Abolish ICE.
- Jordan Jones talks about recent archaeological work on Jericho, work that some have claimed corroborates biblical claims about its conquest by the Israelites. In short, it doesn’t.
- Jordan Jones also recently talked to Mark Goodacre about Q.
- Paul Clark has a view of Robert Price’s The Christ Myth Theory and Its Problems. From the final lines: “But it is a mistake for lay readers who want to learn about the origins of Christianity to take Price seriously. They should read Bart Ehrman, Paula Fredriksen or Geza Vermes instead.” I second that (especially Fredriksen).
- Robyn Walsh talks about resurrection accounts in antiquity besides what we find in the New Testament.
- The latest issue of ZAW is out and there are some open access articles you can read. Well, one of them requires a working knowledge of German. But Kishiya Hidaka has a piece on the curse on Canaan that looks interesting. (HT: Ekaterini G. Tsalampouni.)
- James McGrath considers a recent protest that interrupted a church service in Minneapolis over the egregious abuse perpetrated by Trump’s ICE in the light of Jesus’s “temple tantrum” from the Gospels. It’s refreshing to find Christians pushing back against the evil we’re seeing today, evil that is often perpetrated by those wearing crosses around their necks and waving dusty Bibles in the air.
- Dan McClellan responds to the idea that mitochondrial DNA affirms the Flood narrative from Genesis. Is it just me or are so many creationists just cringey?
- An update on 2026’s reading tally!
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Cool selection for the new round-up. The video on Jericho looked interesting in light of some of the recent claims that the historicity of the Joshua account was vindicated.
Thanks also for the link to the critique of Price’s take on Jesus mythicism (and another website from a thoughtful skeptic’s website to add to my favorites list.)
While I appreciate some of his literary criticism of the Gospels, Price’s persistent denial that there could be any historical figure behind the legends has probably hurt the cause of skepticism as much as the work of any apologist.
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