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My Edition of the Apostolic Fathers

Since I often get asked about topics I've written about, I have been doing a long thread discussing the various books I've published.  For the next several posts I'll talk about my edition of the "Apostolic Fathers Volume 1" and "Apostolic Fathers Volume 2" for the Loeb Classical Library (Harvard University Press, 2003).  The "Loeb" [...]

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The Reliability of Eyewitnesses and Abraham Lincoln’s Watch

A post from 2012 that I had completely forgotten! ****************************** A fascinating news item has appeared in the Smithsonian Magazine. At first it may not be obvious how it connects to Christianity in Antiquity. But I think it does. It is about a watch owned by Abraham Lincoln. Here is the link to the full [...]

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How I Almost Published “Lost in Transmission”

I can't end my discussion of my book Misquoting Jesus without telling one of my favorite publishing stories.  OK ... without *repeating* it.  I've given it on the blog before, but it's been some years.  It was originally a response to a question about how trade books get their titles, and my explanation that "Misquoting [...]

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July 2024 Platinum webinar video

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Misquoting Jesus and My Fall From Fundamentalism

Is the Bible the inerrant Word of God or a very human book with all the problems that normally entails?  For me, realizing that we don’t have the Bible in its original form was important to my thinking as I moved away believing the Bible had come straight to us from God. I’ve been talking [...]

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How Scholarship Changed My Life

I continue now with the backstory of why I wrote my book Misquoting Jesus; up to this point I’ve explained how I became an evangelical Christian and, after high school, made a bee-line for Moody Bible Institute and became interested in understanding how  we got the New Testament – not in the original writings, which [...]

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Why I Wrote Misquoting Jesus

My book Misquoting Jesus was the biggest surprise of my career.  No one thought (as colleague scholars frequently told me, somewhat emphatically, in advance) that a book like this would go *anywhere*.  A discussion of changes made by scribes while copying the manuscripts of the New Testament?  What?  Even New Testament experts were and are [...]

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Interested in Textual Criticism? Probably My Most Useful (Edited) Book

Many people on the blog are interested in textual criticism, the field that exams our surviving manuscripts of the New Testament to figure out what the authors originally wrote and to see how and why their writings came to be changed by later scribes.  One of the most important books I've published was one I [...]

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Women and Gender: Early Christianity in a Patriarchal World

Jesus and his earliest followers, including Paul, may have been unusually open  to women playing an important role in the community of the faithful, but it was not long until women's voices and activities came to be suppressed.  It is interesting to see both how that happened, historically, and how some women found alternative ways [...]

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August Gold Q&A–Get Your Qs In!

I'll be recording another Q&A for all Gold & Platinum members soon, so here's your chance to take advantage of this perk. Send me whatever question has been nagging at you (blog-related, of course!). Short, to-the-point questions of general interest are most likely to get answered. Send an email to Diane at ehrmanblog@gmail.com, and she'll [...]

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