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January 2022

January 12, 2022

The Contradictory Dates for the Birth of Jesus

The Gospels of Matthew and Luke tell stories about Jesus' birth and infancy with incompatible...

March 2021

March 27, 2021

Explaining Fifty Ways to Forge a Gospel

I promised to return to the lyrics of the parody song "Fifty Ways to...

February 2020

February 19, 2020

ReligionProf Podcast with Ruth Hayhoe about Suzanne McCarthy, Transcripted

I am extremely grateful to Kurk Gayle for taking the time to transcribe the podcast...

March 2019

March 15, 2019

Archaeology and Jesus

Bart Ehrman wrote something recently that conveys something crucial, and does so clearly and succinctly:...

June 2018

June 10, 2018

The Fragment Formerly Known as “First Century Mark”

I have not been directly involved with the fragment that had been touted some years...

October 2017

October 12, 2017

Mythicists Shock Bart Ehrman, Set Off Jonathan Tweet

Jonathan Tweet has shared thoughts about his recent debate with Richard Carrier. Here is an...

February 2017

February 03, 2017

Review of Bart Ehrman, Jesus Before the Gospels

My review of Bart Ehrman's recent book, Jesus Before the Gospels, has appeared in Review of...

October 2016

October 23, 2016

Written Thoughts on the Ehrman-Price Debate

I shared many of my thoughts about the Ehrman-Price debate verbally in the conversation afterwards....

October 21, 2016

Discussing the Ehrman-Price Debate

Here's the recording of the conversation that James Crossley, Daniel Gullotta, David Fitzgerald and myself...

October 12, 2016

Early High Subordinationist Christology around the Blogosphere

Let me start this round-up of recent blogging about Christology with a quote from a...

August 2016

August 12, 2016

Videos of Bart Ehrman in Church

Biblical Studies Online drew attention to these videos of Bart Ehrman going to church...to talk about...

February 2016

February 13, 2016

How Did Jesus Become God? Video of the Bart Ehrman and Michael Bird Debate

Deane Galbraith shared the above video of the recent debate between Bart Ehrman and Michael...

February 05, 2016

Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus

I am delighted to have the opportunity to participate in the Patheos Book Club about...

January 2016

January 18, 2016

More on Mark’s Christology

Dustin Smith has offered a response to Mike Bird's recent post about Mark's Christology. We...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

How Carrier Responds to Critics (Supercut)

A blog reader sent me a compilation of Richard Carrier's treatment of reviews of his...

November 2015

November 27, 2015

Blogging the #AARSBL15 Blogger Session

Rick Brannan and Chris Brady both shared their papers from this year's Blogger and Online...

November 19, 2015

50 Ways to Forge a Gospel

As the song lyrics indicate, it genuinely was at the 2015 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

Bart Ehrman’s Keynote Address at #YCAS2015

After a delightful dinner, we returned to the main conference venue. Tony Burke introduced Ehrman,...

September 25, 2015

Imitation, Forgery, and Education #YCAS2015

The discussion of forgery led to a discussion on the way to lunch about the...

September 18, 2015

YCAS Gospel of Jesus’ Wife Panel

Tony Burke has shared details about the presenters and papers that will be part of...

September 01, 2015

How To Get The Least Possible Out Of University Religion Classes

Michael Kruger has made a video which describes his own experience of having taken classes with Bart...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Pay To Hear Bart Ehrman and Robert Price Debate

Daniel Gulotta drew to my attention that a Kickstarter campaign has been started to raise...

June 02, 2015

Ehrman Not Anti-Christian

It is one of the major problems with fundamentalism that it recognizes no other form of...

February 2015

February 21, 2015

$3,000 per word?

Bart Ehrman recently blogged about the fact that he typically receives at least $5,000 for...

January 2015

January 13, 2015

Bart Ehrman on Jesus Mythicism

Mike Bird shared this video of Bart Ehrman giving a nice succinct response to a...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

When Bart Ehrman and Mike Bird Agree

Two items related to the existence of a historical Jesus came to my attention today....

December 08, 2014

Pretend to be Paul the Time Traveler Day

A commenter drew my attention to the video above, in which apologists for Pauline authorship...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

Jesus’ Piety

One text which received a significant amount of discussion in the Bart Ehrman book review...

November 12, 2014

If You Attend Just One Session at SBL #sblaar #aarsbl14 #sblaar14

Mike Bird has this recommendation to offer for a session that he and I are...

October 2014

October 23, 2014

The Life of Brian and the Apocalyptic Jesus

Bart Ehrman shared the above video of a talk that he gave about Jesus and...

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