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Bart Ehrman
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Bart Ehrman's personal blog at bartehrman.com covers history and philosophy. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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New Testament scholar, Dr. Bart Ehrman's, homepage. Bart is an author, speaker, consultant, online course creator, and professor emeritus at UNC Chapel Hill.
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Modern academic scholarship paints a very complex picture: https://www.bartehrman.com/hell-in-the-bible/ I would argue that reading random quotes without context can be misleading. Unless of course you believe in a univocal, consistent and divinely inspired bible - which is a fairly extreme position to take.
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on “Pope Francis has died”Although I think that most fact checking is biased, I am less concerned of bias, as long as people have a means and an ability to determine the truth of the thing. My concern then isn't with where bias exists, or in what direction, but instead with what the effect of fact checking results in. I think it would probably be a healthier outcome for truth learning if a "fact checker", whether it be a person or a machine,…
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on “White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note”What a nicely done narrative presentation and container (ArcGIS etc) of travel. Immersive 360 degree pictures might be nice to add. There's a 1990 board game about Paul's travels with a similar map, but with less narrative detail, it's more about immersion and play. Tom Vasel wrote a review: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/100649/review-journeys-of-p... Campaign variant: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/127941/miss…
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on “Interactive map of Paul's first century travels in Roman world”https://www.bartehrman.com/contradictions-in-the-bible/
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on “The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home (2017)”This is a common theory but it's almost certainly wrong. https://www.bartehrman.com/why-is-christmas-on-december-25th... > However, upon closer examination, this theory encounters several historical and contextual challenges. One of the key issues is the lack of any contemporary evidence from the early Christian period directly linking the choice of December 25th for Christmas to pagan festivals. > But several decad…
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on “Why is Good Friday called Good Friday?”More accurately; Because the Bible is not a single book but a complex arrangement of at least 66 books (Roman Catholic Bibles include another seven books that Protestants do not recognize) written over many years by multiple authors, the question concerning versions can be complicated. One major division is stems from Old Testament versions; Roman Catholic Bibles are all derived from the Septuagint version (3rd Cent…
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on “I changed my personality in six weeks”