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 Scholarship… The Weekly Roundup – 5.31.19 31 May 20195 May 2019 "The 'Amalgam Jesus' idea boils down to little more than hand waving. It is a vague and grudging admission that there may be some historical kernels in the story, but…
Apologists… The Death(s) of Judas 21 May 201921 May 2019 In light of a recent blog post by a certain pop-apologist,[1] I thought it might be appropriate to lay out a brief case for seeing the two accounts of Judas…
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…
'In the Company of Jesus'… Musings on Mark: Minor Markan Characters – Bartimaeus, the Blind Beggar 1 May 201930 Apr 2019 "Through the identification with Bartimaeus and subsequent minor characters, the reader is encouraged to move beyond faith in Jesus and his power toward a more faithful acceptance of the demands…
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…
'The Gospel According to Mark' (NCBC)… Musings on Mark: Jesus and Wisdom 17 Apr 201912 Mar 2019 Marie Noonan Sabin, The Gospel According to Mark, New Collegeville Bible Commentary (Liturgical Press, 2006), 32. In chapter 2, Mark dramatizes the way that Jesus, like Wisdom, restores human beings to…
Ancient Israel… The Weekly Roundup – 4.5.19 5 Apr 20191 Apr 2019 "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…
