early christianity

I think the NT texts arose over time out of a Gnostic/Jewish/pagan millieu after the First Jewish War. I think they represent new theology that arose in response to the Jewish/Hebrew distress over the Fall of the Temple; as a result of various groups of the Diapora being placed in pagan or...

If a book or series of new books/scrolls were discovered today, how reluctant would Protestants, Catholics, etc. be to add this stuff on to the Bible? As if the knowledge of what period the Bible was finally assembled wasn't troubling enough, what if some new ancient gospel or epistle dated to...

Having failed to catch Ehrman when he gave a lecture on this book at my university, I read the book. Excellent stuff. A rather quick read at 190 pages, heavily footnoted. Ehrman goes into the modern history of this document, from it's discovery in Egypt in the 70s, through the hands of...

Bart Ehrman, author of Misquoting Jesus, Lost Christianities, and others will be at the university here Tuesday, 4-17-07. Definitely plan to attend; I found Lost Christianities to be excellent. It'll be interesting to hear his take on "Judas". For those not familiar with the fellow, he started...