“Nearly all critical scholars agree at least on those points about the historical Jesus,” Bart D. Ehrman wrote, even as the ...

Jesus taught a different kind of altruism, the altruism that is not based only on those socially and biologically related to ...

“One of the most certain facts of history is that Jesus was crucified on orders of the Roman prefect of Judea [Pontius Pilate],” scholar Bart Ehrman wrote, a line often cited because it captures an ...

Bart D. Ehrman, Craig A. Evans, and Robert B. Stewart. Westminster John Knox, $25 trade paper (120p) ISBN 978-0-664-26585-4 Stewart (The Reliability of the New Testament), professor at New Orleans ...

Through his words and actions, Jesus of Nazareth excited expectations that he was (or would be) the Messiah. That Jesus inspired this hope likely led the Roman authorities to crucify him. Jesus didn’t ...

The Gospels, memory, and oral tradition. Bart Ehrman has written his book Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior for ...

“I was dreamin’ when I wrote this,” Prince once observed. “Forgive me if it goes astray.” That’s quite the preemptive flex. Do you approve of what follows in “1999”? Lions in pockets? Everybody having ...