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Mark Goodacre had a busier blogging<\/a> day than we\u2019ve seen from him in a long time, discussing both the evidence that ossuaries in Talpiot tomb B (the \u201cpatio tomb\u201d) had been moved around<\/a>, and seeming discrepancies between information from James Tabor and Simcha Jacobovici on the one hand, and James Charlesworth on the other<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bob Cargill blogged about and made a video about digitally-manipulated fish<\/a>. UPDATE: He also addressed the appeals to James Charlesworth in support of particular interpretations of the inscription and other evidence from the Talpiot tombs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mentioning the Talpiot tombs, Mike Kok segues from there to catacombs in Rome and then the question of whether Peter ever went there<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Larry Hurtado talked about more likely candidates to be the earliest Christian graffiti<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tripp Fuller does a podcast with Bart Ehrman about his latest book, Did Jesus Exist?<\/em><\/a> I\u2019m delighted to say that I\u2019ve started reading the book and will be blogging about it in the near future myself.<\/p>\n

Jerry Coyne posted a second time on Ehrman\u2019s book, still not having read it. But he sagely suspends judgment rather than weigh in on a topic about which he has no expertise<\/a>. He is largely reacting to a Huffington Post<\/em> piece the headline of which describes Ehrman as \u201csympathetic\u201d towards Jesus \u2013 which is very odd indeed<\/a> if one reads the rest of the article.<\/p>\n

John Byron and<\/a> Don Rogers also blogged about Bart Ehrman\u2019s book on Jesus mythicism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brian LePort got the impression that Bart Ehrman is omnipresent<\/a>. I suspect that he may be mistaking him for someone else\u2026<\/p>\n

In almost entirely unrelated news, Skeptic<\/em> featured a different sort of \u201cJesus fish.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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