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…
Atheism… The Weekly Roundup – 5.24.19 24 May 201914 May 2019 "For atheists, I would say your life is not meaningless even if you no longer believe you are for something like a hammer is for hammering nails- or even if…
Biblical Criticism… The Weekly Roundup – 5.17.19 17 May 201930 Apr 2019 "To be clear, some religious people evaluate their subjective experience as a piece of the evidential pie without taking this strong of a stance – but I want to address…
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…
Atheism… The Weekly Roundup – 4.12.19 12 Apr 20198 Apr 2019 "Mark, wanting to make a theological point, locates the event in a place whose name is associated with casting out demons – the language, as Marcus points out, does kinda support this. This…
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…
Biblical Scholarship… The Weekly Roundup – 3.1.19 1 Mar 201922 Feb 2019 "Israel did not ‘believe’ in dragons anymore than their neighbors did. When Israel says God defeated the dragon, they use this myth in two ways. Most of the time, as…
Biblical Scholars… The Weekly Roundup – 2.8.19 8 Feb 20197 Feb 2019 "The assertion by the opposing narrative that Elijah’s wife was a prostitute and later, that Elijah ate her son, does seem a little over the top and may indicate that…
