Ancient Israel… The Weekly Roundup – 6.21.19 21 Jun 201919 Jun 2019 @andrewmarkhenry of the YouTube channel Religion for Breakfast recently published a short video on the number 666 that appears in Revelation 13:18. Following most scholars, Henry notes that the number…
Biblical Scholarship… The Weekly Roundup – 6.14.19 14 Jun 201913 Jun 2019 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…
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 Criticism… The Weekly Roundup – 5.17.19 17 May 201930 Apr 2019 "To be clear, some religious people evaluate their subjective experience as a piece of the evidential pie without taking this strong of a stance – but I want to address…
Ancient Assyria… The Weekly Roundup – 5.10.19 10 May 201930 Apr 2019 "What would lead people to make all this stuff up – all of it – from scratch? Not just embroidering or adding to existing stories about an existing person, but…
Ancient Egypt… The Weekly Roundup – 5.3.19 3 May 201930 Apr 2019 It’s gotten all mixed up, you see, as it was bound to after thousands and thousands of years of dogma and tradition. Religion doesn’t spawn morality. Intelligence spawns morality,which inevitably gives…
ANE… The Weekly Roundup – 4.26.19 26 Apr 201922 Apr 2019 "All translations of great works are of course no more than approximations of the original, in some places happy ones, in some necessarily imperfect. But respecting the sheer physicality of…
Atheism… The Weekly Roundup – 4.12.19 12 Apr 20198 Apr 2019 "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…
'Scientific Facts in the Bible' (2016)… Invasion of the Bible Snatchers: Ray Comfort’s ‘Scientific Facts in the Bible’ – Hand Washing and Running Water 8 Apr 201914 Mar 2019 "When the one with a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, he shall count seven days for his cleansing: he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in fresh…
