https://youtu.be/baAWiUZHnww In this short video Bart Ehrman and I talk about the earliest layers of our New Testament gospel traditions regarding the teachings of Jesus about “Hell” or Gehenna–the Greek word used. Bart is offering a one day, two lecture FREE course on “What the Hell?” You can sign up…
My lates blog post in The Times of Israel. Whatever you might have thought you had figured out about Pentecost, the Festival of Weeks, or in Hebrew Shavuot–this post will likely complicate things a bit. However, the past point might be the most important in the entire post. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-shifting-meanings-of-shavuot-pentecost/
In this video I situate my work on the “Quest for the Historical Mary–Mother of Jesus,” in the broader shift in the Hellenistic world, in which a “Great Reversal” took place. Humans began to look to the heavenly world above as their true Home, whereas the earth was seen as…
In this long form interview with notes and maps I discuss who were the Ebionites? Were John the Baptist, Jesus, and James part of a “stream” of faith and piety that traced back to the Dead Sea Scroll group, and down through a so-called “Christianity,” before, during, in contrast to…
I was pleased to “pinch hit” for Bart Ehrman today on his popular Youtube podcast, “Misquoting Jesus,” just in time for the big holiday this week. I know I am mostly preaching to the “Choir” here for my regular blog readers, since many of you have either read my book,…
In this edited radio interview, to which I have added video and images, John Batchelor, legendary host of CBS “Eye on the World,” takes me though my new book, The Lost Mary, which he had so thoroughly read and absorbed. It was a delight to speak with him. Enjoy! And…
Have you ever wondered what the Jesus movement was like before the apostle Paul emerged with what he himself calls “my gospel”? I am pleased to announce that my new online course, “Christianity Before Paul,” has now been released and is available. The course is entirely online, self-paced, and…
In this overview of a more extensive lecture on the topic of “The Making of a Messiah,” I discuss some of the methods scholars use to peer through our historical and material evidence to try to get at what we call the “historical figure of Jesus,” not so much what…
In this edited interview I did with Aaron Abke, host of the Youtube channel The Jesus Way podcast we delve deeply into all aspects of the quest for the historical Mary, mother of Jesus. Here is an easy link to my new book, The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Historical Mother…
Many of you know Megan Lewis, who is host for Bart Erhman’s show “Misquoting Jesus,” who also did a superb job in the same role at the New Investigations of the New Testament conference last September. She is really a superb interviewer, he is prepared, comes up with really good…