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 – 2.1.19 1 Feb 201930 Jan 2019 "I propose the final edition of Genesis is the result of a similar process by an editor of the Holiness school of pre-exilic Israel, who combined and organized these various…
Biblical Scholarship… Musings on Mark: The Markan Jesus on Divorce 9 Jan 20194 Jan 2019 "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her...." - Jesus In Mark 10:1-12 we read of an encounter between "some Pharisees" and Jesus over the question of…
'The Case for Miracles'… Book Review: ‘The Case for Miracles’ by Lee Strobel, part 5a 10 Dec 201820 Jan 2019 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…
Ancient Israel… The Weekly Roundup – 11.2.18 2 Nov 20183 Nov 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 20182 Nov 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…
'Genesis 1 and the Creationism Debate' (2016)… Steven DiMattei: The Second Creation Account in Genesis 18 Oct 201815 Oct 2018 Steven DiMattei, Genesis 1 and the Creationism Debate: Being Honest to the Text, Its Author, and His Beliefs (Wipf & Stock, 2016), 42. From the opening verse of the second creation…
Uncategorized… Steven DiMattei: Creation ‘Ex Nihilo’ a Foreign Concept 16 Oct 201815 Oct 2018 Steven DiMattei, Genesis 1 and the Creationism Debate: Being Honest to the Text, Its Author, and His Beliefs (Wipf & Stock, 2016), 10-11. In general terms, then, the authors and cultures…
'The Bible for Normal People' (podcast)… Weekly Roundup – 9.28.18 28 Sep 201824 Sep 2018 Here's the Weekly Roundup! I've really enjoyed @StudyofChrist's series on the Matthean genealogy. I'm slowly getting caught up on his videos and recently watched "More Complicated Issues" which covers issues surrounding the…
'The Old Testament' (2014)… Michael D. Coogan: The Significance of the Rainbow in Genesis 27 Sep 201813 Sep 2018 Michael D. Coogan, The Old Testament: A Literary and Historical Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, third edition (OUP, 2014), 69. The sign of the covenant between God and Noah and every…
