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Latest Blog Entries

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1. Is There Free Will? Edouard Tahmizian Interviews Richard Carrier on Freethinker Podcast
2. Holiday Post Series: Divine/Demonic Possession and the Heart of Christianity
3. Breaking the Demonic Spell: A Twofold Interpretation of Sin in Christian Origins
4. (CONCLUSION) What’s the Point of the Bible: What is Faith?  It’s not What you Think
5. (2/2) What’s the Point of the Bible: Causing Anagnorisis in the Reader
6. What’s the Point of the Bible?
7. New Published Article: The Quest for the Historical Paul with Nina Livesey (Part 3/4: Paul and the Gospel of John)
8. The Meaning of Life Through Death
9. AFTERWORD: Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)”
10. EVALUATION: Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)” 
11. (Part 7) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)” – Hermeneutics/Deconstruction and Triangulation: Did Jesus Exist?
12. (Part 6) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)”
13. (Part 5) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)”
14. (Part 4) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)” 
15. (Part 3) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)” 
16. (Part 2) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)” 
17. (Part 1) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)” 
18. Conclusion: The Trials and Death of Jesus
19. (2/2) Jesus the Angel: Christ Myth Theory
20. Jesus the Angel
21. A “Q” For All Seasons: How Sayings Attributed To Jesus Became The Story Of Jesus
22. Jesus Elements: To Be or Not To Be?
23. Open Your Eyes
24. Blogging Index for my Reflections on the 2025 New Insights into the New Testament Conference
25. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 7: Was Jesus Literate? A Second Lecture with Bart Ehrman
26. (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
27. 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
28. (2/2) Halftime Show: Intermission Reflections at Ehrman’s NINT Conference
29. Halftime Show: Intermission Reflections at Ehrman’s NINT Conference
30. 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
31. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 4: Jesus and the Law with Joel Marcus
32. (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
33. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 3: Did Jesus Really Do Miracles? with Dale Allison
34. Jesus and the Law: Prep for the Joel Marcus Lecture
35. Jesus: A Proper Name or a Granted Name?
36. (Part 2/2) Come See Me on History Valley Podcast with Jacob Berman – All Things Paul! MY NOTES AND SLIDES FOR THE PRESENTATION
37. Let’s Discuss Heidegger!
38. Come See Me on History Valley Podcast with Jacob Berman! All Things Paul!
39. 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
40. 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
41. New Published Article! Link to “The Quest for the Historical Paul with Nina Livesey (part B)”
42. Heidegger and the History of Personhood: How Humanity Became Alienated from Itself
43. (INDEX) Heidegger’s Philosophical Encounters with the History of Philosophy
44. Proving Heidegger: A Case Study of Parousia in Plato’s Phaedo
45. (2/2) My Sorbonne Talk on Heidegger and Kant: Conclusion
46. My Sorbonne Talk on Heidegger and Kant: Causality
47. July/August Biblical Studies Carnival 2025
48. Last of My Paul Post Series: Paul and John
49. Resolving the Gethsemane Contradiction
50. The Corrupt Trial of Jesus and Paul