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Latest Blog Entries

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1. Holiday Post Series: Divine/Demonic Possession and the Heart of Christianity
2. Breaking the Demonic Spell: A Twofold Interpretation of Sin in Christian Origins
3. (CONCLUSION) What’s the Point of the Bible: What is Faith?  It’s not What you Think
4. (2/2) What’s the Point of the Bible: Causing Anagnorisis in the Reader
5. What’s the Point of the Bible?
6. New Published Article: The Quest for the Historical Paul with Nina Livesey (Part 3/4: Paul and the Gospel of John)
7. The Meaning of Life Through Death
8. AFTERWORD: Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)”
9. EVALUATION: Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)” 
10. (Part 7) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)” – Hermeneutics/Deconstruction and Triangulation: Did Jesus Exist?
11. (Part 6) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)”
12. (Part 5) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)”
13. (Part 4) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)” 
14. (Part 3) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)” 
15. (Part 2) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)” 
16. (Part 1) Blogging Through Richard Carrier’s new book “The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025)” 
17. Conclusion: The Trials and Death of Jesus
18. (2/2) Jesus the Angel: Christ Myth Theory
19. Jesus the Angel
20. A “Q” For All Seasons: How Sayings Attributed To Jesus Became The Story Of Jesus
21. Jesus Elements: To Be or Not To Be?
22. Open Your Eyes
23. Blogging Index for my Reflections on the 2025 New Insights into the New Testament Conference
24. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 7: Was Jesus Literate? A Second Lecture with Bart Ehrman
25. (2/2 Further thoughts on Ehrman’s Presentation) Reporting From the NINT New Testament 2025 Conference Part 6: A Core Teaching of Jesus. And Why His Followers Abandoned It with Bart Ehrman
26. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 6: A Core Teaching of Jesus. And Why His Followers Abandoned It with Bart Ehrman
27. (2/2) Halftime Show: Intermission Reflections at Ehrman’s NINT Conference
28. Halftime Show: Intermission Reflections at Ehrman’s NINT Conference
29. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 5: Turning the Tables on the ‘Purification’ of the Temple with Paula Fredriksen
30. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 4: Jesus and the Law with Joel Marcus
31. (Allison 2/2) Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 3: Did Jesus Really Do Miracles? with Dale Allison
32. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 3: Did Jesus Really Do Miracles? with Dale Allison
33. Jesus and the Law: Prep for the Joel Marcus Lecture
34. Jesus: A Proper Name or a Granted Name?
35. (Part 2/2) Come See Me on History Valley Podcast with Jacob Berman – All Things Paul! MY NOTES AND SLIDES FOR THE PRESENTATION
36. Let’s Discuss Heidegger!
37. Come See Me on History Valley Podcast with Jacob Berman! All Things Paul!
38. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 2: The Last Hours of Jesus: What Really Happened? With Helen Bond
39. Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 1: The Missing Pieces in the Quest for the Historical Jesus with Prof Mark Goodacre
40. New Published Article! Link to “The Quest for the Historical Paul with Nina Livesey (part B)”
41. Heidegger and the History of Personhood: How Humanity Became Alienated from Itself
42. (INDEX) Heidegger’s Philosophical Encounters with the History of Philosophy
43. Proving Heidegger: A Case Study of Parousia in Plato’s Phaedo
44. (2/2) My Sorbonne Talk on Heidegger and Kant: Conclusion
45. My Sorbonne Talk on Heidegger and Kant: Causality
46. July/August Biblical Studies Carnival 2025
47. Last of My Paul Post Series: Paul and John
48. Resolving the Gethsemane Contradiction
49. The Corrupt Trial of Jesus and Paul
50. Lot’s Angels and Jesus as a Great Angel in Paul