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Who CARES if Mark was the First Gospel Written?
Published: 15/02/2019When I teach students in my Introduction to the New Testament class about the Synoptic Problem, it becomes a bit like pulling teeth. To be sure, at the very outset, students are intrigued. When I se ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Editorial Fatigue in Luke: More from Blog Guest Mark Goodacre
Published: 13/02/2019Yesterday I published the first of two guest posts by Mark Goodacre fellow blog member and long time colleague and New Testament scholar (at rival Duke) (Yes, we still are talking to each other here ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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A New Argument that Mark Was the First Gospel (Editorial Fatigue): Guest Post by Mark Goodacre!
Published: 12/02/2019In response to my post on why scholars have long thought that Mark was the first Gospel and that Matthew and Luke copied it for many of their stories (a view called Markan Priority), a blog reader ask ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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Pursuing My Passion for Textual Criticism
Published: 11/02/2019Yesterday I started answering the question of how I moved on from doing research principally on New Testament textual criticism to do other things, mainly involving different aspects of the literature ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Mark: The First Gospel in 19th Century Research
Published: 8/02/2019My custom/self-imposed policy is to re-post blog posts only when they are a few years old, in the expectation that most blog members will not have seen them and that some of those who have — if ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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The Beginning of the Quest of the Historical Jesus
Published: 7/02/2019In 1901 William Wrede, a German Protestant biblical scholar, published his earth-shattering work, Das Messiasgeheimnis, “The Messianic Secret.” It overturned in a rather devastating way the entire sc ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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How No One Understands Jesus in Mark’s Gospel
Published: 4/02/2019In yesterday’s post I began to address the question: What is the Messianic Secret? This is a term that scholars have applied for over a century to the Gospel of Mark, where Jesus repeatedly tells any ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Guest Post! Joel Marcus on His New Book on the John the Baptist
Published: 1/02/2019Many readers of the blog will already be familiar with my long-time friend and colleague from Duke, Joel Marcus, one of the top New Testament scholars in America (or anywhere else, for that matter). ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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The Aberrant View of the Afterlife in the Apocalypse of Peter
Published: 30/01/2019As we have seen on the blog before, when church leaders were deciding which books should be counted among the Christian Scriptures, to go along with the “Old Testament,” they used a range of criteria: ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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Finally. Why Did the Apocalypse of Peter Not Make It Into the Canon?
Published: 29/01/2019Sometimes in my courses on the New Testament my students have trouble understanding why I’m so interested (OK, obsessed) with the small details of the text, rather than the “big picture.” Who ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Other Manuscripts of the Apocalypse of Peter, And Why It Matters
Published: 28/01/2019In my last post about the Apocalypse of Peter I got down in the weeds a bit to talk about the discoveries and character of the two main manuscript sources of evidence we have of the document, a Greek ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Was the Gospel of Mark Written by a Jew? Readers’ Mailbag January 27, 2019
Published: 27/01/2019For this week’s mailbag I’ll address and interesting question asked by a member of the blog. The question is simple on the surface but actually rather complicated, and I don’t remember ever discussin ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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How Do We Know What Was Originally in the Apocalypse of Peter?
Published: 25/01/2019It was a long time ago that I started a thread dealing with the question of why the Apocalypse of Peter did not make it into the New Testament but 2 Peter did. I’ll give a summary here of where we ar ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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If Jesus Wasn’t God, Was He Necessarily Either a Calloused Liar or a Raving Lunatic?
Published: 22/01/2019This is my my last of three blasts-from-the-pasts dealing with fundamentalist, or conservative evangelical, forms of Christianity, this time addressing the claims often made (first by C.S. Lewis, who ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Was Jesus A Great Moral Teacher? A Blast From the Past
Published: 21/01/2019A few days ago, in response to a question, I reposted on the problem of fundamentalism; looking back on the blog some six years, I see that at about the same time another related question appeared. T ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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Readers’ Mailbag 1/20/2019: The Only Story of Jesus as a Boy in the New Testament
Published: 20/01/2019Based on the feedback I’ve received on the blog this past week, I’ve decided to reinstate the weekly Readers’ Mailbag. I have actually continued responding to questions since abandoning the feature ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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