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The first extrabiblical evidence for Israel is about its destruction?

The first extrabiblical evidence for Israel is about its destruction?

If the Bible is infallible which words are true?

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What I Once Believed About SATAN

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Holy Terror?: Early Christian Stories about Jesus' Childhood and Family

The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an extracanonical narrative of the boyhood of Jesus (5-12 years of age). The precocious Jesus performs miracles but also curses and harms playmates. All the while, Mary and Joseph desperately try to correct him. What is the point of these stories? Why would early Christians tell them? How do they relate the Gospels of the New Testament? Join Chris Frilingos for his talk "Holy Terror?: Early Christian Stories about Jesus' Childhood and Family" at the New Insights into the New Testament conference from Sept. 26-27.  Early bird pricing is available through Aug. 22

The conquest in the Bible feels morally wrong today.

The conquest depicted in the Bible feels morally wrong today, but it may have had a different purpose for it's ancient audience.

Why Bart really lost his faith. & what came after

Links Mentioned in this Episode: - https://www.bartehrman.com/BSA - Stream the live recording of our latest course Decoding the Gospel of John with Dr. Hugo Méndez for free this weekend with a 14 day free trial of the Biblical Studies Academy, or BSA. *Episode Outline:* 0:00 What happens after deconversion when faith, community, and certainty disappear? 2:56 Bart explains why suffering, not biblical scholarship, ultimately led him to leave Christianity 4:23 Fear of hell, losing morality, and losing community while questioning faith 7:07 Why Bart says he went “kicking and screaming” out of Chr

How do scholars know which manuscripts are closer to the original text?

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This Was a MAJOR Development Among Jewish Thinkers

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Forged? A New Proposal on the Origins of Secret Mark

Did Morton Smith forge the Mar Saba Clementine letter, along with its quotations of a lost longer version of the Gospel of Mark? Did he, or didn’t he? Did he have the skill? The real question is when did he find it? If Smith found it several years before his 1958 "discovery," this could explain a lot of things that have puzzled scholars. Join Craig Evans for his talk "Forged? A New Proposal on the Origins of Secret Mark" at the New Insights into the New Testament conference from Sept. 26-27.  Early bird pricing is available through Aug. 22.  Learn more or register at: bartehrman.com/gonint2

The Bible is NOT a history book.

The Bible is NOT a history book.

Having more manuscripts doesn't mean it's true.

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When Did SATAN Start Carrying a Pitchfork?!

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Bones of Contention: The Contested Deaths of Peter and Paul

Peter and Paul are two of Christianity's most famous martyrs, but the stories of their deaths disagree on almost every major detail: Why did they die? Where did they die? When did they die? Did they die together or separate? And what happened to their bodies? This lecture will explore some of these questions and show that the authors of these various stories wrote address questions and issues in their own time, not to provide a straightforward account of what happened in the first century. Join David Eastman for his talk "Bones of Contention: The Contested Deaths of Peter and Paul" at the Ne

Think the synoptic problem is 3 gospels? Think again

Get access to the Q course! - https://www.bartehrman.com/qdebate What is the synoptic problem — and why does it stop at three gospels? Matthew, Mark, and Luke clearly share a literary relationship. That much has been recognized since Griesbach laid the three texts side by side in 1776. But the same phenomenon appears far beyond the synoptic gospels, and it rarely gets mapped as a single picture. In this episode, CJ Cornthwaite, PhD traces the literary connections running through early Christian writing: John's knowledge of the synoptics, the Gospel of Thomas and its synoptic parallels, the

The Lost Letter of Paul: Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans as Christian Scripture

Bibles today contain fourteen letters attributed to the Apostle Paul. But this has not always been the case. For more than a millennium, readers found a fifteenth letter—a Pauline Epistle to the Laodiceans—among their holy scriptures. Across centuries, continents, and cultures, this lost letter of Paul inspired Christians to challenge authorities and question received ideas about scripture. Join Ian Mills for his talk "The Lost Letter of Paul: Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans as Christian Scripture" at the New Insights into the New Testament conference from Sept. 26-27.  Early bird pricing i

The Gospel of Mary: Christian Teaching Before the Canon

The Gospel of Mary offers a glimpse of Christian teaching before scripture was limited to a four-gospel canon. Its story elaborates Jesus’s appearance to Mary Magdalene and other disciples known from the Gospel of John. The Savior explains “What is the sin of the world?” and Mary recounts his teaching about the rise of the soul, fulfilling his command to tell the other disciples that he is ascending to God. Join Karen King for her talk "The Gospel of Mary: Christian Teaching Before the Canon" at the New Insights into the New Testament conference from Sept. 26-27.  Early bird pricing is availa

Are the Ten Commandments some of the oldest core tenets in the Bible?

Are the Ten Commandments some of the oldest core tenets in the Bible?

Is the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament Historically Reliable?

Links Mentioned in this Episode: - https://www.bartehrman.com/hbdeal - To celebrate the launch of Misquoting Moses, all through August Joel's course The Hebrew Bible: Exploring the Literature of Ancient Israel is on sale at 50% off via this link. *Episode Outline:* 0:00 Did the Flood, Exodus, Jericho, and other famous Hebrew Bible stories actually happen? 3:07 Why the Bible is not a modern history book or an eyewitness account of the past 5:21 How historians compare biblical stories with competing ancient accounts 7:16 The tools scholars use: language, literary analysis, archaeology, and outs

Was Jesus' identity a secret in the Gospel of Mark?

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Be Willing to CHANGE Your Mind

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"Thou shalt not kill?" That's not what the Hebrew says.

"Thou shalt not kill?" That's not what the Hebrew says.

Where did Satan actually come from?

Links Mentioned in this Episode: - https://www.bartehrman.com/whatthehell - Bart’s free course about Hell called What the Hell? Jesus' Teachings of the Afterlife – learn where the doctrine of hell actually came from, what Jesus really taught about the afterlife, and how a doctrine that scares so many people made its way into Christianity in the first place. - https://www.bartehrman.com/NINT - our fourth annual New Insights into the New Testament (NINT) is coming up September 26th and 27th. This year’s theme is Apocrypha and Canon: Lost Scriptures and the Making of the New Testament. Get disco

Was Jesus' anger removed from some of the Gospels?

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Moody Was a SPECIAL Experience

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The Other Life of Mary: Stories the Bible Never Told about the Mother of Jesus

The canonical gospels offer little information about the life of Mary of Nazareth before the birth of Jesus, and less still about what happened to her after Jesus’ death. Christian imagination filled in these gaps in Mary’s biography through additional texts, presenting her as wife and mother, but also disciple, visionary, matriarch, heavenly sojourner, and mediator. Join Tony Burke for his talk "The Other Life of Mary: Stories the Bible Never Told about the Mother of Jesus" at the New Insights into the New Testament conference from Sept. 26-27.  Early bird pricing is available through Aug. 2

The Ten Commandments uses the rarest word for "kill" in the Bible.

The Ten Commandments uses the rarest word for "kill" in the Bible.

Does Jesus ever claim to be born of a virgin?

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Why I MEMORIZED Books of the Bible Word For Word

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Bones of Contention: The Contested Deaths of Peter and Paul

Peter and Paul are two of Christianity's most famous martyrs, but the stories of their deaths disagree on almost every major detail: Why did they die? Where did they die? When did they die? Did they die together or separate? And what happened to their bodies? This lecture will explore some of these questions and show that the authors of these various stories wrote address questions and issues in their own time, not to provide a straightforward account of what happened in the first century. Join David Eastman for his talk "Bones of Contention: The Contested Deaths of Peter and Paul" at the Ne

Peter and the Magician: A Defining Confrontation in Early Christianity

This lecture will explore the roles of magic and miracles in establishing Peter's apostolic authority in the New Testament and the apocryphal Acts of Peter. Join Shaily Shashikant Patel for her talk "Peter and the Magician: A Defining Confrontation in Early Christianity" at the New Insights into the New Testament conference from Sept. 26-27. Early bird pricing is available through Aug. 22.  Learn more or register at: bartehrman.com/gonint26

The Lost Letter of Paul: Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans as Christian Scripture

Bibles today contain fourteen letters attributed to the Apostle Paul. But this has not always been the case. For more than a millennium, readers found a fifteenth letter—a Pauline Epistle to the Laodiceans—among their holy scriptures. Across centuries, continents, and cultures, this lost letter of Paul inspired Christians to challenge authorities and question received ideas about scripture. Join Ian Mills for his talk "The Lost Letter of Paul: Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans as Christian Scripture" at the New Insights into the New Testament conference from Sept. 26-27.  Early bird pricing i

Why do we tell creation stories?

Why do we tell creation stories?

Who actually wrote the 10 commandments?

*Links mentioned in this episode* https://bartehrman.com/hbdeal - To celebrate the launch of Misquoting Moses, we’re offering 50% off Joel’s course, "The Hebrew Bible: Exploring the Literature of Ancient Israel," all through August. *Episode Outline:* 0:00 The Bible gives us multiple versions of the Ten Commandments, so who actually wrote them? 1:20 Where the Ten Commandments appear in Exodus and Deuteronomy 3:19 Did Moses write the tablets, or does Exodus say God wrote them himself? 5:51 Why the Exodus and Deuteronomy versions point to different authors and sources 10:39 The four major lite

Was Jesus an original thinker?

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John the Baptist's WARNING

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The Gospel of Mary: Christian Teaching Before the Canon

The Gospel of Mary offers a glimpse of Christian teaching before scripture was limited to a four-gospel canon. Its story elaborates Jesus’s appearance to Mary Magdalene and other disciples known from the Gospel of John. The Savior explains “What is the sin of the world?” and Mary recounts his teaching about the rise of the soul, fulfilling his command to tell the other disciples that he is ascending to God. Join Karen King for her talk "The Gospel of Mary: Christian Teaching Before the Canon" at the New Insights into the New Testament conference from Sept. 26-27.  Early bird pricing is availa

The Bible's creation stories contradict each othe

The Bible's creation stories contradict each other.

Did earlier Christians believe the Church was the Millennium in Revelation?

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If John Was Baptizing for the Remission of Sins and He Baptized Jesus ...

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Holy Terror?: Early Christian Stories about Jesus' Childhood and Family

The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an extracanonical narrative of the boyhood of Jesus (5-12 years of age). The precocious Jesus performs miracles but also curses and harms playmates. All the while, Mary and Joseph desperately try to correct him. What is the point of these stories? Why would early Christians tell them? How do they relate the Gospels of the New Testament? Join Chris Frilingos for his talk "Holy Terror?: Early Christian Stories about Jesus' Childhood and Family" at the New Insights into the New Testament conference from Sept. 26-27.  Early bird pricing is available through Aug. 22

Why does the Bible have two creation stories?

Why does the Bible have two creation stories?

The Surprising Origins of the "Apocalypse"

Most people hear "apocalypse" and think of the end of the world. Nuclear war. Climate collapse. Jesus coming back on the clouds. But that's not what the word originally meant... In this conversation, Bart talks with Dr. Jason Staples of North Carolina State University, an expert in early Judaism and Christian origins, about where apocalyptic thinking actually came from and why it took hold so completely in the centuries around Jesus. Jason explains what "apocalypse" originally meant, why the Hebrew Bible contains almost none of this literature, and how the encounter with Persia during the B

Did Revelation predict the French Revolution?

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Why I'm Not a Christian

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Was Jesus REALLY Baptized by John?

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Meeting Mary Magdalene: The Forgotten Leader of the Disciples

This lecture will explore the ways in which Mary Magdalene is portrayed in a range of apocryphal Christian texts, including the Gospel of Philip, a Psalm from the Manichaean tradition, and the Gospel of Thomas. We will see how early Christian authors developed Mary Magdalene’s character to emphasise her role as a leader of the male disciples, and her special status as a chosen recipient of Jesus's post-resurrection teachings. Join Kim Fowler for her talk "Meeting Mary Magdalene: The Forgotten Leader of the Disciples" at the New Insights into the New Testament conference from Sept. 26-27.  Ear

There is NO accurate translation of the Bible

There is NO accurate translation of the Bible.

What Moody Bible College Didn't Prepare Me For

Links Mentioned in this Episode: - https://www.bartehrman.com/NINT - our fourth annual New Insights into the New Testament (NINT) is coming up September 26th and 27th. This year’s theme is Apocrypha and Canon: Lost Scriptures and the Making of the New Testament. Get discounted early-bird pricing through August 22nd and use code MJPODCAST for a special additional discount. *Episode Description* Many people familiar with Dr. Bart Ehrman’s work know him as a leading authority on the New Testament and early Christianity, teaching at a secular university. But every journey has a beginning, and fo

How did we get from Jesus to the church?

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That's the OPPOSITE of Jesus!

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Forged? A New Proposal on the Origins of Secret Mark

Did Morton Smith forge the Mar Saba Clementine letter, along with its quotations of a lost longer version of the Gospel of Mark? Did he, or didn’t he? Did he have the skill? The real question is when did he find it? If Smith found it several years before his 1958 "discovery," this could explain a lot of things that have puzzled scholars. Join Craig Evans for his talk "Forged? A New Proposal on the Origins of Secret Mark" at the New Insights into the New Testament conference from Sept. 26-27.  Early bird pricing is available through Aug. 22.  Learn more or register at: bartehrman.com/gonint2

New Podcast: Misquoting Moses

NEW PODCAST: Misquoting Moses with Joel Baden and Megan Kraege

Revelation is about Rome, not a future Antichrist

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Did Jesus Belong to the ESSENE Community

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The Other Life of Mary: Stories the Bible Never Told about the Mother of Jesus

The canonical gospels offer little information about the life of Mary of Nazareth before the birth of Jesus, and less still about what happened to her after Jesus’ death. Christian imagination filled in these gaps in Mary’s biography through additional texts, presenting her as wife and mother, but also disciple, visionary, matriarch, heavenly sojourner, and mediator. Join Tony Burke for his talk "The Other Life of Mary: Stories the Bible Never Told about the Mother of Jesus" at the New Insights into the New Testament conference from Sept. 26-27.  Early bird pricing is available through Aug. 2