Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

I take a somewhat different approach. My working hypothesis is that the Gospel of Mark, the earliest written, is an allegory of the history of Israel from the Essenic point of view written in response to the fall of Jerusalem and designed to encourage the reader to keep the faith -- the Jewish faith...

Ehrman asks rhetorically whether an inquirer would not rather have a dentist work on his teeth, as an analogy for consulting scholars like Ehrman who affirm the historicity of Jesus. My answer is that, yes, I would like to have a dentist work on my teeth, but I would prefer to have one who knew some...