'Scientific Facts in the Bible' (2016)… Invasion of the Bible Snatchers: Ray Comfort’s ‘Scientific Facts in the Bible’ – Invisible Material 21 Jan 201920 Jan 2019 To see other posts in this series, please go to the series' page. In the last installment of "Invasion of the Bible Snatchers" we investigated Ray Comfort's claim that the…
(Re)Considering Christianity (series)… (Re)Considering Christianity: A Skeptic Looks at the Christian Religion – Introduction, part 3 17 Dec 201820 Jan 2019 "God wants us to stop obsessing about the future and trust that He holds the future. We should put aside the passivity and the perfectionism and the question for perfect…
American History… The Weekly Roundup – 12.14.18 14 Dec 201810 Dec 2018 "I think we have to allow that John’s Gospel differs from the Synoptic Gospels in this fundamental respect: it is not an attempt to remember the historical Jesus; it is…
'The New Testament' (2016)… Shaily Patel: Queer Criticism 13 Dec 201810 Dec 2018 Shaily Patel, "Excursus: Methods of Ideological Criticism," in Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction To the Early Christian Writings, sixth edition (OUP, 2016), 193. Like feminist criticism, queer…
'The Old Testament' (2014)… Michael D. Coogan: The Deuteronomic School 13 Dec 201810 Dec 2018 Michael D. Coogan, The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, third edition (OUP, 2014), 186. The Deuteronomic school, as we have seen, had connections with both…
'Mark' (Paideia)… Musings on Mark: Mary Ann Beavis on the Parable of the Tenants 12 Dec 201810 Dec 2018 Mary Ann Beavis, Mark, Paideia Commentaries on the New Testament (Baker Academic, 2011), 175. In Mark, then, the parable [i.e. of the tenants; Mark 12:1-12] is a sort of Passion prediction…
'The New Testament' (2016)… Shaily Patel: Postcolonial Criticism 11 Dec 201810 Dec 2018 Shaily Patel, "Excursus: Methods of Ideological Criticism," in Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, sixth edition (OUP, 2016), 192. Postcolonial criticism emphasizes the…
'The Old Testament' (2014)… Michael D. Coogan: Deuteronomy and the Law of the King 11 Dec 201810 Dec 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 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…
