Loading...Dear Bart Ehrman Blog Members,
We have been having technical problems on the blog for the past couple of days. A real pain in the wazoo. Some wacko in St. Petersburg Russia (really!) managed to muck things up, so that my past two posts (erg…) did not appear, all the comments you made since Jan. 30 *disappeared*, and I was blocked from accessing the blog myself. That’s all that it was – nothing else. But a big flippin’ pain.
Through his Herculean efforts, Steven has gotten it all back in shape, EXCEPT that (1) I have to repost my posts that I already posted that got trashed (I’ll do that this morning) AND, more important for you, (2) any comments that you made since Jan. 30 have been dissolved into the stratosphere and no longer exist. So I don’t know what you said in your comments and cannot (re-)post them or reply to them.
So sorry about that. If you remember what your comments were, go ahead and re-comment. If you don’t, well, make something up.
Many thanks to Steven for putting in the hours to rectify the situation. I literally could not do the blog without him, and so we are all in his debt.
If you have any questions or concerns, let us know! Otherwise, onwards and upwards!
- Bart
YEH, Steven!!!
Your blog is the first thing I check each morning. I was unaware of the problem, so my thanks to Steve also.
“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears…in…rain.”
Bart, backup, backup, backup. If there is not a backup service on your server, you need a new host. Concerning free web hosts: You get what you pay for.
Yup! Thank God for back-ups! And Steven for making them.
I’ve enjoyed using managed WordPress hosting for one of my best clients by http://www.page.ly Everything backed up daily and the site is faster since it’s all using an Amazon content delivery network. There’s no profit in it for me in mentioning them, but I like that all they do is WordPress, a CMS in constant need of updating and security. They coined the term Managed WordPress Hosting, being the first big player in it.
Maybe they really thought they were hacking the CIA
HA!!! That’s hilarious!
I remember that after reading your Q and As, I’d said the thing that still puzzles me is how Jesus could have acquired a reputation as a “miracle worker” while he was alive. (Given that until the last week of his life, his “ministry” had been confined to a few small villages where people knew each other, and false “miracle” claims could easily have been disproved.)
Yes, it’s a good question. The reality is that there always have been and always will be people who are rumored to be able to do miracles — many of them in our own day! (My grandmother was a huge believer in Oral Roberts’s abilities, e.g.)
I’m glad to hear you youself aren’t having any technical problems! I was afraid you might’ve fallen ill. Be well. Looking forward to more posts.
Well, I was sick to my stomach when I realized we’d been hacked!! 🙂
Hello Dr. Ehrman:
Hang in there…in time, it will work out.
You wrote: “Some wacko in St. Petersburg Russia (really!) managed to muck things up,” Perhaps this event is a hint that you should write an essay how “some wacko named St. Pete [Peter] managed to muck things up” in the Resurrection narratives… Easter is after all, approaching…
Thank you for the update and previous essays. Your blog is appreciated and valued.
Michael Alter
Medal of Honor to Steven!!! Content without access would deprive us all! Thank you Steven.
As someone who appreciates this site very much this seems the time to thank Steven for all the work and effort that goes into maintaining it.
Thanks for the hard work, Steven!
You have my sympathy, Bart. A server in Romania attempted to encrypt the hard drive of my computer at work and spread to other computers on the network. Fortunately, the network security disconnected me from the network and our excellent IT people took my computer and did their magic on it and everything is back to normal.
We can now have a digression as to the motivation of the hacker. What on earth does someone get out of vandalism?
I”ve been racking my brain about the same thing? Is it just an act of spiteful cruelty?
Well now he can tell his mates he just hacked into the American CIA computer system! He probably thinks he deleted some important documents about national security. Seriously, a hacker will hack into whatever they can, just because they can. No other reason.
Steven tells me there are complicated ways to make money off of it.
Arrrrggg.. Such a drag. I can’t imagine what it is that motivates people to do such things.
Egads! What a pain in the …
My main previous comment was that some critics are going to say that none of the anthropology and memory research is relevant since God inspired the writing of the Gospels and thus the Gospels were not affected by the usual factors that influence the oral transmission process.
You should be excited about the upcoming book. It is a terrific book.
Thanks to Steven. He has helped me with a “log in” problem in the past.
Keep plugging away!
Yup, there’s no arguing with miracle!
Curiouser and curiouser. St Petersburg? Is Russia as the Third Rome philosophy re-emerging? No, I am not serious but it did come to mind. I wonder if other NT blogs have been similarly targeted. Thanks Steven! What a mess to deal with.
This one’s for David Lambert:
What do you make of these lines from Didache 10:6 —
May grace come, and may this world pass away. Hosanna to the God of David! If anyone is holy let him come; if anyone is not, let him repent. Maranatha. Amen.
Could the call for a person’s repentance — that is, a “turning” as in the Hebrew “shuv” — indicate the need for a spiritual re-direction?
Repentance in this instance does not seem to be an atonement for sins or for offenses against others.
The repenting advocated by this verse seems to result in improved holiness.
What do you think about the Didache’s use of the word “repent”?
I’ve forwarded the queries to David.
I question that I raised in response to a comment in you rblog was: What, if any faith or factual evidence is there for believers or others to think that the biblical canon is divinely inspired other than statements within the documents themselves?
People who believe in their inspiration might say they are self-authenticating. They speak today because God speaks through them.
Behind every successful blogger stands a good it man (or woman)
I had previously posted a question about the Trinity. Don’t things like the way Jesus constructs The Lord’s Prayer, the cry of dereliction from the cross, and the prayer in the garden of Gethsemane seem to suggest Jesus is NOT one and the same with the Father and the Holy Spirit, but is in fact just a regular human being?
Ah, they certainly suggest that to people who don’t subscribe to the Trinity! But not to those who do!
It seems to me that if, for instance, Jesus disagrees with God and petitions God in the prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, then Jesus is not identical with God.
Must have been because I turned 70 on the 30th.