"Did Jesus plan to start a new religion, then? No." - Matthew Thiessen
What Jairus Said to Jesus: One Attempt to Reconcile the Matthean and Markan Accounts and Why It Doesn’t Work
Yes, Matthew's version of the raising of Jairus' daughter contradicts Mark's account of it.
Helen Bond: The Markan Jesus’ Timelessness
Helen K. Bond, The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark's Gospel (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2020), 165.
Helen Bond: The “Social and Cultural Ramifications” of a Writing a Bios of Jesus
Helen K. Bond, The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark's Gospel (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2020), 92.
Joel Marcus: Neither a Deity Masquerading as Human nor Divinized at the Transfiguration
Joel Marcus, Mark 8-16: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, The Anchor Yale Bible (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), 1117-1118.
Evangelical (Atheist) Eisegesis: ‘The Skeptics Annotated Bible’ (#3)
Part 3 of an ongoing series covering the 'Skeptics Annotated Bible' by Steve Wells.
Helen Bond: Hazardous Reading of Ancient Texts
Helen K. Bond, The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark's Gospel (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2020), 8.
Musings on Mark: Can the Markan Jesus Read?
A brief consideration of Spencer McDaniel's view that the Jesus of Mark knew how to read.
A Conversation with Kameron Mazurek on the ‘Religious Learning’ Podcast
This past week I was interviewed by Kameron Mazurek of the Religious Learning podcast on topics mainly related to the Gospel of Mark and the first season of my podcast Amateur Exegesis. Mazurek is a great interviewer and his podcast, which is still in its infancy, deserves a wider listening audience. So, have a listen... Continue Reading →
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