Antiochus IV… Evangelical Eisegesis: A Dalliance with Daniel, part 2 8 Dec 2018December 8, 2018 In this series we are exploring the claim made by pop-apologist SJ Thomason in her post "Did Daniel the Prophet Accurately Predict the Timing of Jesus' Death?"1 that the prophetic utterance…
Ancient History… Evangelical Eisegesis: A Dalliance with Daniel, part 1 2 Dec 2018November 30, 2018 "Fulfilled prophecies are what distinguish the Bible from other holy texts and are evidence of direct revelations by God." - SJ Thomason.1 In a bid to demonstrate the superiority of…
Ancient Israel… The Weekly Roundup – 11.2.18 2 Nov 2018November 3, 2018 Check these out, comrades! Twitter user @bibhistctxt continues his series over at his blog on ancient Israelite origins in "Israelite Origins: Late Date Exodus." The "late date" for the Exodus…
'Scientific Facts in the Bible' (2016)… Invasion of the Bible Snatchers: Ray Comfort’s ‘Scientific Facts in the Bible’ – Hanging on Nothing 22 Oct 2018October 14, 2018 In the previous installment of "Invasion of the Bible Snatchers" you were introduced to Ray Comfort and his book Scientific Facts in the Bible. As we saw in that post, his first…
'The Bible for Normal People' (podcast)… Pete Enns on Ecclesiastes 18 Jul 2018June 28, 2018 Old Testament scholar Pete Enns recently did a podcast episode on his The Bible for Normal People where he discussed the curious book of Ecclesiastes. Enns doesn't shy away from the…
ANE… Pixels and Papyrus on the Identity of Behemoth 5 Jul 2018June 22, 2018 I grew up a Young Earth Creationist who believed, among other things, that humans and dinosaurs walked the planet together. They were probably even on Noah's ark! Most if not…
1 Chronicles… Biblical Historical Context: A Good Reason to Pay Attention to the Geneaologies in Chronicles 4 Jul 2018July 4, 2018 As someone who recently got done reading 1-2 Chronicles, I can attest to the fact that some parts of it are unbelievably boring. This is especially true of the genealogies. I…
Book of Psalms… Musings on Mark: The Baptism of Jesus (2) – Baptized in the Spirit 9 May 2018May 9, 2018 "You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased." Mark 1:11b, NRSV In my first post covering Jesus' baptism I argued that the baptism Jesus underwent implied…
ANE… Evangelical Eisegesis: SJ Thomason and “God’s Promises,” part 1 19 Jan 2018 The last post I did on "Evangelical Eisegesis" covered the Twitter ramblings of Greg Locke, the veritable gift that keeps on giving. Today's post will cover a similar fountain of…
ANE… Pinched Off 1 Oct 2017September 10, 2017 A while back I was reading through the book of Job when I came across the words of Elihu, Job's younger friend, that he spoke to the suffering patriarch. The…
