Subscribe to The Bart Ehrman Blog’s news feed.
Click on “Follow” and decide if you want to get news from The Bart Ehrman Blog via RSS, as email newsletter, via mobile or on your personal news page.
Subscription to The Bart Ehrman Blog comes without risk as you can unsubscribe instantly at any time.
You can also filter the feed to your needs via topics and keywords so that you only receive the news from The Bart Ehrman Blog which you are really interested in. Click on the blue “Filter” button below to get started.
Website title: The Bart Ehrman Blog
Is this your feed? Claim it!
For the first time in my life, I’m not really sure what I'm going to be arguing in the book I’m working on.. As I’ve said before, some months ago my publisher suggested I change course for the next book. Instead of what I had been focusing on for some months (a book on the [...]
The post
Now that I've started talking about the Hebrew Bible on the blog, I think maybe I'll keep talking about it for a bit. Let's start at the beginning. As in "In the Beginning..." Lots of people know that (some) fundamentalist Christians insist the beginning was when the world was created "6000 years ago." But most [...]
The post
Some blog readers have requested more posts on the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. I'm happy to comply! We begin with the foundational issue of which books are in each, in which order, and why are they so very different but also in some senses just the same. In my textbook The Bible: A Literary and Historical Introduction [...]
The post
In my previous post I began to argue that an economic system is not inherently good or evil. Like other things (wine, automobiles, guns, computer games), systems can be used in ways the produce very good consequences and truly awful ones. It’s a point I want to emphasize because most people I know outside of [...]
The post
It is dead easy to attack the fundamental principles and historical practices of capitalism on religious, and particularly Christian, grounds. A system that thrives on self-interest and personal gain, that leads to massive exploitation, to the subjection of entire indigenous populations to colonial powers, to enormous economic and social inequalities, that celebrates greed a...