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An Eyewitness to the Crucifixion? Another Modern Forgery
Published: 17/05/2019I’ve started to discuss several modern forgeries connected with the life of Jesus. These are all completely bogus, but they’ve nonetheless fooled a lot of people. I get emails from people maybe onc ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Did Jesus Go to India? A Modern Gospel Forgery.
Published: 13/05/2019Last week I mentioned in passing the little-known fact that the apocryphal idea that Jesus travelled to India as a child to learn from the Brahmins, comes to us not from ancient forgeries but relative ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Contradictions in the Gospels – Rev Matthew Firth’s Final Response
Published: 12/05/2019Thanks for such an interesting debate, Bart. Here goes with my final response: In my view, a genuine contradiction between two texts occurs when those texts carry mutually exclusive accounts, i.e. acc ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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What Kind of Book Was Papias Writing? Guest Post by Stephen Carlson
Published: 10/05/2019This is the second part of Stephen Carlson’s guest post on the important but now-lost work of the early-second century Christian author Papias. In the previous post he talked about the mind-boggling ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Wine Flowing in the Kingdom: Guest Post on Papias by Stephen Carlson
Published: 8/05/2019Here is yet another guest post by Stephen Carlson on the intriguing but puzzling quotations from Papias, the elusive second century church father who wrote a five-volume book called “Exposition of the ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Could Christian Forgers Justifying Lying?
Published: 6/05/2019Yesterday, in response to a question, I started to discuss the age-old problem of literary forgery (authors lying about their true identity), and specifically the question of why Christians would enga ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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Why Did Ancient Christian Forgers Commit Forgery?
Published: 5/05/2019Here is an intriguing question I received recently about the use of literary “forgery” in antiquity. A “forgery,” in the technical sense I’m using it, refers to a very specific phenomenon: it is not ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Contradictions and Contradictions: Final Response to Matt Firth
Published: 3/05/2019Matt: thanks for your additional comments. I’ve given my replies below. At the outset I should say that I’m not sure I understand what a “genuine contradiction” would look like for you. If you h ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Constantine and the Christian Faith: My Fourth Smithsonian Lecture
Published: 2/05/2019I have found over the years that lots of people have mistaken ideas about Constantine the Great, the early fourth century Roman Emperor who converted to Christianity. I used to have mistaken ideas my ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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Similarities and Differences: Which Matter the Most?
Published: 29/04/2019I have been thinking a lot about the categories of “similarities” and “differences” recently. In fact, now that I look back, I’ve been thinking about these categories for about forty years. It’s fu ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Contradictions in the Gospels – Rev Matthew Firth’s Second Response
Published: 27/04/2019Thanks very much, Bart, for these interesting responses. I will get straight into explaining why I still don’t think you have shown that the examples you have offered are genuine contradictions. In th ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Paul in Hell. The Apocryphal Apocalypse of Paul.
Published: 26/04/2019You may have not noticed, since so much else has been happening on the blog lately (guest posts, a debate, etc.), but I have a very loose thread going on my book on the guided tours of heaven and hel ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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Papias and the Writers of the New Testament: Guest Post by Stephen Carlson
Published: 25/04/2019Here is another post by Stephen Carlson on that mysterious figure named Papias, an early second century writer who claims to have had information from reliable witnesses about the authors of the New T ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Why Did Christianity Take Over the World? Smithsonian Lecture 3.
Published: 23/04/2019Here is Lecture 3 (out of 4) that I came at the Smithsonian Associates in Washington DC on Feb. 10, 2018, based, again, on my book The Triumph of Christianity. This lecture deals with the key aspect ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org -
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Are These Really Contradictions? My Response to Matt Firth
Published: 22/04/2019Thanks Matt for your thoughtful comments on the four contradictions I discussed in my opening post. I agree – this form of debate is much better than the oral back and forths I’m used to on a stage i ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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The Radical Implications of the Resurrection
Published: 21/04/2019Over the years on the blog, I have reflected a number of times on the significance of the earliest Christians’ belief in the resurrection. On this Easter morning, I thought it would be appropri ... Read moreSource: ehrmanblog.org
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