- Widespread Claims of Pagan Virgin Births (12/29/2014)
- The Virgin Birth and the Gospel of John (12/28/2014)
- Does Mark’s Gospel Implicitly Deny the Virgin Birth? (12/27/2014)
- Why Was Jesus Born of a Virgin in Matthew and Luke? (12/24/2014)
- 2 Thessalonians as a Forgery: The Theological Argument (12/23/2014)
- The Writing Style of 2 Thessalonians (12/22/2014)
- Do You Have To Believe in the Virgin Birth? (12/21/2014)
- Is 2 Thessalonians Based on 1 Thessalonians? (12/20/2014)
- 2 Thessalonians: The History of the Discussion (12/19/2014)
- The Inauthenticity of 2 Thessalonians: The Simple Reason (12/17/2014)
- Pauline Forgeries: 2 Thessalonians as a Test Case (12/16/2014)
- Forgeries in the Name of Paul (12/15/2014)
- Giving Ideas (12/14/2014)
- Why Do I Devote Myself to Studying the Bible? (12/13/2014)
- The Best of Times and the Worst of Times (12/12/2014)
- Is the Discovered Gospel the Gospel of Peter? (12/10/2014)
- The Discovery of the Gospel of Peter (12/9/2014)
- Why Not the Gospel of Peter? (12/8/2014)
- Do You Need A Free Membership? (12/6/2014)
- Gift Memberships on the Blog 2014 (12/6/2014)
- Why Was the Gospel of Mark Attributed to Mark? (12/5/2014)
- Why Was the Gospel of Luke Attributed to Luke? (12/4/2014)
- Why Was the Gospel of John Attributed to John? (12/2/2014)
- Why Was The Gospel of Matthew Attributed to Matthew? (12/1/2014)
- Do Textual Variants Really Matter for Anything? (11/29/2014)
- Why Are the Gospels Anonymous? (11/28/2014)
- Papias on Matthew and Mark (11/26/2014)
- Believing Papias When It’s Convenient (11/25/2014)
- Papias as an Earwitness? (11/25/2014)
- Why Don’t You Believe Like Your Teacher, Dr. Metzger? (11/23/2014)
- Papias and the Gospels: Some Background (11/21/2014)
- The Four Gospels in the Muratorian Fragment (11/20/2014)
- The Gospels are Finally Named! Irenaeus of Lyons. (11/18/2014)
- When Did the Gospels Get Their Names? (11/17/2014)
- The Year’s Society of Biblical Literature Meeting (11/15/2014)
- Did the Beloved Disciple Write the Gospel of John? (11/14/2014)
- Our Anonymous Gospels, Starting with Luke (11/14/2014)
- A Newly Discovered Gospel? Was Jesus Married with Children??? (11/12/2014)
- Some Other Gnostics (11/11/2014)
- A Better Kind of Fundamentalist (11/10/2014)
- My New Summary of Gnosticism (11/7/2014)
- My New Discussion of Gnosticism: Introduction (11/6/2014)
- Discussion Forum (Please read to the end) (11/5/2014)
- Why Would Christian Authors Write Forgeries? (11/4/2014)
- A New Box on Why A (Christian) Author Would Lie About Who He Was (11/3/2014)
- Who Changed the Bible and Why? Diane Rehm Show (11/2/2014)
- Why I’m To Be Pitied for Having Been the Wrong Kind of Fundamentalist (11/1/2014)
- New Boxes Related to Literary Forgery and the NT (10/31/2014)
- New Boxes on Problematic Social Values in the New Testament (10/30/2014)
- New Boxes on Jesus as God in the NT (10/28/2014)
- New Boxes: Oral traditions and the Dates of the Gospels (10/27/2014)
- What Is Different in My Textbook? (10/26/2014)
- Can My Students Believe in the Inerrancy of the Bible? (10/24/2014)
- The Bloody Sweat and Historical Plausibility (10/22/2014)
- Introduction to My Introduction (to the NT) (10/20/2014)
- The Life of Brian & The Apocalyptic Jesus (10/20/2014)
- The New Discussion Forum!!! Soon Up and Running. (10/19/2014)
- Jesus Sweating Blood: Transcriptional Probabilities (10/17/2014)
- Jesus’ Sweating Blood and “intrinsic” evidence (10/16/2014)
- External Evidence in Textual Criticism (10/15/2014)
- Textual Scholars as Technicians (10/13/2014)
- On Changing One’s Mind (10/12/2014)
- A Text-Critical Dissertation (10/11/2014)
- My Graduate Training (Textual Criticism??) (10/10/2014)
- My Training as a Textual Critic (10/9/2014)
- Where Does One Deal with Textual Criticism? (10/7/2014)
- Getting the Facts of My Life Straight (10/6/2014)
- Where Do You Start an Introduction to the NT? (10/5/2014)
- Getting Started on My NT Introduction (10/3/2014)
- On Boring Textbooks (10/1/2014)
- The Importance of a Comparative Approach to the NT (9/30/2014)
- Gift Subscriptions!!! (9/29/2014)
- New Discussion Forum: Suggestions? (9/28/2014)
- The (Ancient) Genre of the Gospels (9/26/2014)
- Placing the New Testament in Its Own Historical Context (9/25/2014)
- A Historical Approach to the New Testament (9/24/2014)
- Agreeing to Do the Textbook (9/23/2014)
- My New Testament Textbook (9/22/2014)
- Yale Shaffer Lectures 3 of 3 – Christ Against the Jews (9/21/2014)
- Letter from Urban Ministries of Durham (9/19/2014)
- Why We Need Tenure (9/18/2014)
- What Counts for Tenure? (9/17/2014)
- The Academic Tenure Situation (9/16/2014)
- A Day In the Life of a Research Professor (9/15/2014)
- Manuscripts and Christian Magic (9/14/2014)
- New Discovery of an Ancient Christian Amulet (9/12/2014)
- How I Actually Write (9/11/2014)
- How I Begin to Write (9/10/2014)
- Communicating with Non-Scholars (9/9/2014)
- Choosing a Topic for A Trade Book (9/8/2014)
- Yale Shaffer Lectures 2 of 3 – Christ The Divine Man (9/8/2014)
- How Do You Know What To Write About? (9/6/2014)
- Where Do You Start Reading? (9/4/2014)
- Writing a Trade Book (9/3/2014)
- My Approach to Doing Research (9/2/2014)
- Upcoming Speaking Schedule and … Cruises! (9/1/2014)
- Yale Shaffer Lectures 1 of 3 – Christ Come in the Flesh (8/31/2014)
- Titles for Trade Books, Like Misquoting Jesus (8/29/2014)
- Titles of Scholarly Books (8/28/2014)
- Scholarly vs. Trade Books (8/27/2014)
- The Other Gospels: The Trade Book Version (8/26/2014)
- Apocryphal Gospels: The Scholarly Version (8/25/2014)
- Suggested Donation for the Blog (8/23/2014)
- How I Decided to Publish the Apocryphal Gospels (8/22/2014)
- The Difficulties of Publishing a Translation (8/21/2014)
- My Third Scholarly and Trade Book Combination, Told Tangentally (8/20/2014)
- My Scholarly and Trade Books on Forgery (8/19/2014)
- Trade Books and Scholarly Books (8/17/2014)
- Freedom From Religion Foundation Lecture (8/16/2014)
- My Future Books (8/15/2014)
- Clarification! (8/13/2014)
- My Next Project (8/13/2014)
- My Apostolic Fathers Seminar/Syllabus (8/12/2014)
- Suggestions for Improving the Blog (Its Content) (8/11/2014)
- National Cathedral Lecture – Misquoting Jesus (8/10/2014)
- ANT: Methods of Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church (8/8/2014)
- Ideas for Raising More Money on the Blog (8/7/2014)
- ANT: More on Women in Early Christianity (8/6/2014)
- After the New Testament: Women in Early Christianity (8/5/2014)
- Follow-up Apologies for the Post on Dinesh D’Souza (8/3/2014)
- My Debate with Dinesh D’Souza on the Problem of Suffering (8/2/2014)
- About the Blog (8/1/2014)
- The Skeletal Remains of Yehohanan and Their Significance (7/31/2014)
- Josephus’s Clearest Claim about the Burial of Crucified Victims (7/29/2014)
- More on Josephus and Jewish Burial Practices (7/28/2014)
- Does Josephus Show that Jews Always Buried Their Dead? (7/27/2014)
- Hiatus: A New Teaching Company Course (7/26/2014)
- Josephus and the Burial of Jesus (7/24/2014)
- Another Anecdote about Being Consistently Critical (7/23/2014)
- Being Consistently Critical (in the good sense) (7/22/2014)
- Discovered Crucifixion Nails (7/21/2014)
- Pilate the Intransigent (7/19/2014)
- Did Pilate “Learn His Lesson”? (7/18/2014)
- Did Pontius Pilate Respect Jewish Sensitivities? (7/17/2014)
- Discrepancies That Pay Rich Dividends (7/16/2014)
- Why the Critical View of the Gospels Matters Theologically/Religiously (7/15/2014)
- Ancient Forerunners of Modern Gospel Critics (7/14/2014)