'Doctrine Impossible' (2017)… Book Review: ‘Doctrine Impossible’ by Steven Tiger 22 Apr 201822 Apr 2018 "The essential conflict is not rationality versus faith but rationality versus dogmatism." - Steven Tiger Steven Tiger, who wrote for over thirty years in the complex world of medical literature,…
Christian Scriptures… One Helluva Ride: The Triumphal Entry in the Gospel of Matthew 15 Apr 201815 Apr 2018 I was recently in a Twitter discussion with Twitter users @colinburgess and @bibhistctxt who had commented on this post I made: https://twitter.com/amateurexegete/status/977901538579447809 Thus began a back and forth which culminated in…
1 Timothy… The Mystery τῆς εὐσεβείας 8 Apr 20188 Apr 2018 A few weeks ago I sent out the following tweet. https://twitter.com/amateurexegete/status/962330998573879296 I had posted this in response to an apparently now deleted tweet from the "Ponytail Preacher" which claimed that…
Atheism… Can an Atheist Celebrate Easter? 1 Apr 201825 Mar 2018 "He is not here; for he has been raised, as he said." (Matthew 28:6a, NRSV) --------------------------- Today is April 1, 2018, a day that is simultaneously my wedding anniversary, April…
Aramaic… Was Jesus Magical? Larry Hurtado on “Semitic Language in Mark” 25 Feb 201815 Feb 2018 Larry Hurtado, a biblical scholar based out of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, recently wrote a blog post addressing the question of whether some of the Semitic terminology used…
Biblical Scholarship… Musings on Mark: Who Wrote the Gospel of Mark? 18 Feb 201830 Mar 2018 My personal library has close to a thousand volumes. No, it isn't much and it used to be a bit bigger but it gets the job done. Let's say I…
Apologists… Some Thoughts on SJ Thomason’s Response to Elisha Ben Abuya 11 Feb 20185 Feb 2018 In December Twitter user Elisha Ben Abuya posted to his blog a piece on Isaiah 53. In it he lays out his case that the passage which Christians attribute to…
Christian Scriptures… Musings on Mark: Abiathar the High Priest 4 Feb 201829 Jan 2018 πῶς εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπὶ Ἀβιαθὰρ ἀρχιερέως καὶ τοὺς ἄρτους τῆς προθέσεως ἔφαγεν, οὓς οὐκ ἔξεστιν φαγεῖν εἰ μὴ τοὺς ἱερεῖς, καὶ ἔδωκεν καὶ τοῖς σὺν αὐτῷ…
Blog Recommendation… A Blog You Should Follow 28 Jan 201827 Jan 2018 This blog, for better or for worse, is about biblical texts. My aim is to point my few readers to resources that illuminate biblical texts and help them understand them…
Apologists… An Index to My Response to SJ Thomason on “God’s Promises” 19 Jan 2018 Today I posted seven different pieces responding to the work of SJ Thomason and her blog post entitled "Babylon Will Never Be Inhabited." This post will serve as an index…
