In chapter 4 of Bart Ehrman’s book, How Jesus Became God, focuses on what Ehrman believes we cannot know about the resurrection of Jesus. Early on in the chapte...
When it comes to assessing which parts of the Gospels are historically credible and which aren’t, Bart Ehrman adheres to the generally accepted methods of bibli...
After a temporary diversion into addressing Richard Carrier and the “mythicist movement,” I am now getting back to my extended book analysis of Bart Ehrman’s Ho...
Up until about three weeks ago, I really hadn’t paid much attention to Richard Carrier and the “mythicist movement.” I knew a little bit about his claims, but s...
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 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...
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...
After the taking of Jotapata, Vespasian dispatched the 5th and 10th legions to secure Scythopolis in Samaria, while he took two other legions to the coastal cit...