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…
In this interview with Jacob Berman, host of the YouTube channel “History Valley,” we talk about the confusing mix of names used for various Jewish and Jewish-Christian groups from the Dead Sea Scroll group to those oriented around James the brother of Jesus and his successors in the first and…
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…
Here are five questions asked by my viewers following my presentation on what most likely took place Easter Morning. You can watch the main presentation here: Weeping and Mourning through Easter. How Resurrection Faith was Born? https://youtu.be/eooqvKN6-zw https://youtu.be/4kiUYzN_rBE
Yes, I mean Drs. William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, Jeremiah L. Johnson, Craig Evans, Scott Stripling–and all the rest, several of whom are my friends and colleagues I have worked with on academic projects. I will say no more, the presentation speaks for itself and is offered with respect and…
Here is my CORE view of Easter morning, based on a careful historical investigation of our sources. This is not the typical “skeptical” or “atheistic” view of things–but a careful analysis of how faith that Jesus was “raised from the dead” arose among his followers–not in Jerusalem on Easter, but…
In this fourth of the mini-series for Holy Week I take things from the death of Jesus to his double burial, and the bare beginnings of resurrection faith as hinted at by Paul. In the 5th and final episode I will examine how resurrection faith move from a glorified spiritual…
Take a trip with me today on the “Biblical Time Machine,” piloted by producer David Roos and the brilliant Prof. Helen Bond. One of my favorite podcasts! Be sure and visit, browse the episodes, you will be hooked! https://www.biblicaltimemachine.com From Helen and Dave: Every good churchgoer knows that after we…
Millions of believing Christians, as well as theologians and historians, are convinced that the earliest faith in Jesus’ resurrection had to do with the assertion that his dead body was revived in a tomb–and that he walked out of that tomb on the third day after his death, as a…
In this ongoing short series on the Top Seven Fateful texts of the N.T. I select another from the apostle Paul–which taken out of context downplays this present world as passing, almost an illusion or shadow, in favor of a future Heavenly World to come. I call this the “Bad…