A number of you have asked me to respond to Lydia McGrew’s lengthy critique of my book Why Are There Differences in the Gospels? What We Can Learn From Ancient Biography. Now that I’ve been able to complete some of my projects, I’ve had time to read McGrew’s book and will now respond. To begin, I want to explain what led me to the approach I’ve adopted. In the latter half of the 20th century, Read below.

Christian apologist Jonathan McLatchie recently sparked some controversy when on Facebook he posted a thread saying, “Modern Biblical scholarship is in dire need of a reformation. Case in point [McLatchie provides a link to a video conversation between agnostic New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman and Christian New Testament scholar Craig Evans].” In the video, Ehrman asks Evans if he thinks Jesus actually uttered the “I am . . .” statements in John’s Gospel. Evans answered that