Many reviews of HJGB and HGBJ are now available. Over at Grace for Sinners, Jennifer Guo reviews HJGB and HGBJ. Over at Crux Sola, Nijay Gupta reviews Ehrman’s book here and here and then HGBJ here and here. Andrew Sullivan reviews both books here. Gerrit Dawson reviews HGBJ and reports a near-miracle: ” I was so happy to see that a near miracle has occurred: in our local Barnes and Noble, right next to Ehrman’s book on the shelf is the reply: this lovely,... Read more

Over at the St. Mellitus website, Chris Tilling has a short video about his part in How God Became Jesus and why Christians should read Bart Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God. Read more

Stanley E. Porter How We Got the New Testament: Text, Transmission, Translation Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2013. Available at Amazon.com Stan Porter’s book on the origins of the NT is based on a series of lectures delivered at Acadia Divinity College in 2008. In sum, Porter deals with three areas: The text of the NT, the transmission of the NT text, and the translation of the NT. In chapter one, Porter argues that the goal of textual criticism should be... Read more

In the latest issue of BBR (24.1 [2014]: 57-73), Robert Gundry has a critical review of N.T. Wright’s How God Became King, here’s the blurb: During his public ministry, Jesus taught extensively in words and deeds about the kingdom of God. IN How God Became King, N.T. Wright weds this material with Jesus’ self-sacrificial death to argue that God’s kingdom was also established by those words an deeds and, above all, by that death rather than by force of arms. Growing out... Read more

Mike will attest to this. About once a year or so I email him and say something like, “Mike, I don’t know if I should continue to be your blog mate. I’ve not blogged in so long. And I feel guilty for not contributing to our blog. Maybe I should give it up.” Every time he has told me, “No worries! Blog when you can. I understand”. I sometimes remind him that when he invited me to join him a... Read more

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In the recent issue of BBR (24.1, pp. 57-73), Bob Gundry published a critique of Tom Wright’s very popular book How God Became King called “An Exegetical and Biblical Theological Evaluation of N.T. Wright’s How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels.  Many of course will know this book. It is typical of the excellent prose and accessible stuff that we’ve come to expect from Tom’s popular writing. The book’s central thesis is that God’s kingdom came by... Read more

In my Knowledge of God course, I set two of my student the task of creating a short video on “Is the Bible Inerrant, Infallible, or Whatever?” Well, they did a cracking good job, and here are the results: Read more

Over at FaithStreet.com, Craig Evans writes on Fundamentalist Arguments Against Fundamentalism. No surprises here at to who he has in mind! Bart Ehrman is arguing like a fundamentalist. It is an all-or-nothing approach. If the Bible is truly inspired (and therefore trustworthy), it must be free from discrepancies. But this is not how most seasoned scholars think, including evangelicals. Nor was it the way early Christians thought. Read more

I have to say that Stephen Colbert is my favourite American comedian and is the best source for American news. In fact, the other night, I had a dream that I wrote a book called, “Killing Colbert.” Yes, I write books in my sleep! Any way, Relevant Magazine has a great piece listing the moments on his show where Colbert seems to get serious talking about his faith. You can also see Colbert defend Jesus’ divinity against Ehrman in a... Read more