Atheism… The Weekly Roundup – 5.24.19 24 May 201914 May 2019 "For atheists, I would say your life is not meaningless even if you no longer believe you are for something like a hammer is for hammering nails- or even if…
Apologists… The Death(s) of Judas 21 May 201921 May 2019 In light of a recent blog post by a certain pop-apologist,[1] I thought it might be appropriate to lay out a brief case for seeing the two accounts of Judas…
Biblical Criticism… The Weekly Roundup – 5.17.19 17 May 201930 Apr 2019 "To be clear, some religious people evaluate their subjective experience as a piece of the evidential pie without taking this strong of a stance – but I want to address…
Ancient Assyria… The Weekly Roundup – 5.10.19 10 May 201930 Apr 2019 "What would lead people to make all this stuff up – all of it – from scratch? Not just embroidering or adding to existing stories about an existing person, but…
Ancient Egypt… The Weekly Roundup – 5.3.19 3 May 201930 Apr 2019 It’s gotten all mixed up, you see, as it was bound to after thousands and thousands of years of dogma and tradition. Religion doesn’t spawn morality. Intelligence spawns morality,which inevitably gives…
Biblical Scholarship… The “Conservative Bible Project”: The Interplay of Ideology and Translation 2 May 201930 Apr 2019 In this post you will find two things: a paper and a presentation. The paper is entitled "The 'Conservative Bible Project': The Interplay of Ideology and Translation. Here is the…
'In the Company of Jesus'… Musings on Mark: Minor Markan Characters – Bartimaeus, the Blind Beggar 1 May 201930 Apr 2019 "Through the identification with Bartimaeus and subsequent minor characters, the reader is encouraged to move beyond faith in Jesus and his power toward a more faithful acceptance of the demands…
ANE… The Weekly Roundup – 4.26.19 26 Apr 201922 Apr 2019 "All translations of great works are of course no more than approximations of the original, in some places happy ones, in some necessarily imperfect. But respecting the sheer physicality of…
'The Gospel According to Mark' (NCBC)… Musings on Mark: Jesus and Wisdom 17 Apr 201912 Mar 2019 Marie Noonan Sabin, The Gospel According to Mark, New Collegeville Bible Commentary (Liturgical Press, 2006), 32. In chapter 2, Mark dramatizes the way that Jesus, like Wisdom, restores human beings to…
Atheism… The Weekly Roundup – 4.12.19 12 Apr 20198 Apr 2019 "Mark, wanting to make a theological point, locates the event in a place whose name is associated with casting out demons – the language, as Marcus points out, does kinda support this. This…
