We now come to the third post of my series on Richard Carrier and the “mythicist movement” which claims there was no historical person named Jesus, and that the...
In my last post, I began to look at Richard Carrier’s claims that Jesus probably never existed and that the Gospels were, in fact, a myth. I noted that several ...
Last week I got into a little bit of a “Twitter war” over the issue of whether or not Jesus was a historical person. As often happens on social media like Twitt...
I wanted to share this with anyone interested. I was just interviewed by SJ Thomason on her YouTube channel. We discussed a variety of things from Biblical Stud...
In my last post, I began to go through chapter 2 of Bart Ehrman’s book, How Jesus Became God. It is in chapter 2 that Ehrman attempts to argue that within Judai...
Bart Ehrman’s second chapter in his book, How Jesus Became God, is entitled, “Divine Humans in Ancient Israel.” Having spent his first chapter taking about paga...
With the Idumeans now in the city, they and the zealots began to unleash a reign of terror in Jerusalem. The first order of business for the Idumeans was to go ...
In Bart Ehrman’s book, How Jesus Became God, he argues (as the title suggests) that the historical Jesus was just a man—an apocalyptic prophet who expected the ...
Over the past decade or so, Bart Ehrman has made quite a name for himself, having written numerous books about Jesus and early Christianity that, to say the ver...
In actuality, Eleazar ben-Simon and Zacharias ben-Phalek, two of the zealot leaders who, along with the rest of the zealots, were trapped in the Temple, smuggle...