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June 2013

June 19, 2013

What If Jesus Was Real?

"What if Jesus was Real?" is the title of Joel Watts' new article in the...

June 11, 2013

Who Was Jesus to George Caird in 1977?

Thanks to Mark Goodacre and Matthew Montonini for sharing the above video, featuring New Testament...

May 2013

May 15, 2013

Studying the Bible, Loving the Bible

A Facebook friend asked me the following: I'm sure this is an extremely broad question...

May 06, 2013

Historical Research around the Blogosphere

Kevin Brown has finished reviewing Richard Carrier's book. I've shared other parts previously, but now...

April 2013

April 28, 2013

Embarrassment, Muhammad, and Jesus

Loren Rosson has an interesting blog post on the use of the criterion of embarrassment...

April 15, 2013

The Historicity of Jesus around the Blogosphere

Here are some mentions of the issue of Jesus' historicity and related topics from around...

April 09, 2013

Mythicism: A Concise Summary

After I mentioned Paul Regnier's draft on my blog, Jim West complained that he had...

April 05, 2013

Distorted Images

A friend and colleague shared an article on Facebook about the distorted view of the...

February 2013

February 23, 2013

Do Gospel Authors Owe Us The “Truth”?

I read the words below in an article in today's New York Times about the...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Joseph Hoffmann on Mythicism, Skepticism, and Historical Reasoning

Joseph Hoffmann posted on whether "anything goes" in mythicism, providing a wonderful discussion of the...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

The Jewishness of Jesus

Several posts related to the Jewishness of Jesus have appeared on blogs I read over...

November 2012

November 01, 2012

Class on the Crucifixion and Passion Narratives in the New Testament

Since this is another class without changing powerpoint slides, I'm making this one available as...

October 2012

October 12, 2012

Bias and Bayes’ Theorem in History

Regular commenter Ian has posted two more entries on his blog which relate to the...

September 2012

September 20, 2012

3 Jesus’ Wife (With Fill in the Blank at the End)

There's been even more blogged and discussed about the "Jesus' wife" Coptic fragment since my...

August 2012

August 11, 2012

Two Nails in the Coffin of Jesus Mythicism, Coming Soon

The first of the additional nails that are coming soon is Maurice Casey's forthcoming book, Jesus:...

August 08, 2012

Maurice Casey responds to Thomas Thompson

James Tabor wrongly refers to an "all-out war among the experts" regarding the question "Did...

July 2012

July 25, 2012

Was the Historical Jesus on Facebook?

A piece of news has been getting attention today, about a study of classic myths,...

July 06, 2012

An Odd Diatribe from Thomas L. Thompson

In the latest issue of The Bible and Interpretation, Thomas L. Thompson offers a very...

May 2012

May 17, 2012

Two Nazarenes

Our tour guide Baligh's local tour organization which EF works with is called "Nazarene Tours"...

April 2012

April 23, 2012

Letter from Ned Ludd to the Mythicists

This important historical document seems to me to be relevant to something mythicists often say,...

April 09, 2012

Review of Bart Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist? Part One

I'm grateful to have been given the opportunity to participate in the blog tour about...

April 05, 2012

Into and Out of Tombs Round-Up

Blogging about the Talpiot tombs and the historical Jesus blends into other topics that come...

March 2012

March 25, 2012

Mythicism and James the Brother of the Lord (A Reply to Richard Carrier)

Richard Carrier has a lengthy response to my response to his response to Bart Ehrman's...

March 20, 2012

Bart Ehrman on the Existence of a Historical Jesus

Preparing for the appearance of his new book, Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for...

March 06, 2012

A Not-So-Empty Tomb? Keeping Track of Bodies in First Century Jewish Tombs

In my book The Burial of Jesus: What Does History Have to Do with Faith?,...

March 05, 2012

Talpiot Tombs and New Testament Historical Criticism

A piece I wrote, expanding on my thoughts about the relationship between the recent claims...

March 05, 2012

Talpiot Tombs Latest (Including Fish-Reorientation and Unguentaria)

Here are some links to more blogging and reporting about the Talpiot tombs since my...

March 02, 2012

Was Thaddaeus Jesus’ Original Drummer, or his Secretary of Housing and Urban Development?

In my historical Jesus class yesterday, one of the topics was the twelve apostles. When...

February 2012

February 29, 2012

Is the New Testament Evidence Compatible with Jesus having been Buried in Talpiot?

Many news outlets and blogs are talking about the second first-century tomb in Talpiot that James...

February 26, 2012

The Jesus Discovery and The Burial of Jesus

James Tabor and Simcha Jacobovici have a new book coming out in a couple of...

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