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Gold Q&A (Slight Delay)

With apologies: I won't be able to have your Gold Q&A out by December 29, but I am highly sanguine that it will be before the end of the year!  Sorry!  I'm in London and spending a good deal of time and effort in playing dodgeball with Omicron.  So far so good; but it has [...]

Evangelical Support for Misquoting Jesus: Kurt Jaros, Guest Post #3

Here now is the third of Evangelical theologian and apologist Kurt Jarod's videos supporting my views of the manuscript tradition of the New Testament against critiques leveled by fellow evangelicals.  Watch, see, and enjoy! Misquoting Ehrman – Part Three: Methods “After describing how some Christian scholars have built a strawman out of Bart Ehrman’s view, [...]

Which King of the Jews Do You Prefer? Christmas Message, 2021

Over the years I’ve said a lot about the New Testament, usually showing its manifold and various problems.  But at most that’s half the story, and probably a lot less.  There is something far more important:  once you realize there are problems with a literal or historical reading, there is still the STORY.  And the [...]

Two Apocryphal Short Stories

We've been doing short stories in this thread, and now I will introduce two more.  These are from the "Apocrypha."  This is the term that Protestants use for a group of Jewish books not in the Hebrew Bible that are, however, accepted by both Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians as having a secondary canonical [...]

A Better Kind of Fundamentalist!

Here now is my second post on that intriguing little article by Louis Markos in the journal First Things, which he entitled “Errant Ehrman.”   If you’ll recall from my last post, Markos starts the article by indicating that he felt “great pity” for me because I was the wrong kind of fundamentalist back when I [...]

Recording of Platinum Webinar: Six Versions of the Advent of Jesus

Dear Platinum members, A number of you were able to come to our quarterly Platinum webinar a few days ago; and a number weren't!   Whether there or not, you can see it here.   I thought it was an unusually interesting topic, that I've never lectured on before: six different understandings from early Christianity of how [...]

If Only I Were the *Right* Kind of Fundamentalist….

I was breezing through some old posts and came across this one from many years ago; I'd forgotten all about it, but it still make me smile and scratch my head. ****************************** Several readers of this blog have pointed me to an article in the conservative journal First Things;  the article (a review of a [...]

Gold Q&A for December! Ask Away….

Dear Gold Members, Tis the Season!  And time for another Gold Q&A, our monthly audio for goldl membres only .  As always, if you provide written questions, I'll answer as many as I can the best I can, and I release the audio recording to gold members only.  Have a question to ask?  Anything connected [...]

Another Fantastic Scriptural Short Story: Esther

In my last couple of posts I talked about one of the great short stories of the Hebrew Bible, Ruth; now I move to another – Esther.  This one will take only one post.  Again I am taking this material from my book The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction. *******************************            The book [...]

End of the Year Option?

As we barrel forward in the holiday season, a lot of people are thinking about end-of-the-year giving.   If you’re one of them, would you consider making a donation to the Bart Ehrman Blog?  Every penny you donate goes straight to the charities we support (see below); we take nothing out ourselves to pay for overhead.   [...]