This story isn’t exactly contemporary news given that Ehrman penned his piece nearly four years ago. However, having enjoyed and engaged some of Ehrman’s thoughts presented in his works before, […]
As we saw in a short essay I wrote a while back, there are a few important criteria for establishing a high probability of a historical event or saying. These […]
Arguably the most important line of evidence pertaining to the earliness of the proclamation of a risen Jesus comes from one of Paul’s epistles in a very early tradition cited […]
If we look at what Jesus says in Matthews gospel, namely that “among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist” (11:11) we find […]
The nature of the resurrection itself is was what we’d call a high impact event. This is an important detail to make when it comes to how the resurrection memory […]
Keener has arguably set forth the lead academic investigation into the nature of supernatural miracles of healing. In his book, Miracles, he recounts how he discovered that hundreds of millions […]
1. Josephus Flavius. Josephus Flavius (37-101 AD), a 1st century historian who penned his work around 94 AD, is important for historians wishing to gain early insight into early Christianity. […]
I’ve wanted to pen this piece for a while since many people seem to have a lopsided conception of Jesus. I always think of the lyrics ‘Gentle Jesus meek and […]
No scholar in the fields of relevant expertise doubts that Jesus once existed as a historical figure. In fact Jesus is, for a 1st century figure, very well attested in […]
Consensus holds that John the Baptist performed a baptism on Jesus in the Jordan River. Jesus’ baptism and his crucifixion, according to James Dunn, “command almost universal assent” (1). Dunn […]
