'The New Testament' (2016)… Bart D. Ehrman: The Significance of John 9:22 6 Dec 2018November 27, 2018 Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, sixth edition (OUP, 2016), 187-188. This verse [i.e. John 9:22] is significant from a socio-historical perspective because…
Apologists… Hopelessly Confused: Heather Schuldt Takes on Bart Ehrman, part 5 9 Nov 2018November 9, 2018 This is the fifth and final post in a series examining pop-apologist Heather Schuldt’s attempt to take down New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman. The four previous posts can be viewed…
Apologists… Hopelessly Confused: Heather Schuldt Takes on Bart Ehrman, part 2 6 Nov 2018 In our first post we discussed Heather Schuldt's blog post "5 Examples Why Bart Ehrman Is Not a Gospel Expert."1 We addressed specifically issues concerning the dating of the Synoptic Gospels,…
Christian Scriptures… Some Thoughts on Carey Bryant’s “The Gospel of John as an Eyewitness Account” 29 Oct 2018October 24, 2018 Over at his blog Theology in Motion, Carey Bryant posted a piece entitled "The Gospel of John as an Eyewitness Account," summarizing why he thinks the Johannine Gospel is an eyewitness…
Atheism… Weekly Roundup – 10.5.18 5 Oct 2018October 3, 2018 Here's the Weekly Roundup! (Note: there will be no Roundup next Friday.) Over at bibleinterp.com there is an excerpt from John: Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators (Eerdmans, 2018) entitled "The Spiritual…
Gospel of John… Musings on Mark: Mark vs Matthew vs John on Jesus Walking on Water 3 Oct 2018October 3, 2018 One of the few stories shared by both the Synoptic Gospels and the Gospel of John is the story of Jesus walking upon water. (Well, almost all of the Synoptics…
'The New Testament as Literaure' (VSI)… Kyle Keefer: Reading John and Mark Together 20 Sep 2018September 4, 2018 Kyle Keefer, The New Testament As Literature: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2008), 108. Reading these two gospels [i.e. the Gospel of John and the Gospel of Mark] together presents a…
'The New Testament as Literaure' (VSI)… Kyle Keefer: John’s Portrayal of Jesus versus Mark’s 18 Sep 2018September 4, 2018 Kyle Keefer, The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2008), 107. In contrast to Mark's portrayal, John's Jesus seems strikingly stoic with regard to his death. In fact,…
Characters in Mark… Musings on Mark: Another Reason to Doubt Peter Was Behind Mark’s Gospel 12 Sep 2018September 12, 2018 In addition to my regular Bible reading schedule and my verse-by-verse translating of the Gospel of Mark, I've also been reading a Markan pericope a day each weekday. Today I…
'Scripting Jesus'… L. Michael White: The Gospel of John and the Breach with Judaism 26 Jul 2018July 4, 2018 L. Michael White, Scripting Jesus: The Gospels in Rewrite (HarperOne, 2010), 360. The Gospel of John thus represents a social situation of much greater separation of the Christian community from its Jewish…
