One of the great things about being a research scholar is that if you’re diligent and paying attention, you learn new stuff all the time. For someone with an inquiring mind, it’s like striking gold with some fair regularity. And if you dig deep enough, you find things that very few people know about – often even scholars within your own field. I first read the book of Revelation when I was seventeen; I had a college course on it two years later; and have studied it ever since. But it was not until a couple of years ago that I came to know something about the very oldest commentary we have on the book. Read by Petra Ortiz
Bart explains why it's much more likely that the writers of Matthew, Mark, and Luke were copying each other than that they just happened...
Bart looks at Zechariah's interest in Jerusalem and a Davidic messiah. Read by John Paul Middlesworth.
Kurt Jaros, an evangelical scholar, explores Dr. Ehrman's views on the distinction between the “original” and the “earliest available form” of a text. Read...