Do the early Christians think God is more just and determined to punish or more merciful and determined to forgive? I deal with the matter in one of the chapters in my next scholarly book, Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition, coming out in April with Yale University Press. The book has been done for months now, and I am right now reading through the final page proofs sent to me by the press – making final corrections of typos before it heads into production. Read by Petra Ortiz
Did Judas betray Jesus out of sheer greed, or was there more to it than that? And what exactly did he reveal to the...
Dr. Ehrman surveys the variety of ideas about what NT books were "canonical" in the early church. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
Side-bar boxes from The New Testament: A Historical Introduction discussing both slavery and Jesus' take on family values in the New Testament. Read by...