Isaiah… 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…
Biblical Scholarship… The Christian Defenders’ 5 Reasons: The Criterion of Embarassment 31 Mar 20191 Apr 2019 For other posts in this series, please visit the series' page. The Christian Defenders' second reason for believing that the Bible is true is that the Bible contains "embarrassing details."…
Atheism… The Weekly Roundup – 2.22.19 22 Feb 201916 Feb 2019 "The stories of the ancestors of the Israelites do not come from any one period but developed over time. It is best to see the ancestors as composite characters." -…
'The New Testament: A Literary History'… Musings on Mark: Artfully Structured 13 Feb 201911 Feb 2019 Gerd Theissen, The New Testament: A Literary History (Fortress Press, 2012), 43-44. The Gospel of Mark is artfully structured. It consists of individual pericopes, each of which makes its own point.…
'The Covenant'… A Conversation with @MiraScriptura 14 Jan 201914 Jan 2019 Today over on the Mira Scriptura podcast is a conversation I had with @MiraScriptura covering a wide range of topics including my journey from Christianity to atheism, views on the Documentary…
'The New Testament' (2016)… Shaily Patel: Queer Criticism 13 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), 193. Like feminist criticism, queer…
'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…
'The Bible for Normal People' (podcast)… The Weekly Roundup – 12.7.18 7 Dec 20187 Dec 2018 "The death of the messiah [in Mark's Gospel], at the hour of the cross, is the advent of the υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, who has come with great power and glory (13:26)."…
'In the Company of Jesus'… Musings on Mark: Minor Markan Characters – The Centurion at the Cross 7 Nov 201814 Nov 2018 In her excellent book In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Mark's Gospel,1 New Testament scholar Elizabeth Struthers Malbon uses the tools of narrative criticism2 to analyze the story we find in the…
'The New Testament' (2016)… Bart D. Ehrman: Redaction Criticism 23 Oct 201822 Oct 2018 Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, sixth edition (OUP, 2016), 120-121. A "redactor" is someone who edits a text; "redaction criticism" is the study…
