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The Trickiest Criterion for Determining What Happened in the Life of Jesus
Published: 20/07/2018Here I continue the thread on how scholars go about establishing which traditions in the Gospels appear to reflect what actually happened in the life of Jesus. Of all the things I’ve said so far, th ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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An Important Criterion for Establishing What Actually Happened
Published: 19/07/2018I am in the midst of a threat talking about how historians can use sources such as the Gospels to know what actually happened in Jesus’ life. These books were not *meant* to provide disinterested his ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Rules of Thumb for Reconstructing the History behind the Gospels
Published: 17/07/2018In yesterday’s post I laid out the “wish list” historians have when it comes to sources of information about persons and events of the past, and evaluated how well the Gospels stack up against the lis ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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What I Saw at St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai
Published: 15/07/2018Yesterday I responded to a reader of the blog who wanted me to repeat a post from a few years ago about my visit to St. Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, the famed place where Mo ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Visiting the Monastery at Mount Sinai: A Blast From the Past
Published: 14/07/2018A long-time reader has asked that I re-post one of her favorite bits from the blog archives, about my trip a few years ago to Saint Catherine’s monastery at Mount Sinai. It was indeed an amazin ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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A Key Contradiction in the Birth Narratives
Published: 12/07/2018Several readers have asked about my comment that Matthew and Luke appear to contradict each other in their birth narratives, especially when Matthew indicates that Jesus’ family fled to Egypt after hi ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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Are Matthew and Paul at Odds on the Most Important Issue?
Published: 10/07/2018I have been talking about contradictions and their value for knowing about history — about what actually happened in the past. There are lots of other kinds of ways that passages of the New Tes ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Are the Gospels Principally Concerned to Show What Actually Happened?
Published: 9/07/2018I will not be going through the entirety of the four Gospels to point out how contradictions between one account and another make these texts difficult to use for historical purposes. My previous pos ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Why Contradictions Matter for Understanding the Life of Jesus
Published: 8/07/2018Realizing that there are contradictions in our surviving New Testament texts matters a good deal when it comes to trying to reconstruct the history behind them. I’ll devote several posts to this ques ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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The Historical Significance of Contradictions
Published: 5/07/2018I have been talking about the contradictions in the Bible and why they matter – not simply to problematize assumptions about the inerrancy of the Bible (“See: there are contradictions!”) but also for ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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The Broader Significance(s) of Contradictions
Published: 2/07/2018I have been discussing the matter of contradictions in the Bible and the question of why they matter. My overarching point is that they matter NOT simply so we can say “Aha! There are contradictions ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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The Strangest Moment of My Teaching Career
Published: 1/07/2018Here is an interesting question that I sometimes get asked, which brought to mind one of the strangest things that has ever happened to me in my now 34 years of teaching at the university level. ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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If the Bible is Contradictory, How Can it Be Authoritative?
Published: 29/06/2018In my previous post I explained why the contradictions found in the Bible affect a certain understanding of the inspiration of Scripture. The contradictions are not a point in and of themselves (OK, ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Internal Discrepancies in the Gospel of John
Published: 26/06/2018Yesterday I answered a question about whether some of the discrepancies in Luke-Acts are due to the author having used a variety of sources that had different views. The blog member who asked the que ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Why Does Luke Appear to Contradict Himself?
Published: 25/06/2018A question has come from a reader, based on my recent post dealing with the apparent contradiction between Luke and Acts on the timing of Jesus’ ascension. Do contradictions often result from author ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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Sources for the Hebrew Bible: A Blast from the Past
Published: 24/06/2018I was fishing around for something different to post today, and came across this Q & A from exactly six years ago. I get asked the question a lot, and I would answer it the same way even now, des ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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