“One would certainly not expect any literary reference to Christians or Christianity or Jesus himself in Roman authors of the first century. Christianity was simply a tiny (TINY) religious movement that no one had heard of. Most Romans would not even have heard the… Continue Reading “The Weekly Roundup – 4.5.19”
Category: Ancient Israel, Atheism, Bart Ehrman, Biblical Scholarship, Canaanite Pantheon, Canaanites, Divine Hiddenness, Elijah, Historical Jesus, Jesus, Mark 2, Weekly Roundup
“The assertion by the opposing narrative that Elijah’s wife was a prostitute and later, that Elijah ate her son, does seem a little over the top and may indicate that the opposing narrative itself was propaganda and was responding to an even earlier narrative.… Continue Reading “The Weekly Roundup – 2.8.19”
Category: Biblical Scholars, Biblical Scholarship, Biblical Studies Carnival, Deuteronomic History, Elijah, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Gerd Luedemann, Isaiah, Jesus' Resurrection, Mira Scriptura (podcast), Paul, Weekly Roundup
καὶ ἦν ὁ Ἰωάννης ἐνδεδυμένος τρίχας καμήλου καὶ ζώνην δερματίνην περὶ τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐσθίων ἀκρίδας καὶ μέλι ἄγριον. Mark 1:6 I have a memory of ten-year old me riding on my bike in my neighborhood and accidentally inhaling a fly. For some… Continue Reading “Musings on Mark: John the Locust Eater”
Category: Characters in the Christian Scriptures, Characters in the Hebrew Bible, Christian Scriptures, Elijah, John the Baptist, Malachi, Malachi 3, Malachi 4, Malachi 4:5-6, Mark 1:6, Mark 9, Mark 9:11-13, Musings on Mark