“This is the only life that we know we get: use it in the best way you know how. Don’t wait around for a bonus life that may never come.” -@Paulogia0 @Paulogia0 published a video entitled “Why I am Not a Christian” over at… Continue Reading “The Weekly Roundup – 9.20.19”
Category: 1 Timothy, Atheism, Bart Ehrman, Biblical Scholars, Biblical Scholarship, Candida Moss, Genesis, Hebrew Scriptures, Historical Jesus, Jesus, Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Pseudo-Paul, Religious ViolenceTags: 1 Timothy, Bart Ehrman, biblical violence, Candida Moss, forgery in the ancient world, Genesis 1, Literacy of Jesus, Paulogia0
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 and scholar, observes that many in the ancient Mediterannean were considered the son of this or… Continue Reading “The Weekly Roundup – 6.14.19”
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“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 naturally have occurred to a Greek reader in the 1st century. In Greek literature,… Continue Reading “The Weekly Roundup – 6.7.19”
Category: Aramaic, Biblical Scholars, Biblical Scholarship, Biblical Studies Carnival, Candida Moss, Christian History, Deuteronomic History, Gospels, Hebrew, Irenaeus, Jan Joosten, Jesus, Koine Greek, Moses, Weekly Roundup
“Mark, wanting to make a theological point, locates the event in a place whose name is associated with casting out demons – the language, as Marcus points out, does kinda support this. This strengthens the exorcism theme of the pericope– seems legit. A few years later, Matthew, using Mark… Continue Reading “The Weekly Roundup – 4.12.19”
Category: Atheism, Biblical Scholarship, Candida Moss, Characters in Mark, Isaiah, Mira Scriptura (podcast), Philosophy of Religion, Textual Criticism, The Gospel of Mark, Theism, Tzemah Yoreh, Weekly Roundup
“I think we have to allow that John’s Gospel differs from the Synoptic Gospels in this fundamental respect: it is not an attempt to remember the historical Jesus; it is an attempt to restate the significance of the historical Jesus from a later theological… Continue Reading “The Weekly Roundup – 12.14.18”
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