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…
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…
Ancient Israel… The Weekly Roundup – 4.5.19 5 Apr 20191 Apr 2019 "One would certainly not expect any literary reference to Christians or Christianity or Jesus himself in Roman authors of the first century. Christianity was simply a tiny (TINY) religious movement…
Ancient Israel… The Christian Defenders’ 5 Reasons: Archaeology and the Bible 18 Mar 201927 Apr 2019 In my experience, Christian apologetics is geared towards reinforcing the faithful, not convincing the skeptic. As I wrote last October, "It seems that pop-apologetics is nothing more than preaching to…
Biblical Scholarship… The Weekly Roundup – 3.1.19 1 Mar 201922 Feb 2019 "Israel did not ‘believe’ in dragons anymore than their neighbors did. When Israel says God defeated the dragon, they use this myth in two ways. Most of the time, as…
Atheism… The Weekly Roundup – 1.11.19 11 Jan 20194 Jan 2019 "What is at stake in that sad progression from Paul to anti-Paul? Why is it of importance that — at least with regard to slavery — radical Christian liberty is…
Ancient Egypt… The Weekly Roundup – 12.21.18 21 Dec 201820 Dec 2018 Merry Christmas and happy holidays to my readers. I'll see you in 2019! On December 31st I will have completed reading the Old Testament, New Testament, and Apocrypha in 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…
