I am honored to be featured in the popular Bible History Daily feature published by the Biblical Archaeology Society. If you are not a subscriber, it is free–I highly recommend, see this link. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/new-testament/the-strange-ending-of-the-gospel-of-mark-and-why-it-makes-all-the-difference/
Ross Nichols, author of the best documented and most up-to-date account of the entire Moses Shapira “Deuteronomy” scroll saga, The Moses Scroll, is a must read for anyone wanting to keep current with the latest archival search on the entire Shapira question–along with Idan Dershowitz’s recent published articles and book. I am…
The Didache was discovered in 1873 in a library at Constantinople by a Greek, Priest Father Philoteus Bryennios. This precious text, dating to the late 1st or early 2nd century CE, is mentioned by early Christian writers but had disappeared. Father Bryennios discovered it in an archive of old manuscripts quite by…
I know many of my readers are interested in the unfolding saga of the Moses Shapira “Deuteronomy” scroll that broke into worldwide headlines last March. If you missed the story or are a bit vague on the particulars, here is a post I did in mid-March, “A Shapira Dead Sea…
I began this blog in April 2006 shortly after my book The Jesus Dynasty had come out and immediately hit the New York Times best seller list with interview on GMA, Nightline, 20/20 and several major magazine features. I was completely new to the world of blogging. Since that time I…
I recently did a special interview with Derek Lambert of the Youtube channel MythVision in which I discuss the “failed apocalypse” of the first century CE and how the followers of the John the Baptist-Jesus movement, including Paul and James coped with that “Great Disappointment.” This is a very informal…
Ross Nichols, author of the new book, The Moses Scroll, is blogging this month on the fateful events of Moses Shapira’s life, beginning July 20, 1883 when he arrived in London with his “Deuteronomy strips.” There are various accounts here and there–from 1883 until our own time–of the events that followed,…
One of my most popular posts over the years has is titled “Why People are Confused about the Earliest View of Resurrection of the Dead.” It has had over 10,000 views since I posted it in 2015. By resurrection I mean both that of Jesus, as reported in various documents…
I had never really paid much attention to Youtube until two weeks ago. I decided to clean up my Channel and begin posting videos and links under various categories, organizing things and pulling in all sorts of long-lost materials. I had no idea there was so much, both my material…
I have another guest post over on Bart Ehrman’s blog. I encourage my readers to head over there and check it out: Is the Book of Revelation a Revised Version of a non-Christian Apocalypse? This post is a bit special in that it not only responds to the question in…
