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Bart D. Ehrman

American biblical scholar (born 1955)

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Dec 18, 2025
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Did Jesus exist

Consensus among mainstream historians and biblical scholars is that a historical person called Jesus of Nazareth did live in first‑century Palestine; this judgment rests on multiple early Christian an...

Nov 2, 2025
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Is Jesus a real person that lived on earth ?

Most historians and New Testament scholars conclude that who lived in first‑century Judea, though they disagree sharply about the details of his life and the theological claims made about him; this co...

Nov 8, 2025
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How reliable are the four Gospels as historical accounts of Jesus' life?

Scholars agree Jesus of Nazareth existed, but the four canonical Gospels’ reliability as straightforward historical biographies is contested: defenders argue they preserve eyewitness testimony and anc...

Dec 20, 2025

How do scholars evaluate the historicity of the New Testament accounts of Jesus' resurrection?

Scholars separate the question of what the New Testament reports from the question of whether those reports describe historical events; most agree on a small cluster of facts—Jesus’ crucifixion, an ea...

Nov 7, 2025

Are new testament reliable

The available analyses converge on two firm points: , and . Debates focus on textual transmission quality, the genre and sources of the Gospels, and which episodes can be treated as historically certa...

Nov 7, 2025

Is jesus actually god

The question “Is Jesus actually God?” divides historians, theologians and faith communities into competing conclusions rooted in different types of evidence: biblical texts and creeds, early church wr...

Jan 19, 2026

Was Jesus real?

Mainstream historians conclude that a historical figure called Jesus of Nazareth very likely existed as a 1st‑century Jewish teacher who was baptized and later executed by Roman authorities, a positio...

Dec 7, 2025

How do major gnostic texts like the Gospel of Thomas differ theologically from the New Testament gospels?

The Gospel of Thomas is a noncanonical collection of 114 sayings that differs sharply from the narrative, apostolic, and resurrection-centered gospels in the New Testament; scholars date Thomas mostly...