Amateur Exegesis (podcast)… Amateur Exegesis – Episode 1: Something’s Off 22 Jun 201922 Jun 2019 The inaugural episode of my new podcast Amateur Exegesis has arrived!
Ancient Israel… The Weekly Roundup – 6.21.19 21 Jun 201919 Jun 2019 @andrewmarkhenry of the YouTube channel Religion for Breakfast recently published a short video on the number 666 that appears in Revelation 13:18. Following most scholars, Henry notes that the number…
Biblical Scholarship… The Weekly Roundup – 6.14.19 14 Jun 201913 Jun 2019 Candida Moss (University of Birmingham) wrote a piece back in March on Apollonius, the miracle-working son of God that is often compared to Jesus. In it Moss, a prolific writer…
Aramaic… The Weekly Roundup – 6.7.19 7 Jun 20195 Jun 2019 "When Jesus calls Herod Antipas a 'fox' (Luke 13:32), most modern European readers will automatically think this means he considered Herod to be particularly clever or craft....The same association would…
Biblical Scholarship… The Weekly Roundup – 5.31.19 31 May 20195 May 2019 "The 'Amalgam Jesus' idea boils down to little more than hand waving. It is a vague and grudging admission that there may be some historical kernels in the story, but…
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…
