I want to expand on some things I said in my last post . When somebody like Bart Ehrman refers to the unlikelihood that the average first-ce...

It's often suggested that the illiteracy or low level of literacy of the large majority of individuals in the ancient world is evidence ...

Two of the biggest misconceptions people have about Christmas issues are that there wasn't much interest in Jesus' childhood in the ...

This is germane to Bart Ehrman's contention that the traditional authorship of the NT is false due to widespread illiteracy: https://l...

https://baptist21.com/blog-posts/2018/triumph-christianitys-reading-practices-faulty-assumptions-swept-biblical-scholarship/

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/04/05/1522200113.abstract

One of the staple–or should I say, stale?–arguments for the historical unreliability of the Gospels is the claim that Jesus traditions und...

This is germane to the question of whether the culture that produced the Gospels was an essentially oral culture. Must the Gospels be the pr...

https://calvindude.org/dude/2015/09/24/evangelicals-hate-jesus/

Isn’t it amazing that God’s commands as reported by holy books just happen to reflect the views of the culture in which they were written?...

https://www.ibr-bbr.org/files/bbr/bbr19a01.pdf

From an atheist: http://keithburgess-jackson.typepad.com/blog/2013/12/the-bible.html

They will learn about the Ides of March. Unlike those who attend illiterate, multicultural public schools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...