Approximately 1800 years ago someone (a child or teenager) scrawled (in Greek) an insult into the plaster walls of Emperor Caligula's fo...

Released today is an interview I did with Jamie Tibke host of The Hardcore Humanities Podcast.  The interview can be found on Spotify and Ap...

While reading through 1 Clement in Greek, I came across an interesting phrase, "Therefore let us abandon empty and futile thoughts, a...

I have been slowly reading through Brian J Wright’s excellent new book “ Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus: A Window into Early Chri...

Celsus was a pagan philosopher who flourished in the last half of the second century. He was a brilliant opponent of Christianity who had i...

In a recent article in the Journal of Biblical Literature, Armin D. Baum published a response to Bart Ehrman's book, "Forgery and C...

In a previous post , the comments of Dr. Brent Nongbri in reference to the staurogram and its place in a third century manuscript were taken...

During the last few years there has been a pushback against some of the early dates posited for Christian New Testament papyri. Scholars suc...