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…
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…
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…
'The Gospel of Mark' (Sacra Pagina)… Musings on Mark: Mark and the Cynic Tradition 3 Apr 20193 Apr 2019 John R. Donahue and Daniel J. Harrington, The Gospel of Mark, Sacra Pagina, vol. 2 (The Liturgical Press, 2002), 193. If Mark reacts in any way to the Cynic tradition it…
'Misquoting Jesus'… Lost in the Weeds: SJ Thomason Takes on Bart Ehrman, part 1 9 Feb 201912 Feb 2019 To see all posts in this series, please refer to its index. Last year I wrote a five-part series on Heather Schuldt's terrible attempt at taking on biblical scholar Bart Ehrman.1 Now pop-apologist…
'Jesus Interrupted'… Jesus’ Death in Mark and Luke: A Response to Pop-Apologist Mike Winger on Bart Ehrman 23 Jan 201924 Jan 2019 It never ceases to amaze me the lengths to which the inerrancy crowd will go to in order to defend a position "the Bible" never even makes for itself. The…
"The Son of Man"… Bart D. Ehrman: Jesus as the “Son of Man” 18 Oct 201815 Oct 2018 Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, sixth edition (OUP, 2016), 113. In the New Testament Gospels, Jesus used the term "son of man"…
Gospels… Robert Guelich on The Gospels as Portraits of Jesus 1 Aug 201814 Jul 2018 Every weekday I do about forty-five minutes of reading in the Greek text of Mark's Gospel. After I finish reading through a pericope there are two main commentaries I go…
