Announcing "New Insights into the New Testament" 2024 Virtual Bible Conference!

[@SeekingTruth2023]

This seems soo very interesting. I wish I could take part. It is too expensive for me. But thank you so much, Dr. Ehrman 🤗 for all the information you make available online for free, too. I have read all your books and I learned so much. I was able to leave a Christian High Control Group who interprets the Bible without much historical or scriptural knowledge. Finally, with the help of your knowledge, which you explain so well for lay people like me, I was able to free myself mentally from organized religion. I am still very much interested in the bible and other related scriptures as literature. THANK YOU very much for all your work !! 😊👍

[@FlaviusBrosephus]

Very cool! Can't wait. Would also love to see Dr. M. David Litwa in a future lineup if possible.

[@apm77]

There is an issue with the sign-up process. After entering payment details, you only get a confirmation email *after* a couple of screens where you can either "upgrade" your order or else click "No thanks, please do not add this offer to my purchase", which appears in very small, low-contrast text. This is very unusual, and it is likely that a lot of people will close the browser window believing their registration is complete.

[@corinne7126]

Agree, great line up of speakers and very interesting topics but I cannot afford it.

[@khaleelorwhatever]

Tabor! I still need to get the previous one but I'm gonna get this lecture I think. I also just bought Tabor's book on Paul & Jesus

[@oniondip_420]

Will you be featuring the speakers for preview interviews/videos like you had last year? Not sure if I’ll be able to sign up for the actual conference but I’d be very interested to hear from Drs Walsh and Tabor especially, but also the new speakers a lot. Even if they’re not the full conference presentations it would be nice to hear from them outside the paywall

[@williams.1980]

this question/comment is not necessarily related to this video, but I recently found you on the Emma show talking about things that I am interested in. does anybody bring up the parallels with socrates and Jesus story? I mean the fact that he is forced to commit suicide or crucified basically for talking to the people with ideas that the establishment didn't like? what were they saying? was socrates talking about salvation? about how to live? was Jesus's world Hellenized for hundreds of years? did they read and write Greek? were they both concerned with the mind/heart? also another area of interest I have is the many stories, maybe from Egypt or elsewhere that seem to be previous echoes of the jesus resurrection story. I became fascinated with the studies and lectures of Joseph campbell a long time ago and a couple decades later he campbell seems to be such a unicorn. you don't see many people who specialize like him. he is almost a school unto himself IMO. as far as the Jungian angle mixed with the very mortal need for story telling and myth and understanding the mystery of life and the ways of surviving. how much of the old testament god related or inspired by the Zarathustra and the captivity in Persia? How much of the old testament is political propaganda and a kind of liberation/population control dogma. How else do you claim the Gilgamesh flood story as your own miracle reset story?

[@danlee9293]

Not sure whether this kind of conference is warranted. You can get latest published reading materials each speakers online and reading them would be enough. A lot of people don't read anymore and seem lost their critical reading ability. Bart says the same thing over and over again, yet never seems to improve his methods or update his criteria for generating historical narratives.