Complete Post Archive in List Format
This archive page provides users access to all the blog posts since the very beginning, in descending order followed by the date of publication. Each page generates 500 posts as limited by the memory allocation. A simple pagination feature is found at the bottom of the list, to click through to each set of 500 posts each.
- Moving from the Faith (4/9/2013)
- A Third Forgery in the Name of Peter (4/8/2013)
- Another Forgery in the Name of Peter (4/7/2013)
- Forgery and the Gospel of Peter (4/5/2013)
- Making Things Interesting (4/4/2013)
- Our One-Year Anniversary! (4/3/2013)
- Fuller Account of Resurrection Discrepancies (4/2/2013)
- Resurrection Narratives in the Gospels (4/1/2013)
- More on Recent Manuscript Discoveries (3/30/2013)
- Progress on My Book (3/29/2013)
- Modern Visions of Jesus (3/28/2013)
- Visions of Mary (3/27/2013)
- Divine Wisdom (3/26/2013)
- Jesus as the Messiah (3/25/2013)
- The Son of Man as Divine (3/24/2013)
- The Divine Realm in Antiquity (3/22/2013)
- The Jewish King as God (3/20/2013)
- Who Is Really God? (3/19/2013)
- Gods Who (Apparently) Become Human (3/18/2013)
- Seriously off topic…. (3/17/2013)
- Jesus and My First Girlfriend (3/15/2013)
- Pastor Goranson, the Son of God, and I (3/14/2013)
- Anecdotes in Trade Books (3/13/2013)
- A New Phase for My Book (3/12/2013)
- A Privileged View of Suffering (3/11/2013)
- Maintaining Your Moral Compass – Morally Agnostic (3/9/2013)
- Biblical Views of Suffering (3/8/2013)
- “Human” Appearances of God in the Old Testament (3/5/2013)
- The Divine Pyramid (3/5/2013)
- Jesus as Divine in the Synoptics (3/3/2013)
- Early Christology: How I Have Changed My Mind (3/3/2013)
- The Greatest Controversies (3/2/2013)
- Futuristic Interpretations of the Book of Revelation (2/28/2013)
- A Hiatus (2/26/2013)
- What Kind of a Text is the King James Bible? (2/26/2013)
- John’s Logos and Jewish Wisdom (2/23/2013)
- The Christ-Poem in John (2/22/2013)
- Final Thoughts on the Philippians Christ-Poem (2/21/2013)
- An Ancient Accusation of Textual Tampering (2/20/2013)
- More on the Philippians Christ-Poem (2/19/2013)
- The Pre-pauline “Poem” in Philippians 2 (2/18/2013)
- Dead Sea Scrolls Scandal (2/16/2013)
- A Brief Break from Christology (2/15/2013)
- Incarnation Christology, Angels, and Paul (2/14/2013)
- An Important and Relevant Textual Variant in Luke 2 (2/13/2013)
- Pushing Back the Exaltation (2/13/2013)
- Exaltation Christology in the Speeches in Acts (2/11/2013)
- Gospel of the Savior (2/10/2013)
- Exaltation Christology in an Early Creed (2/8/2013)
- Exaltation Christology: Some Background (2/7/2013)
- The Earliest Christology (2/6/2013)
- How Jesus Became God: More Questions (2/5/2013)
- How Jesus Became God: My Change of Direction (2/5/2013)
- How Jesus Became God: The “Original” Idea, Part 3 (2/3/2013)
- How Jesus Became God: The “Original” Idea, Part 2 (2/1/2013)
- How Jesus Became God: The *Original* Idea (1/31/2013)
- During my Leave… (1/30/2013)
- Being on Leave (1/29/2013)
- Posts by Outsiders (1/28/2013)
- From Jeff Siker: A Response to Comments (1/27/2013)
- Jeff Siker Part 2: Why I am a Christian (and yet a New Testament scholar) (1/25/2013)
- Guest Post: Jeff Siker — Why I Am Still a Christian (and a NT Scholar) (1/24/2013)
- Something New on the Blog (1/24/2013)
- Why Jesus? (1/22/2013)
- Answer to My Objections on Demythologizing (1/21/2013)
- More Problems with Demythologizing (1/20/2013)
- Against Demythologizing the Ethics of Jesus (1/19/2013)
- In Favor of Demythologizing the Ethics of Jesus (1/18/2013)
- Liar Lunatic or Lord…..Is Jesus a Moral Teacher? (1/17/2013)
- Was Jesus a Great Moral Teacher? (1/16/2013)
- My Problem with Fundamentalism (1/15/2013)
- Textual Problems with the King James: The Trinity (1/14/2013)
- Heaven and Hell: When was Heaven and Hell Invented? (1/13/2013)
- More King James Curiosities (1/12/2013)
- Misleading Translations in the King James (1/9/2013)
- An Agnostic Teaching the Bible (1/9/2013)
- When Will The End Come? (1/7/2013)
- New Reference Tool (1/6/2013)
- Paul’s “Gospel” and Marcion (1/6/2013)
- The Mayan Calendar, Y2K, and the Letter of Barnabas (1/3/2013)
- How to Date Documents, including Barnabas (1/2/2013)
- Why Was Barnabas Attributed to Barnabas: Part 2 (1/1/2013)
- End of the Year Reflections on the Blog (12/31/2012)
- Why Was The Letter of Barnabas Attributed to Barnabas? (12/30/2012)
- Introductions to The Lost Gospels (12/29/2012)
- Responses to Reactions (on “Christmas Longings”) (12/28/2012)
- Christmas Longings (12/27/2012)
- Reflections on the Season (12/24/2012)
- Luke’s First Edition (12/23/2012)
- Luke’s Genealogy (12/22/2012)
- The Women in Matthew’s Genealogy (12/21/2012)
- Another Instance of Gematria (12/20/2012)
- Matthew’s Genealogy: The Number “Fourteen” (12/19/2012)
- Matthew’s Genealogy (12/18/2012)
- Genealogies of Matthew and Luke (12/17/2012)
- More Responses to My Newsweek Article (12/15/2012)
- Responses to my Newsweek Article (12/14/2012)
- The Infancy Narratives Compared (12/13/2012)
- Cover Stories on Jesus (12/11/2012)
- Matthew’s Version of the Birth of Jesus (12/8/2012)
- Luke’s Version of Jesus’ Birth (12/8/2012)
- The Christmas Story: Some Basic Background (12/6/2012)
- The Myth of the First Christmas (12/6/2012)
- An Agnostic Reflects on Christmas (12/5/2012)
- Feedback on Excursus (12/3/2012)
- Melito and arly Christian Anti-Judaism (12/2/2012)
- Apostles as Guarantors of the Truth (12/1/2012)
- Rene Salm at the SBL (2) (11/29/2012)
- Rene Salm at the Society of Biblical Literature Meeting (11/29/2012)
- The Pope’s New Book (11/27/2012)
- The Other Gospels and the Birth of Jesus (11/26/2012)
- Thanksgiving (11/26/2012)
- The SBL Meeting (11/21/2012)
- How Do I Read Books? (11/19/2012)
- Modern Interest in the Apostolic Fathers (11/18/2012)
- The Collection: Apostolic Fathers (11/17/2012)
- Thomas and the Other Gospels (11/16/2012)
- Lost Gospels That Are Still Lost 4: Q (11/15/2012)
- Lost Gospels That Are Still Lost 3: The Greater Questions of Mary (11/14/2012)
- Forgery and Counterforgery (11/14/2012)
- It Has Arrived! Forgery and Counterforgery in Early Christian Polemics. (11/13/2012)
- Lost Gospels That Are Still Lost 2: The Gospel of Basilides (11/12/2012)
- Lost Gospels That Are Still Lost 1 (11/12/2012)
- The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations (11/9/2012)
- Serendipity 3: The Apocryphal Gospels Volume (11/8/2012)
- A Stranger Problem with Lake’s Translation (11/7/2012)
- Problems with Lake’s Translation of the Apostolic Fathers (11/6/2012)
- A Common Criticism (of me!) (11/5/2012)
- Lake’s Apostolic Fathers (11/4/2012)
- The Art of Translation (11/3/2012)
- The Sense of an Ending (11/1/2012)
- Textual Problems in the Apostolic Fathers 2 (10/31/2012)
- Textual Problems in the Apostolic Fathers 1 (10/30/2012)
- The Loeb Apostolic Fathers: The Challenges (10/29/2012)
- The Apostolic Fathers: Serendipity Strikes (10/28/2012)
- Translating the Apostolic Fathers (10/27/2012)
- My Translation of the NT? (10/26/2012)
- Lincoln’s Watch and Eyewitnesses (10/25/2012)
- Secret Followers of Jesus? (10/23/2012)
- Pilate and Barabbas (10/22/2012)
- Decent Burials for Crucified Victims (10/21/2012)
- Crucified Bodies and Scavengers (10/19/2012)
- Women Who Did Not Doubt the Resurrection (10/18/2012)
- Disciples Who Doubt the Resurrection (10/17/2012)
- Why Was Jesus Killed? (10/16/2012)
- Anti-Judaism in the Gospels (10/16/2012)
- Books and Icebergs (10/14/2012)
- The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife: Another New Development (10/13/2012)
- Were the Disciples Martyred for Believing the Resurrection? (10/12/2012)
- Was Jesus Given a Decent Burial (By Joseph of Arimathea) (10/10/2012)
- Paul and the Resurrection of the “Flesh”? (10/9/2012)
- The Women and the Empty Tomb (10/8/2012)
- Christians Charged as Perverts and Criminals (10/7/2012)
- Paul’s View of Resurrection (10/6/2012)
- Gerd Lüdemann on the Resurrection of Jesus (10/5/2012)
- The Resurrection as a Key to Early Understandings of Jesus (10/3/2012)
- The Next Project: How Jesus Became God (10/2/2012)
- More on the Criterion of Independent Attestation (10/1/2012)
- Blog Preferences (10/1/2012)
- Jesus and the Historical Criteria (9/29/2012)
- Faith, History, and Isaiah 7 (9/27/2012)
- More on Faith and History (9/26/2012)
- The Bible as History and Theology (9/25/2012)
- Does Luke Combat a Docetic Christology? (9/24/2012)
- Peter, The Smoked Tuna, and the Flying Heretic (9/23/2012)
- Is the New Gospel Fragment a Modern Forgery? (9/21/2012)
- A Problem with My Textbook (9/20/2012)
- The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife (9/20/2012)
- BREAKING NEWS! A Significant New Non-Canonical Gospel Fragment (9/18/2012)
- How My Loss of Faith Affected My Scholarship (9/17/2012)
- On the Blog Itself (9/16/2012)
- Possibilities for the Afterlife (9/15/2012)
- The Need for Context (9/14/2012)
- Autobiographical. Metzger and My Loss of Faith (9/14/2012)
- Autobiographical: Back to Metzger and Me (9/12/2012)
- Why Did Scribes Add the Bloody Sweat? (9/12/2012)
- Jesus’ Death in Mark and Luke (9/10/2012)
- Jesus Going to His Death in Luke (9/9/2012)
- An Interlude: My Other CIA (9/7/2012)
- More on The Bloody Sweat (9/6/2012)
- Problems with the NRSV (Part 5) (9/5/2012)
- Problems with the NRSV (Part 4) (9/4/2012)
- Problems with the NRSV (Part 3) (9/3/2012)
- Problems with the NRSV Bible (Part 2) (9/3/2012)
- Problems with the NRSV (Part I) (9/1/2012)
- Carlo Martini, in memoriam (8/31/2012)
- Another Take on Jesus’ Existence (8/30/2012)
- Problems with Other Translations (8/29/2012)
- My Preferred Bible Translation (8/28/2012)
- Am I a Better Person as an Agnostic? (8/27/2012)
- Autobiographical. Metzger and Me: More on the NRSV (8/26/2012)
- Did Jesus Speak Greek? (8/24/2012)
- The NRSV Bible Translation Committee (Part 2) (8/23/2012)
- Autobiographical. Metzger and Me. The NRSV Bible Translation Committee (8/21/2012)
- My First Teaching Position (8/20/2012)
- Sad News: The Passing of Marvin Meyer (8/19/2012)
- Questions on Jesus’ Language and on the Crucifixion (8/17/2012)
- Autobiographical. Metzger and Me. The Dissertation Defense (8/16/2012)
- Bible Intro: Nearing the finish line (8/15/2012)
- Autobiographical. Metzger and Me: Finishing the Dissertation (8/14/2012)
- Autobiographical. Me and Metzger: More on the Dissertation (8/12/2012)
- A Forger Who Was Caught. The Case of Salvian, Part 2 (8/11/2012)
- A Christian Forger Caught in the Acts (8/9/2012)
- Autobiographical. Metzger and Me: The Dissertation (8/8/2012)
- Peter as Literate? Part 2 (8/7/2012)
- Peter as Literate? (8/6/2012)
- Ancient Secretaries (Part 2) (8/5/2012)
- Ancient Secretaries (Part 1) (8/3/2012)
- Always Looking for MORE!! (8/2/2012)
- Forgery. Another Deceived Deceiver (Part 2) (8/1/2012)
- Forgery. Another Deceived Deceiver (Part 1) (7/31/2012)
- Forgery and Deceived Deceivers (7/30/2012)
- So Much For THAT Idea…. (7/29/2012)
- Silvanus as Peter’s Secretary? (7/28/2012)
- Autobiographical. Metzger and Me: My PhD Exams (7/26/2012)
- Resurrection and Resuscitation (7/25/2012)
- Paul in Acts: Part 3 (7/24/2012)
- Accessing the Squirrel (7/24/2012)
- Autobiographical. Metzger and Me: The Squirrel Story, Part 2 (7/23/2012)
- Paul in Acts: Part 2 (7/22/2012)
- Autobiographical. Metzger and Me: The Squirrel Story (7/21/2012)
- Paul the Persecutor and the Historical Jesus (7/20/2012)
- Autobiographical. Metzger and Me: Metzger’s Faith (7/19/2012)
- Some Questions on the Greek (7/18/2012)
- Reflections on Books (7/16/2012)
- Autobiographical. Metzger and Me: Serving as his Teaching Assistant (7/15/2012)
- Wisdom as God’s Consort in the Beginning (7/14/2012)
- Possibly of Some Interest (7/13/2012)
- Autobiographical. Metzger and Me: My Dissertation Proposal (7/13/2012)
- A Virgin Birth? The Importance of Context (7/12/2012)
- Autobiographical: Metzger and Me. The Seminar on the Canon (7/11/2012)
- The Suffering Servant of Isaiah (7/10/2012)
- Autobiographical. Metzger and Me: Beginning the PhD Program (7/10/2012)
- Autobiographical: Metzger and Me. My First Work on the Text (7/8/2012)
- The Sons of God and the Daughters of Men (7/7/2012)
- Introduction to the Bible: Part 1 (7/6/2012)
- Creation in 4004 BCE? (7/5/2012)
- Income from Books (7/4/2012)
- My Colleague’s Archaeological Find! (7/4/2012)
- My Bible Introduction (7/2/2012)
- My Next Book (6/30/2012)
- Q & A with Ben Witherington: Part 10 (and last!) (6/29/2012)
- Q & A with Ben Witherington: Part 10 (the last!) (6/29/2012)
- Helping Charity and Improving My Blog (6/28/2012)
- Q & A with Ben Witherington: Part 9 (6/27/2012)
- Would We Recognize an Original Manuscript? (6/26/2012)
- Outta here (for a couple of days) (6/25/2012)
- The Hebrew Bible and Its Sources (6/25/2012)
- Q & A with Ben Witherington: Part 8 (6/24/2012)
- Why Did “Orthodox” Christianity Win: Part 2 (6/23/2012)
- Why Did “Orthodox” Christianity Win? (6/22/2012)
- Q & A with Ben Witherington: Part 7 (6/21/2012)
- The Growth of Early Christianity: A Clarification (6/20/2012)
- Why Did Christianity Succeed? (6/19/2012)
- Q & A with Ben Witherington: Part 6 (6/18/2012)
- Some Reading Suggestions on the New Testament (6/17/2012)
- Q & A with Ben Witherington: Part 5 (6/16/2012)
- My Apocrypha Seminar at the National Humanities Center: Part 2 (6/14/2012)
- Q & A with Ben Witherington: Part 4 (6/13/2012)
- Personal Reflections: My Apocrypha Seminar at the National Humanities Center (6/12/2012)
- Which Charities Does The Blog Support? (6/12/2012)
- Q & A with Ben Witherington: Part 3 (6/11/2012)
- Should We Change the Canon of Scripture? (6/10/2012)
- Q & A with Ben Witherington: Part 2 (6/8/2012)
- Was Jesus an Essene? (6/7/2012)
- Q&A With Ben Witherington: Part 1 (6/6/2012)
- Which Bible Translation Do I Prefer? (6/5/2012)
- The Work of the Professional Scholar 10: Editorial Work (Books) (6/4/2012)
- My Views on Suffering Are Not Held by Those Who Suffer (6/3/2012)
- Am I an Agnostic or an Atheist? (6/2/2012)
- Religion in the News: Dating Jesus’ Death by the Earthquake (5/31/2012)
- The Life of a Professional Scholar 9: Editorial Work, Journals (2) (5/30/2012)
- At the Beach (3): Thinking Yet More of Books (5/29/2012)
- Question: Would I Be Personally Devastated if the Mythicists Were Right? (5/28/2012)
- At the Beach (2): Reflecting on Books (5/27/2012)
- Personal Reflections: At the Beach (5/26/2012)
- Personal Reflections Page (5/25/2012)
- The Life of a Professional Scholar 8: Editorial Work, Journals (1) (5/25/2012)
- Question on How We Got the Canon of the New Testament (5/24/2012)
- Undergraduate Courses (2): Introduction to the New Testament (Part 2) (5/22/2012)
- Did the Gospels Originally Contain Miracle Stories? (5/21/2012)
- Undergraduate Courses (1): Introduction to the New Testament (Part 1) (5/20/2012)
- Why Did Jesus Go To Jerusalem? (5/18/2012)
- The Work of a Professional Scholar 7: Publishing in Academic Journals (5/16/2012)
- Question on Mistakes in Ancient Sources (5/15/2012)
- Question about Eyewitnesses and the Gospels (5/14/2012)
- The Work of a Professional Scholar 6: Getting the PhD (5/13/2012)
- Did Jesus Exist? The Birth of a Divine Man (5/11/2012)
- The Work of a Professional Scholar 5: Graduate Seminars (5/9/2012)
- Dates of the Gospels (5/7/2012)
- Did Jesus Exist as Part One (5/5/2012)
- The Work of a Professional Scholar 4: Undergraduate Courses (5/5/2012)
- The Work of a Professional Scholar 3: Undergraduate Theses (5/3/2012)
- The Work of a Professional Scholar 2: Supervising PhD Dissertations (5/3/2012)
- The Work of the Professional Scholar 1: Introduction (5/3/2012)
- A Recent Interview (5/2/2012)
- The Irony of our Earliest Manuscripts (5/2/2012)
- For the “Original” Text: What Kinds of Manuscripts Would We Need? (5/1/2012)
- The Text of the New Testament: Are the Textual Traditions of Other Ancient Works Relevant? (4/30/2012)
- A Final (for now) Post on the Resurrection (4/29/2012)
- More on the Resurrection (4/28/2012)
- Another Question on the Resurrection (4/28/2012)
- Response to Carrier (4/24/2012)
- What Do Tectonic Plates Have To Do With Suffering? (4/23/2012)
- Acharya S, Richard Carrier, and a Cocky Peter (Or: “A Cock and Bull Story”) (4/22/2012)
- Concerns for the Blog (4/22/2012)
- Richard Carrier on The Huffington Post Article (1) (4/21/2012)
- Do My Research Assistants Do All My Work For Me? (4/20/2012)
- What Charities Does The Blog Support? (4/20/2012)
- First-Century Copy of Mark? – Part 1 (4/6/2012)
- Q & A – Historical Events in Jesus Tradition (4/5/2012)
- Latest HarperOne Book: Did Jesus Exist? (4/4/2012)
- Is Suffering All About Us? (4/4/2012)
- Ben Witherington Critique (4/3/2012)