Amateur Exegesis (podcast)… Amateur Exegesis – Episode 1: Something’s Off 22 Jun 201922 Jun 2019 The inaugural episode of my new podcast Amateur Exegesis has arrived!
Aramaic… The Weekly Roundup – 6.7.19 7 Jun 20195 Jun 2019 "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…
Biblical Scholarship… The Christian Defenders’ 5 Reasons: The Criterion of Embarassment 31 Mar 201923 Jun 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."…
'Misquoting Jesus'… Lost in the Weeds: SJ Thomason Takes on Bart Ehrman, part 1 9 Feb 201912 Feb 2019 To see all posts in this series, please refer to its index. Last year I wrote a five-part series on Heather Schuldt's terrible attempt at taking on biblical scholar Bart Ehrman.1 Now pop-apologist…
'Jesus Interrupted'… Jesus’ Death in Mark and Luke: A Response to Pop-Apologist Mike Winger on Bart Ehrman 23 Jan 201924 Jan 2019 It never ceases to amaze me the lengths to which the inerrancy crowd will go to in order to defend a position "the Bible" never even makes for itself. The…
Biblical Scholarship… On SJ Thomason’s Argument for Dating the Gospels Early 28 Dec 201829 Dec 2018 By and large the New Testament was written in the decades following the death of Jesus of Nazareth in 30 CE. The earliest writings came from a man by 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)."…
'The New Testament' (2016)… Bart D. Ehrman: Book Publishing in the Ancient World 4 Dec 201826 Nov 2018 Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, sixth edition (OUP, 2016), 178. When thinking about the relationship of the New Testament writings to one…
Gospels… The Synoptic Problem: The Two Gospel Hypothesis 1 Dec 201830 Nov 2018 https://youtu.be/h8hJRahL-gg
