'The Old Testament' (2014)… Michael D. Coogan: Deuteronomy and the Law of the King 11 Dec 2018December 10, 2018 Michael D. Coogan, The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, third edition (OUP, 2014), 183-184. The "law of the king" [Deuteronomy 17:14-20] seems to have been…
'The Case for Miracles'… Book Review: ‘The Case for Miracles’ by Lee Strobel, part 5a 10 Dec 2018December 9, 2018 In part one of my review of Lee Strobel’s The Case for Miracles I covered chapters 1-3, a section featuring Strobel’s interview of the skeptic Michael Shermer. In part two I…
'The Old Testament' (2014)… Michael D. Coogan: The Problem of Kadesh 6 Dec 2018November 27, 2018 Micheal D. Coogan, The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, third edition (OUP, 2014), 165-166. Identification of most of the places named [the Priestly portions of…
'The Old Testament' (2014)… Michael D. Coogan: The Most Complicated Book of the Pentateuch 4 Dec 2018November 26, 2018 Michael D. Coogan, The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, third edition (OUP, 2014), 160. Numbers is the most complicated book of the entire Pentateuch, in…
Apologists… Hopelessly Confused: Heather Schuldt Takes on Bart Ehrman, part 4 8 Nov 2018November 8, 2018 This is the fourth post in a series examining pop-apologist Heather Schuldt’s attempt to take down New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman. The three previous posts can be viewed here: Part…
'The Old Testament' (2014)… Michal D. Coogan: Dating the “Holiness Code” of Leviticus 8 Nov 2018November 5, 2018 Michael D. Coogan, The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, third edition (OUP, 2014), 153. Since the late nineteenth century, scholars have identified chapters 17-26 of…
'The Old Testament' (2014)… Michael D. Coogan: Leviticus and P 6 Nov 2018November 5, 2018 Michael D. Coogan, The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, third edition (OUP, 2014), 146-147. [T]he book of Leviticus is a composite work. This is confirmed…
Authorship… Hopelessly Confused: Heather Schuldt Takes on Bart Ehrman, part 1 2 Nov 2018November 3, 2018 Yesterday I posted a lengthy but necessary rebuttal to pop-apologist Heather Schuldt's bewildering piece on the Documentary Hypothesis. As I was poking around on her blog I noticed she had…
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…
Christian Apologetics… The Towering Arrogance of Cheap Apologetics: Heather Schuldt, Moses, and the Documentary Hypothesis 1 Nov 2018November 2, 2018 "In the fall of 2018, the problem of Wellhausen’s teaching and his followers came to my attention while working on my master’s degree." - Heather Schuldt on 10.28.181 When I…
