Hat tip to Shaun , who directed me to the fact that Ben Witherington blogged on each chapter of Bart’s book back when it came out, some years ago. The first of the series is here . I post this even though it’s well after the fact because I get a lot of...
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Assessing Bart Ehrman’s Logic on the Unreliability of New Testament Textual Transmission
Peter Gurry of the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog has a concise, clear-headed response to some of the ways Bart Ehrman defends the thesis that the textual transmission of the Greek New Testament wasn’t very reliable: “Evaluating Ehrman’s Comparative...
Update on the First Century Manuscript of the Gospel of Mark: It’s Not First Century
Several years ago Dan Wallace mentioned in a debate with Bart Ehrman that a possible first-century papryus of Mark had been found. That papyrus became known as “first century Mark” in the popular arena. Finally, there’s been a definitive update on...
Fragments of Truth Trailer: A Faithlife TV Original Film
Faithlife TV has created a feature film documentary on New Testament manuscripts and textual criticism. It's hosted by Dr. Craig Evans. The visuals are stunning. The content takes on folks like Bart Ehrman (Dr. Evans has debated him a number of times) and their claims...
Audio from the ETS Session on New Testament Textual Criticism
The Evangelical Textual Criticism blog has a link to the audio files of the presentations in the ETS session devoted to NT Textual criticism. As the ETC blog notes: The session was titled “Growing Up in the Ehrman Era: Retrospect and Prospect on Our Text-Critical...
Recent Article Response to Bart Ehrman’s Views on Ancient Pseudepigraphy
The Society of Biblical Literature just released the latest issue of its Journal of Biblical Literature. One of the articles caught my attention: “Content and Form: Authorship Attribution and Pseudonymity in Ancient Speeches, Letters, Lectures, and Translations...
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 129: ETS-SBL Interviews with Scholars – Part 2
During the recent annual meetings for biblical studies scholars held in San Antonio, Dr. Heiser interviewed a number of scholars about their recent work. In Part 2 of those interviews, we meet Dr. Andy Naselli (New Testament professor at Bethlehem College and...
Larry Hurtado on Bart Ehrman’s Book, How Jesus Became God
Larry Hurtado has a thoughtful, even-handed review of Ehrman’s book here. This subject area is one of Hurtado’s areas of expertise, his criticisms, though irenic in tone, are telling. My only addition would be toward the end. Ehrman seems completely...
Review of Bart Ehrman’s Latest Book, How Jesus Became God
Dr. Andreas Kostenberger just posted his review of Ehrman’s most recent work, How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee . The review is more of an overview of problems he sees with Ehrman’s thinking. He leaves analysis of those...
Bart Ehrman Smacks Down Jesus Mythicism
New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman, well known to non-specialist readers as a critic of evangelical views of Jesus (Ehrman is an atheist[1. This is my estimation. Ehrman actually isn’t clear on whether he’s atheist or agnostic — but he’ll answer...
Bart Ehrman vs. the Son of God in Mark 1:1 – A Response
I’ve posted on Bart Ehrman and his work several times before on this blog (e.g., here and here ). My contention with Bart is that he’s a fundamentalist — someone who is unwilling to process an issue in any other way than the black-and-white,...
Another Bart-Sequitur
Well, Bart Ehrman is at it again. Not content with his all-or-nothing illogic concerning the transmission of the text (and so the concepts) of the New Testament, professor Ehrman is once again coming to a Barnes and Noble near you (and maybe a Fantasy Channel …...
More on the Reliability of the New Testament
Transcripts and papers from the debate between Dan Wallace and Bart Ehrman, and other papers associated with the conference that featured that debate, are now available .
On the Presumed Corruption of the Greek New Testament
Many of you know that Bart Ehrman has made something of a small fortune on arguing that early scribes “corrupted” the transmission of the Greek New Testament by making “orthodox corrections” [read: changes that reflected orthodox predilections...
The (Bart) Ehrman Project
I heard today about a new website just starting up that seeks to address the various claims of New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman. I’ve blogged about Bart Ehrman before, so in case you don’t know who he is, go here (you’ll have to scroll down and...