Bart stresses how missionaries who had never seen Jesus needed stories about him to spread the gospel.
An early Christian text, The Martyrdom of Polycarp, claims to be written by an eyewitness -- but can we be so sure? Read by...
Over the years I’ve said a lot about the New Testament, usually showing its manifold and various problems. But at most that’s half the...
In an ongoing discussion of the wrath of God, Dr. Ehrman shows how the purity expected of the Israelites led to the expulsion/destruction of...