Here now is my second post on that intriguing little article by Louis Markos in the journal First Things, which he entitled “Errant Ehrman.” If you’ll recall from my last post, Markos starts the article by indicating that he felt “great pity” for me because I was the wrong kind of fundamentalist back when I was a conservative Christian. My problem, he indicates, is that I applied modern standards to decide whether the Bible was inerrant. Here are his words: He [Ehrman] was taught, rightly, that there are no contradictions in the Bible, but he was trained, quite falsely, to interpret the non-contradictory nature of the Bible in modern, scientific, post-Enlightenment terms. That is to say, he was encouraged to test the truth of the Bible against a verification system that has only existed for some 250 years….. Read by Petra Ortiz
Dr. Ehrman points out the striking 14-14-14 of Matthew's genealogy of Jesus and some of its inherent problems. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
An excerpt from Roberta Mazza's blog in 2015 dealing with the issue of destroying mummy masks for the papyri. Read by Mike Johnson.
The first of three posts in which Bart explains how he came to write Misquoting Jesus. Read by Steve McCabe.