The most-commented-upon post from the blog's first decade shows how the "suffering servant" of Isaiah 53 was, prior to Christianity, understood to be Israel Read by John Paul Middlesworth
Bart asks why Christianity spread as rapidly as it did in its early days, and explores the possibility that it might have been the...
Dr. Ehrman explores whether or not Jesus's final "triumphal entry" into Jerusalem was historical. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
Dr. Ehrman looks at kissing in the Gospel of Philip, concluding that it does not show an intimate relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene....