{"id":19200,"date":"2013-11-18T07:57:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T12:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=19200"},"modified":"2013-11-18T07:57:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T12:57:26","slug":"bart-ehrman-and-craig-evans-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/11\/bart-ehrman-and-craig-evans-debate.html","title":{"rendered":"Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bart Ehrman &amp; Craig Evans 2012 Debate P1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ueRIdrlZsvs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/ehrmanblog.org\/video-ehrman-evans-2012-debate\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bart Ehrman<\/a> shared this video of a debate between himself and Craig Evans about whether the New Testament\u2019s depiction of Jesus is accurate.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bart Ehrman shared this video of a debate between himself and Craig Evans about whether the New Testament\u2019s depiction of Jesus is accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,67],"tags":[1023,1024,2258,2259,4646,5677,8064,10162],"class_list":["post-19200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-jesus","category-new-testament-bible","tag-bart-d-ehrman","tag-bart-ehrman","tag-craig-a-evans","tag-craig-evans","tag-historical","tag-jesus","tag-new-testament","tag-reliable-sources"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans Debate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bart Ehrman shared this video of a debate between himself and Craig Evans about whether the New Testament&#039;s depiction of Jesus is accurate.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/11\/bart-ehrman-and-craig-evans-debate.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans Debate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bart Ehrman shared this video of a debate between himself and Craig Evans about whether the New Testament&#039;s depiction of Jesus is accurate.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/11\/bart-ehrman-and-craig-evans-debate.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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