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Latest Blog Entries

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1. (Part 4) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)” 
2. (Part 3) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)” 
3. (Part 2) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)” 
4. (Part 1) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)” 
5. Conclusion: The Trials and Death of Jesus
6. (2/2) Jesus the Angel: Christ Myth Theory
7. Jesus the Angel
8. A “Q” For All Seasons: How Sayings Attributed To Jesus Became The Story Of Jesus
9. Jesus Elements: To Be or Not To Be?
10. Open Your Eyes
11. Blogging Index for my Reflections on the 2025 New Insights into the New Testament Conference
12. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 7: Was Jesus Literate? A Second Lecture with Bart Ehrman
13. (2/2 Further thoughts on Ehrman’s Presentation) Reporting From the NINT New Testament 2025 Conference Part 6: A Core Teaching of Jesus. And Why His Followers Abandoned It with Bart Ehrman
14. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 6: A Core Teaching of Jesus. And Why His Followers Abandoned It with Bart Ehrman
15. (2/2) Halftime Show: Intermission Reflections at Ehrman’s NINT Conference
16. Halftime Show: Intermission Reflections at Ehrman’s NINT Conference
17. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 5: Turning the Tables on the ‘Purification’ of the Temple with Paula Fredriksen
18. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 4: Jesus and the Law with Joel Marcus
19. (Allison 2/2) Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 3: Did Jesus Really Do Miracles? with Dale Allison
20. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 3: Did Jesus Really Do Miracles? with Dale Allison
21. Jesus and the Law: Prep for the Joel Marcus Lecture
22. Jesus: A Proper Name or a Granted Name?
23. (Part 2/2) Come See Me on History Valley Podcast with Jacob Berman – All Things Paul! MY NOTES AND SLIDES FOR THE PRESENTATION
24. Let’s Discuss Heidegger!
25. Come See Me on History Valley Podcast with Jacob Berman! All Things Paul!
26. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 2: The Last Hours of Jesus: What Really Happened? With Helen Bond
27. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 1: The Missing Pieces in the Quest for the Historical Jesus with Prof Mark Goodacre
28. New Published Article! Link to “The Quest for the Historical Paul with Nina Livesey (part B)”
29. Heidegger and the History of Personhood: How Humanity Became Alienated from Itself
30. (INDEX) Heidegger’s Philosophical Encounters with the History of Philosophy
31. Proving Heidegger: A Case Study of Parousia in Plato’s Phaedo
32. (2/2) My Sorbonne Talk on Heidegger and Kant: Conclusion
33. My Sorbonne Talk on Heidegger and Kant: Causality
34. July/August Biblical Studies Carnival 2025
35. Last of My Paul Post Series: Paul and John
36. Resolving the Gethsemane Contradiction
37. The Corrupt Trial of Jesus and Paul
38. Lot’s Angels and Jesus as a Great Angel in Paul
39. Paul and the Churches: From Corinth to Rome
40. The Incarnation in the Prologue of the Gospel of John and Paul’s letters
41. 4 Article Series on Paul
42. Heidegger Circle: 2026 Central APA CFP
43. THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL PAUL (Conclusion Part 8/8: The Parallel Lives of Paul and Simon Magus)
44. THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL PAUL (Part 7/8: Paul and Salvation by Any Means Necessary)
45. THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL PAUL (Part 6/8: The Dog Who Stopped the War)
46. THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL PAUL (Part 5/8: Literary – Beyond the Historicism/Mythicism Debate)
47. THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL PAUL (Part 4/8: Paul and the Schools)
48. THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL PAUL (Part 3/8: The Coming Kingdom of God on Earth and the Unnecessary Jesus and Paul)
49. THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL PAUL (Part 2/8: Jesus, Paul, and Plutarch)
50. THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL PAUL (Part 1/8 with Prof Nina E. Livesey)