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Why I Don’t Like Public Debates
Over the years I’ve done a lot of public debates, and deep down I suppose I think they can do some good. Maybe not on a large scale, but at least for a few individuals in the audience who are open both to thinking about an important issue and to realizing that the view they’ve always held and simply assumed to be true may not be. If there are 300 people there and five of them are like that, OK, that’s great. Think Genesis 18:23-33. On the other hand, even though I get enthusiastic when I do debates, I really don’t enjoy them. I’m not sure I’ve ever enjoyed one. As some of you have heard me say, in virtually every debate I’m in, part way through I start writing notes to myself: “WHY are you doing this??”
November 30, 2025
Did Jesus Teach in Greek?
I had a number of very interesting conversations with friends and colleagues at the annual Society of Biblical Literature meeting this last week. There were about 8000 or so biblical scholars, most of them professors in one kind of institution or another, from around the world. It’s an amazing range of people, some of them quite stunning in their knowledge and insight about Jewish and Christian antiquity in areas I know little or very little about, as well as areas I’ve worked on for many years. On the other hand, there were lots of other people I ran into who explained to me research they were doing that I thought was, well, really problematic. I won’t name names. One friend of mine — a European scholar I’ve known for years — told me he was writing a book meant to show that Jesus taught in Greek. Now that’s a topic I have thought about and researched for a very long time. And I think he is completely wrong: Scholars are virtually unified that Jesus spoke […]
December 2, 2025
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December 26, 2025
Christ and the Gods: Check It Out!
Last year, I was interviewed for a documentary called Christ and the Gods. Recently, the team behind the film released the full version, so I thought it appropriate to share with you here. (In addition, they released my entire interview, as opposed to just the snippets they included in the longger version, also included here.) Enjoy! Projects like this never contain the full content for each expert interview. Instead, they splice them apart and typically only a very small portion makes it into the final cut. As such, the team behind the film also released my full standalone interview which you can watch here in its entirety:
January 17, 2026
My Last Lecture at UNC – The Most Significant Discovery in the History of Biblical Studies
This past December 7 was one of my so-far-favorite days of my mortal existence. As many of you know — and some of you observed! — that was the day I gave my final lecture at UNC, a “retirement lecture,” with family, friends, former grad students, fabulous members of the Blog, fantastically helpful team members from the Biblical studies academy, and (I’m running out of “f’s” here), and other fine-people from near and far in attendance. The lecture was recorded and I would like to share it with you here.
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Does God Care What We Eat? – Platinum Post by Doug Wadeson
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Do the Synoptics Present an Early Character of the Jesus Movement? –Platinum Post by Ryan Fleming
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March 6, 2026
Rethinking Faith Podcast Interview About Love Thy Stranger
I have been doing a lot of podcast interviews for the release of my book, Love Thy Stranger: How the Teachings of Jesus Transformed the Moral Conscience of the West. Most of these podcasts
April 4, 2026
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