Complete Post Archive in List Format

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• 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)
• Why Are You Trashing the Gospels? (7/13/2014)
• Did Roman Laws Require Decent Burials? (7/11/2014)
• Did Roman Authorities Show Clemency? (7/10/2014)
• Did Romans Allow Decent Burials? (7/8/2014)
• Jesus Burial: My Personal Stake in the Question (7/6/2014)
• A Hiatus in the Thread: Editorial Duties! (7/5/2014)
• Argument Against Jesus’ Burial in HJBG, Part 2 (7/3/2014)
• Argument Against Jesus’ Burial in HJBG, Part 1 (7/2/2014)
• New Thread on the Burial of Jesus (7/1/2014)
• Violent Opposition to the Romans in the Days of Jesus (or Brian)? (6/30/2014)
• Brian and the Apocalyptic Jesus Part 3 (6/29/2014)
• Brian and the Apocalyptic Jesus Part 2 (6/28/2014)
• Brian and the Apocalyptic Jesus Part 1 (6/27/2014)
• Day Two of Jesus and Brian (6/25/2014)
• Day One of Jesus and Brian (6/24/2014)
• The Life of Brian Conference (6/23/2014)
• Radio Debate with Pete Williams on Textual Variants (6/22/2014)
• Why Textual Variants Matter for the Rest of Us (6/21/2014)
• Fundamentalists and the Variants in our Manuscripts (6/20/2014)
• Who Cares??? Do the Variants in the Manuscripts Matter for Anything? (6/19/2014)
• Hypothetical Problems with Copies of Philippians (6/17/2014)
• Dictation of Letters: More Complications for Knowing an “Original” Text (6/16/2014)
• Complications with Finding an “Original” Text (6/14/2014)
• What Would Be the “Original” Text of Philippians? (6/13/2014)
• Are There Two Letters to the Philippians? (6/11/2014)
• Do We Have the Original Text of Philippians? (6/10/2014)
• My Debate on Suffering with Philosopher Richard Swinburne (6/8/2014)
• Christ as an Angel in Paul (6/7/2014)
• Why I (Actually) Discuss Hallucinations (6/6/2014)
• More Misreadings of How Jesus Became God (6/5/2014)
• The Son of Man and Jesus (6/4/2014)
• Jesus and the Life of Brian Conference (6/3/2014)
• Larry Hurtado’s Critique of How Jesus Became God (6/2/2014)
• The Religion of a Sixteen-Year-Old (6/1/2014)
• Thomasine “Gnostics” and Others (5/30/2014)
• The Valentinian Gnostics (5/29/2014)
• The Sethian Gnostics (5/28/2014)
• New Discussion of Gnosticism (5/27/2014)
• The Next Step: Redaction Criticism (5/26/2014)
• More on Jesus’ Wife! (5/24/2014)
• Form Critics and Oral Tradition (5/23/2014)
• More Background on Oral Traditions (5/22/2014)
• Background to the Interest in Oral Traditions (5/21/2014)
• My Other Next Book (5/20/2014)
• My Next Books (5/19/2014)
• Interview for The Skeptic Fence Show (5/17/2014)
• Other Options for Paul and Jesus (5/16/2014)
• Why Doesn’t Paul Say More About Jesus? (5/14/2014)
• More on Jesus’ Teachings in Paul (5/13/2014)
• Paul’s References to Jesus’ Teachings (5/12/2014)
• An Interview about My Agnosticism (5/10/2014)
• More on Paul’s Knowledge of Jesus’ Life (5/9/2014)
• What Did Paul Know About the Historical Jesus? (5/8/2014)
• Jesus and Paul Compared and Contrasted (5/7/2014)
• Paul and Jesus (5/6/2014)
• The Message of Jesus (5/5/2014)
• Response to the Response: How God Became Jesus (5/2/2014)
• Other Models of Salvation in Paul (5/1/2014)
• Comparison of Paul’s Two Principal Models of Salvation (4/30/2014)
• Paul’s “Participationist” Model of Salvation (4/29/2014)
• Paul’s “Judicial” Model of Salvation (4/28/2014)
• Video: Bart Ehrman vs. James White Debate (4/27/2014)
• Paul’s Gospel Message (4/25/2014)
• Paul’s Importance in Early Christianity? (4/24/2014)
• Did Paul Invent the Resurrection? (4/23/2014)
• My Interview on Fresh Air (4/22/2014)
• Attacks from the Other Side: An Ill-Tempered Richard Carrier (4/21/2014)
• A Milestone for the Blog (4/20/2014)
• More on the Very Reverend Robert Barron (4/18/2014)
• Critique of the Very Reverend Robert Barron (4/17/2014)
• Interview on Trinities.org on How Jesus Became God Part 2 (4/16/2014)
• Modern Appearances of Jesus (4/15/2014)
• Did Disciples Have Visions of Jesus? (4/14/2014)
• Jesus as God in the Synoptics (4/13/2014)
• Interview with Trinities.org on How Jesus Became God (4/11/2014)
• Christ as an Angel in Paul (4/10/2014)
• The Disciples who Doubted the Resurrection (4/9/2014)
• Why I’m Obsessed with Jesus (4/8/2014)
• Media: How Jesus became God – Ehrman vs Gathercole Pt 2 (4/7/2014)
• Fresh Air with Terry Gross and the Dish Book Club with Andrew Sullivan (4/6/2014)
• Women at the Tomb (4/4/2014)
• The God Augustus (4/3/2014)
• Jesus as the Adopted Son of God (4/2/2014)
• Why It Matters (4/1/2014)
• Radio Debate on How Jesus became God: Part 1 (3/31/2014)
• Article in the Huffington Post (3/30/2014)
• Scholars and Popular Audiences (3/28/2014)
• Why Sell Books? (3/27/2014)
• My First Radio Interview on How Jesus Became God (3/25/2014)
• How Books Are Sold (3/24/2014)
• How Jesus Became God!! (3/23/2014)
• John from a Socio-Historical Perspective (3/22/2014)
• How Jesus Became God (3/22/2014)
• The Socio-Historical Method (3/21/2014)
• Sources of the Fourth Gospel (3/19/2014)
• More on John from a Redactional Perspective (3/18/2014)
• John from a Redactional Perspective (3/17/2014)
• Keep on Keepin’ On? (3/14/2014)
• More on John from a Comparative Perspective (3/13/2014)
• The Gospel of John from a Comparative Perspective (3/12/2014)
• The Gospel of John from a Thematic Perspective (3/11/2014)
• More Literary-Historical Perspectives on John (3/9/2014)
• The Gospel of John from a Literary-Historical Perspective (3/8/2014)
• Did Jesus Exist? Video Presentation (3/6/2014)
• Jesus’ Birth: Some Comparisons (3/5/2014)
• The Comparative Method and Luke (3/3/2014)
• The Comparative Method (3/3/2014)
• More on the Response Book (3/1/2014)
• Books and Response Books (2/27/2014)
• Video: Does It Matter If Jesus Was Married? (2/25/2014)
• The Literary-Historical Method and History (2/25/2014)
• Jesus’ Death and Resurrection in Mark (2/24/2014)
• Mark’s Suffering Son of God (2/21/2014)
• Snake-Handling and the Gospel of Mark (2/20/2014)
• More on Mark (2/19/2014)
• More on the Beginning of Mark’s Gospel (2/18/2014)
• The Beginning of Mark’s Gospel/Biography (2/17/2014)
• The Gospels as Biographies (2/17/2014)
• How To Study the Gospels (2/15/2014)
• Differences in the Gospels and Redaction Criticism (2/14/2014)
• Similarities and Differences: The Synoptic Problem (2/11/2014)
• Discrepancies in the Resurrection Narratives (2/10/2014)
• Was Jesus Inserted Into Paul’s Letters? (2/9/2014)
• Abraham and Jesus? (2/8/2014)
• More on Camels and Genesis (2/6/2014)
• Camels and the Book of Genesis (2/6/2014)
• Jesus Kissing Mary Magdalene (2/4/2014)
• Video: Illuminated Manuscripts and Legends about Jesus (2/3/2014)
• Mary Magdalene as a Prostitute? (2/2/2014)
• Mary Magdalene in Various Guises (1/31/2014)
• Jesus and Sexuality (1/30/2014)
• A Married Jesus and Celibate Priests (1/29/2014)
• Jesus and Marriage: An Actual Argument! (1/27/2014)
• Jesus and Mary Magdalene (1/26/2014)
• Was Jesus Married? (1/24/2014)
• Historical Certainty and Jesus (1/24/2014)
• Ramtha Again: The Question-Answer Session (1/22/2014)
• The Jesus Seminar and John the Baptist (1/21/2014)
• Need for Testimonies! (1/20/2014)
• Trying Again: More on Ramtha (1/19/2014)
• More on Ramtha (1/18/2014)
• Jesus Writes A Letter! (1/17/2014)
• Video: The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot Part 1 (1/16/2014)
• The New and Improved After the New Testament (1/15/2014)
• Final Bit of The Introduction to After the New Testament (1/14/2014)
• More on After the New Testament (1/13/2014)
• My New Edition of After the New Testament (1/13/2014)
• Followup on the NT Quiz (1/11/2014)
• My New Testament Pop Quiz (1/9/2014)
• My New Testament Syllabus (1/9/2014)
• Final Loose Threads on the Zealot Hypothesis (1/8/2014)
• Jesus’ Crucifixion as King of the Jews (1/6/2014)
• Jesus and the Temple (1/3/2014)
• Looking Ahead to 2014 on the Blog (1/2/2014)
• End of the Year Blog Reflection (1/1/2014)
• More Evidence that Jesus was an Apocalypticist (12/31/2013)
• The Later De-apocalypticizing of Jesus (12/29/2013)
• Back to Aslan’s Thesis. An Alternative View: Jesus the Apocalypticist (12/29/2013)
• Free Memberships All Claimed (12/29/2013)
• Still a Few Free Memberships for those Who Need Them (12/27/2013)
• 2009 Debate With Mike Licona: Can Historians Prove the Resurrection of Jesus? (12/26/2013)
• Free Memberships for those Who Need Them (12/24/2013)
• Response to My Holiday Request (12/24/2013)
• Fundamental Problems with Aslan’s Thesis (12/23/2013)
• Aslan’s Key Chapter (12/22/2013)
• Aslan Zealot: A Deeper Evaluation of the Thesis Itself (12/21/2013)
• A Holiday Blog Idea (12/20/2013)
• Mistakes about the New Testament in Aslan’s Zealot (12/19/2013)
• Free Memberships Already Taken (12/18/2013)
• A Limited Number of Free Memberships Available (12/18/2013)
• More Historical Mistakes in Aslan’s Zealot (12/17/2013)
• Aslan’s Zealot: Historical Mistakes (12/15/2013)
• Aslan’s Zealot: Some Positive Comments (12/14/2013)
• About the Blog and Two Clarifications about Reza Aslan’s Zealot (12/13/2013)
• Aslan’s Zealot: To Start With… (12/13/2013)
• My New Teaching Company Course (12/12/2013)
• Jesus Final Exam (12/10/2013)
• Infancy Gospel of Thomas: The Technical vs. the Interesting (12/9/2013)
• Taking Jesus the Wunderkind Seriously (12/8/2013)
• Jesus: L’enfant terrible? (12/6/2013)
• Video: Ehrman & Evans 2012 Debate – Part 2 (12/5/2013)
• Jesus the Magician (12/5/2013)
• The Giving Season (12/4/2013)
• A Third View of Jesus’ Body at the Resurrection (12/1/2013)
• A Gnostic View of Jesus’ Resurrection (11/30/2013)
• Paul and the Resurrection of a Spiritual Body (11/29/2013)
• Is History Possible? (11/27/2013)
• Papers at the SBL (11/26/2013)
• SBL and ALL those Books (11/24/2013)
• The Gospel of Peter in a Papyrus Fragment? (11/23/2013)
• My SBL Conference (11/22/2013)
• Amusing Fund Raising and the Blog (11/21/2013)
• Errant Texts and Historians (11/20/2013)
• Jesus and Brian!!! (11/20/2013)
• Is The NT Portrayal of Jesus Accurate? Debate With Craig Evans (11/17/2013)
• Problem on the Site (11/17/2013)
• Why Historians Can Talk “About” the Resurrection (11/15/2013)
• Historians and the Problem of Miracle (11/15/2013)
• History is Not the Past (11/13/2013)
• Multiple Attestation for Jesus (11/12/2013)
• Who Can Still Be A Christian? (11/10/2013)
• Video: Forgery in the New Testament (11/8/2013)
• Carrier, Bayes Theorem, and Jesus’ Existence (11/7/2013)
• New Hermeneia Manuscript (11/6/2013)
• Fortune Telling with Manuscripts (11/5/2013)
• Video: Misquoting Jesus (11/3/2013)
• Writers Who Contradict Themselves (11/1/2013)
• Discrepancies *Inside* the Fourth Gospel (10/31/2013)
• Was Paul Contemplating Suicide? (10/30/2013)
• A Rather Serious Mistake (10/29/2013)
• Why Are There Contradictions in the New Testament? (10/27/2013)
• Upcoming Lectures at the Smithsonian (10/25/2013)
• Jesus’ Brother and the Mythicists (Part 2) (10/24/2013)
• Brothers of Jesus and the Mythicists (10/23/2013)
• Jesus’ Brothers?!? And the Proto-Gospel of James (10/22/2013)
• When Time Stood Still (10/20/2013)
• The Gospel according to Mel (10/18/2013)
• Jesus’ Passion in the Movies (10/17/2013)
• My Jesus Class and … Destroying Christianity? (10/16/2013)
• Podcast on My New Course (10/15/2013)
• Jesus Books (10/14/2013)
• Some Blog Self-Scrutiny (10/13/2013)
• Constantine and Christianity (10/11/2013)
• More Conspiracy Nonsense (10/10/2013)
• Widespread Misconceptions about the Council of Nicea (10/9/2013)
• My New Course for the Great Courses (10/8/2013)
• Colbert on his Hero O’Reilly (10/7/2013)
• Jesus as a First-Century Tea-Partier (10/6/2013)
• Follow That Star!! (10/5/2013)
• Riled by O’Reilly (10/4/2013)
• Killing Jesus is Killing Me…. (10/3/2013)
• Bill O’Reilly’s Jesus (10/2/2013)
• Jesus Position Papers (10/1/2013)
• You Won’t Find *This* in the New Testament! (9/29/2013)
• Jesus at the Movies: Infancy Narratives (9/27/2013)
• But Did It Really Happen? (9/26/2013)
• Early Gospels: A Messier Scenario (9/25/2013)
• The Messy World of Second Century Gospels (9/24/2013)
• Jesus’ Anger in Mark 1:41 (9/23/2013)
• Jesus Getting Angry (9/21/2013)
• Speaking of Lepers (9/20/2013)
• An Unknown Gospel (9/19/2013)
• The Lowdown on Why I Study the Bible (9/18/2013)
• Why Would Someone Like Me Study the Bible?? (9/17/2013)
• My Bible Introduction! (9/16/2013)
• Apologies, Questions, and Excuses (9/15/2013)
• The Ebionites and their Gospel (9/13/2013)
• Locusts or Pancakes? (9/12/2013)
• Harmonizing the Gospels (9/11/2013)
• Fun with the Jewish Christian Gospels (9/10/2013)
• My PhD Seminar: Early Christian Apocrypha (9/8/2013)
• Summing Up: Was Luke Luke? (9/6/2013)
• The Accuracy of Acts: Part 2 (9/5/2013)
• The Historical Accuracy of Acts (9/4/2013)
• Who Wrote Luke and Acts? (9/3/2013)
• Not for the Faint of Heart (Authorship of Colossians) (9/2/2013)
• Problems with Luke as the Author of Luke (9/1/2013)
• Why Luke is Thought To Have Written Luke (8/31/2013)
• The Final Part of My First-Day Quiz (8/30/2013)
• More on My Quiz (8/28/2013)
• Reza Aslan’s View of Jesus (8/27/2013)
• My Pop Quiz For First-Year Students (8/26/2013)
• Reza Aslan on Jesus (8/25/2013)
• Back To School! My Jesus Syllabus (8/24/2013)
• Who Cares? (8/23/2013)
• Conclusions Drawn from My Study of Didymus (8/22/2013)
• Problems with the Textual Evidence from Didymus (8/21/2013)
• Didymus the Blind and Patristic Evidence (8/19/2013)
• Problems with Patristic Evidence (8/18/2013)
• Did Luke Originally Have Chapters 1-2? (8/15/2013)
• A Final Post (!) on Luke 3:22 (8/14/2013)
• Luke 3:22 — More on What Luke Would Have Written (8/13/2013)
• Luke 3:22 — What Luke Himself Would Have Written (8/12/2013)
• More Arguments over Luke 3:22 (8/11/2013)
• Church Fathers and the Voice at Jesus’ Baptism (8/10/2013)
• Patristic Evidence: Why Time and Place Matter (8/9/2013)
• Doing a TV Interview (8/7/2013)
• Church Fathers Who Quote the New Testament (8/6/2013)
• Early Doubts about the Pastorals (8/5/2013)
• A Plea for My Blog (8/4/2013)
• How Women Came to Be Silenced (8/2/2013)
• Male Domination in Antiquity (8/1/2013)
• The Non-Pauline Oppression of Women (7/31/2013)
• Paul, the Pastorals, and Women (7/30/2013)
• Paul’s View of Women in the Church (7/29/2013)
• Jesus’ Association with Women (7/28/2013)
• Women in the Ministry of Jesus (7/27/2013)
• Women in the Churches of Paul (7/26/2013)
• Suffering and My Blog (7/25/2013)
• Evaluation of Job’s View of Suffering (7/23/2013)
• Suffering in the Poetic Section of Job (7/22/2013)
• Key Passages in Job’s Back and Forth (7/21/2013)
• The Poetic Section of Job (7/20/2013)
• Evaluation of Job’s Short Story (7/19/2013)
• The Prose Story of Job (7/17/2013)
• The Two Books of Job (7/16/2013)
• Personal Response to Suffering? (7/15/2013)