Who Built the Jesus Family Tomb?

100,000 Views!

…and counting! My blog broke the 100,000 views mark! Time to celebrate!

Roundup of Biblioblogger Comments on the New Jacobovici Claims

I have collected below a list of snippets from various academics and bibliobloggers on the subject of James Tabor and Simcha Jacobovici’s ‘discovery’. ASOR First and foremost, everyone should check out the scholarly articles on the subject at the ASOR (American Schools of Oriental Research) blog. Eric Meyers writes in his review of the new [...]

2012 is Shaping Up to be the Year of Fakes, Frauds, and Sensationalism

First, we had the picture of the Markan manuscript fragment that has widely been debunked as a fake. Now we have a ‘new’ 1500-year-old Bible with what appears to be gold lettering that just seems all sorts of odd. And just today, wouldn’t you know, a month and some days away from Easter, a new [...]

Defining Jesus Agnosticism: It is Time for Representation

I am officially ceasing my series ‘Defining Mythicism’ and will now start, at long last, to focus on what I consider myself to be: a Jesus agnostic (that is someone who is agnostic on the question of historicity).   I realized that, for some time, the spectrum has only been at polar opposites.  The only options [...]

Mark Goodacre on the Markan Fragment

Mark Goodacre offers up some sage words on the Markan Fragment: As far as I am concerned, this settles the question.  So often we are faced with artifacts appearing on the antiquities market with unknown provenances, or vague tales about their being found in caves somewhere.  Not here.  The artifact is from no less a [...]

James McGrath, Neil Godfrey, and Mythicism: Once More Into the Fray

Let me preface this by stating clearly and directly that everyone, regardless of who you are or what you study, has a bias towards the evidence.  This includes me, this includes Godfrey, this includes James McGrath.  We all are approaching the evidence from a position of bias.  It is the goal of each of us–at [...]

What Will I Do When I Become a Professor?

Now Where Have I Seen This Before? Coincidence?

Homeschooling Woes–or Why People Who Aren’t Qualified to Teach Shouldn’t Teach

This conversation has been coming up a lot in social media due to Rick “Crazy” Santorum saying things like this: “In the nation’s past, most presidents home-schooled their children in the White House. Parents educated their children because it was their responsibility….Yes, the government can help, but the idea that the federal government should be [...]