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How Many Books in the New Testament Were Forged?
Published: 20/09/2019In response to the lecture on ancient practices of pseudepigraphy (writing in the name of a famous person when, alas, you are actually someone else), I received this important question, getting to the ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Were Ancient Readers Interested in Detecting Forgeries?
Published: 18/09/2019I continue now with my lecture this past week on whether ancient readers and writers considered pseudepigraphic writing – in which an author claimed to be someone else (always someone famous) – was se ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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My Lecture in Quebec: Did Ancient Authors Try To Deceive Their Readers?
Published: 17/09/2019I have decided to go ahead and post the address I gave last week to an academic conference in Quebec on “Pseudepigraphy” in the ancient world. If you’re not familiar with the term ( ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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Now: Literary Inconsistencies in the Old Testament
Published: 11/09/2019Yesterday I started answering a question about whether the problems in the Hebrew Bible were as significant as those in the New Testament, and my response was: Yes! Even more so! In yesterday’s post I ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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What About the Original *Old* Testament?
Published: 10/09/2019Recently several readers have asked me about the manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible; I talk a lot about the New Testament on the blog, but what about the Old Testament? Are there problems there too? Sho ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Some Pitfalls of Writing for a General Audience
Published: 9/09/2019As I was pointing out, scholars in most fields often have problems with colleagues who write trade books. It may seem weird to outsiders, but I explained one of the major reasons in the last post. A ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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Why Don’t More Scholars Write Trade Books?
Published: 8/09/2019This post is free for all readers. It can give you an idea of *one* kind of post you find on the blog, five days a week. Usually the posts are actually discussing what scholars say about the New Tes ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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A Readable Edition of the “Lost” (i.e. non-canonical) Gospels
Published: 4/09/2019As I have pointed out before on the blog, the topic of the last post, the edition of the non-canonical Gospels (The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations), which I published with my colleague Zla ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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The Scholarly Edition of the Apocryphal Gospels
Published: 3/09/2019In my last couple of posts I began to describe how my edition of the Apocryphal Gospels came about. After having done the Apostolic Fathers in two volumes for the Loeb, I had decided never to do ano ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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Why It’s Hard to Publish a Translation: Blast from the Past
Published: 2/09/2019In my last post in this thread, en route to discussing my latest attempt at publishing both a scholarly and a trade book on the same topic, I talked about how I took on the task of doing a new Greek-E ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Can We Reconstruct the Entire New Testament from Quotations of the Church Fathers?
Published: 1/09/2019I am making this post free to everyone, so that, if you’re not a member of the blog, you can see what you’re missing. Every week I make five posts on everything connected to the New Testa ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Did Superior Health Care Lead to the Dominance of Christianity?
Published: 28/08/2019Interesting question from a recent member of the blog: QUESTION: In the August 5/12 New Yorker, a review of a new book, “The mosquito: A Human History of our Deadliest Predator.” In this review ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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On Producing a New Translation of Ancient Texts
Published: 27/08/2019I’m in the middle of discussing what it’s like to publish a trade book for general audiences and an academic book for scholars on the same topic. The third time I did this involved a com ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Writing Scholarly and Popular Books on the Same Topic
Published: 26/08/2019As many of you know, I am now working on a scholarly monograph dealing with an aspect of the afterlife, on the heels of having written a “trade” book (that is, for popular audiences) on th ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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