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Bart’s video embedded below provides a 25 minute or so conversation with Megan Lewis hitting the high points of where Josephus mentions Jesus and James his brother. Text below the embed is from the transcript of this video that is in the Scholars/Bart Ehram directory in DropBox. All italicized text below was said by Bart. […]
Continue ReadingFrom Bart Ehrman Luke 22:19-20 contains the Last Supper speech. Scribes inserted atonement after Luke removed it. Bart discusses the issues in the podcast as well as his post Why Would a Scribe Change Luke’s Account of the Last Supper? September 30, 2015. and the followup articles here and here. The passage has to do […]
Continue ReadingIn Search of the Historical Jesus – The recent controversial discoveries, and a renowned scholar’s (Tabor) quest to uncover the historical truth about Jesus of Nazareth. Article in Popular Archaeology Magazine has many great photos.
Continue ReadingSee the page at this site titled “Salvation“. Below are nine passages from the NT and one from the OT. The passages below document Jesus’ statements on what is needed to achieve salvation. Nowhere does he say one has to believe he is God’s only begotten son who has existed forever as God, and believe […]
Continue ReadingLuke 4, NRSVUE 16 When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written: 18 “The […]
Continue ReadingStrike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered – Mark reports Jesus said that and it is in the DSS. Jesus, Paul, and the author of John spoke of Sons of Light and Sons of Darkness and that you all are sons of light. That is also cited in the DSS. I am the […]
Continue ReadingDr. James D. Tabor – From Tabor’s guest post on Ehrman’s Blog here. January 22, 2020, at 3:27 pm. I have changed my mind on this [was Jesus married]…see my blog posts [here and here] on this subject…I think the strongest argument for Jesus being “married,” though that word might not be the right one–is […]
Continue ReadingBelow are links and extracts about the apostles and brothers of Jesus. Were they the same or two different groups? 12-19-2013 – The Apostles and Brothers of Jesus by Andrew Sills, Georgia Southern University, asills@georgiasouthern.edu See Sill’s 14-page paper addressing the chances of so many common names in the same groups; e.g. three James and […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains many extracts, summaries, and links to scholarly work about the question/title of this post. The range of positions below is wide. The text below is ChatGPT’s Summary of Bart Ehrman’s 12/16/2025 post titled Was Jesus a Member of the Dead Sea Scroll Community (the Essenes)? Summary Bart argues that while the Dead […]
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