Classics Content Coming Soon

Yes, yes, I know.  You’re confused.  It is okay.  I will explain. Since I am (finally) starting in a Classics program in the fall, I will be turning over some of the focus of this blog to the discussion of Classical civilization, Greek, and Latin.  While I will not relinquish my status as a biblioblogger [...]

Larry Hurtado Tackles Academic Injustice and Shameful Cowardice

His excellent discussion starts with this: Over the last few months I had more reports of academics being let go by Christian-aligned academic institutions, and for what seem to be very minor differences of view on any one of a variety of relatively minor matters. These are degree-granting institutions, supposedly committed to academic excellence (or [...]

Ehrman Responds to Carrier: An Assessment

Bart Ehrman has responded to Carrier’s partial review.  You can read the full response here.  Overall my impression of Ehrman’s response was that it was weak.  But he does make one or two interesting points.  More on that in a moment. First, let me stress that I think Carrier can at times be very blunt [...]

A Request for Easter Thoughts

As Easter approaches there will of course be an innumerable amount of garbage proclaiming to be ‘fact’ about the death and resurrection of Jesus.   Over years past, I have largely ignored this time of year; but this year I’d like to do something different.  I want to hear from you, my readers, and also my [...]

New Roundup on the ‘Jesus Discovery’ (AKA the ‘Jonah and the Whale’ ossuary)

Since my last roundup, much has transpired. It seems that there were some predispositions towards finding ‘Jonah and the Whale’ on an ossuary.  Both Mark Goodacre and David Meadows (via Goodacre) found evidence of this and have posted some compelling information.  If this is the case, one should not be so surprised by the ‘discovery’ [...]

Some Considerations About the Iconography on the Ossuary

There has been a lot of various interpretations of the ‘fish’ on the new ossuary in Talpiyot B.  Absalom’s tomb was the primary response initially; this was due to the misrepresentation of the image (in photos the alignment of the image was sideways to make it appear as though the object were swimming) by various [...]

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 [...]

More Thoughts on the Markan Manuscript Fragment

This picture has been making headlines around the Biblioblogosphere and academic community boards on Yahoo.com: James McGrath brings up the fact that this picture was first circulated on D.M. Murdock’s message boards.  Interestingly, however, the fragment has (surprisingly) been transcribed correctly by her (though her eisegesis of the text is terrible and her correlations are [...]

Odds and Ends in the Community

Good morning readers (or whatever time of day it is for you, good day)!  Here are some interesting what’s-what around the community: Over at Bible and Interpretation, there is an article highlighted from 2009 (one of the most visited articles on the site last week) by Bob Cargill on why Christians should adopt the BCE/CE [...]

Looking Forward to February

Many of my readers may have noticed my absence in the blogosphere this past month.  My apologies; a lot has been happening that has kept me away from blogging and I’d like to just address them here with some caveats. January has been a a hellish month for me.  It started right away and hasn’t [...]