'The New Testament' (2016)… Shaily Patel: Postcolonial Criticism 11 Dec 201810 Dec 2018 Shaily Patel, "Excursus: Methods of Ideological Criticism," in Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, sixth edition (OUP, 2016), 192. Postcolonial criticism emphasizes the…
Antiochus IV… Evangelical Eisegesis: A Dalliance with Daniel, part 2 8 Dec 20188 Dec 2018 In this series we are exploring the claim made by pop-apologist SJ Thomason in her post "Did Daniel the Prophet Accurately Predict the Timing of Jesus' Death?"1 that the prophetic utterance…
Ancient History… Evangelical Eisegesis: A Dalliance with Daniel, part 1 2 Dec 201817 Dec 2018 "Fulfilled prophecies are what distinguish the Bible from other holy texts and are evidence of direct revelations by God." - SJ Thomason.1 In a bid to demonstrate the superiority of…
Authorship… Hopelessly Confused: Heather Schuldt Takes on Bart Ehrman, part 1 2 Nov 20183 Nov 2018 Yesterday I posted a lengthy but necessary rebuttal to pop-apologist Heather Schuldt's bewildering piece on the Documentary Hypothesis. As I was poking around on her blog I noticed she had…
'The New Testament' (2016)… Bart D. Ehrman: Defining “Greco-Roman Biography” 4 Oct 201825 Sep 2018 Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, sixth edition (OUP, 2016), 99-100. If I were to attempt a definition of the Greco-Roman biography, then, it…
'The Old Testament' (2014)… Michael D. Coogan: The Quest for Historicity of the Patriarchs 4 Oct 201825 Sep 2018 Michael D. Coogan, The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, third edition (OUP, 2014), 89. The further removed biblical writers are from the events they describe,…
'The New Testament' (2016)… Bart D. Ehrman: What Are the Gospels? 2 Oct 201825 Sep 2018 Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, sixth edition (OUP, 2016), 97. What kind of literature is a Gospel? Or, to put it somewhat…
'The New Testament' (2016)… Bart Ehrman: Religion in the Ancient World 13 Sep 201828 Aug 2018 Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, sixth edition (OUP, 2016), 49-50. For most ancient persons, religion was not the way to guarantee an…
