Jeffrey Small, Please Stay Away from the Bible

Seriously, he shouldn’t be writing about it.  Small once again attempts to sell his books by writing articles for HuffPo about the Bible.   In his article he lists reasons why ‘most modern scholars’ reject a literal reading of the Bible and why they reject reading it as history.  But he is off in his explanations [...]

Why the Criterion of Embarrassment is Inadequate

This is precise my point and one I have said over and over.  This is why the criterion of embarrassment fails to meet even a cursory examination.  I thank Mark Goodacre for highlighting it so well, and so concisely: I am writing a piece at the moment on the criterion of multiple attestation in Historical [...]

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