'Mark' (Paideia)… Musings on Mark: Mary Ann Beavis on the Parable of the Tenants 12 Dec 2018December 10, 2018 Mary Ann Beavis, Mark, Paideia Commentaries on the New Testament (Baker Academic, 2011), 175. In Mark, then, the parable [i.e. of the tenants; Mark 12:1-12] is a sort of Passion prediction…
'The Bible for Normal People' (podcast)… The Weekly Roundup – 12.7.18 7 Dec 2018December 7, 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)."…
Jesus… Musings on Mark: Jesus’ Origin Story in Mark 5 Dec 2018November 28, 2018 Every superhero has a back story, a tale about what made them the way they are. My favorite superhero is DC's Batman. What disturbing thing happened to him that made…
Amateur Exegete Version… Mark 1:29-34, AEV 3 Dec 2018November 30, 2018 Below is my translation of Mark 1:29-34, a pericope wherein Jesus has left the synagogue (cf. 1:21-28) and heads to the home of Simon and Andrew. Like the previous pericope,…
Gospels… The Synoptic Problem: The Two Gospel Hypothesis 1 Dec 2018November 30, 2018 https://youtu.be/h8hJRahL-gg
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 3 7 Nov 2018 This is the third post in a series examining pop-apologist Heather Schuldt's attempt to take down New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman. The two previous posts can be viewed here: Part…
'In the Company of Jesus'… Musings on Mark: Minor Markan Characters – The Centurion at the Cross 7 Nov 2018November 14, 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…
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… Mark 1:21-28, AEV 5 Nov 2018November 6, 2018 Below is my translation of Mark 1:21-28, a pericope wherein Jesus enters a synagogue in the city of Capernaum and ends up casting out an unclean spirit. This story in…
