The Most Ignored NT Verses: Matt 5.17-18

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. These words seem [...]

Quote of the Day – Daniel Dennett

A Scholar is just a library’s way of making more libraries.” – D.C. Dennett

Quote of the Day – Mark Goodacre

I was explaining to Mark that I had recently been asked to reinput Greek text from the unicode (which I had supplied) to SPIonic because this individual could not see the unicode script.  For those who don’t know, SPIonic is a Greek font that was put out by SBL’s publishing wing (now defunct) known as [...]

Word of the Year: Facepsalm!

James McGrath offers this nice new definition for us: Hemant Mehta shared a new word, but I would like to tweak the definition slightly for use in the biblioblogosphere. FACEPSALM: v. The act of facepalming as a result of the use or misuse of Scripture. When you encounter eisegesis, dilettantism, or anything else that makes [...]

Quote of the Day: R. Joseph Hoffmann

“And he asked them, ‘who do you say that I am?’ (Mk 8:28)  And the scholars began to write.” ‘On Not Finding the Historical Jesus’ in R. Joseph Hoffmann, ed., Sources of the Jesus Tradition: Separating History from Myth (2010)

Searching for Muses: The Bible, Plagues, and Arkansas

So how did someone find my blog today? They searched (quote): where in the kjv does it tell of dead birds falling from the sky and dead fish in the waters/ Well, for those wondering, the Bible doesn’t say anything about these two.  Why?  Because the books of the Bible were written a long time [...]

JFK on the Separation of Church and State

In memory of the man who was taken from us on this day in 1963….. (h/t to Rich Rodriguez) YouTube – JFK on the Separation of Church and State.

Athanasius on the Canon of Scripture

The irony! ἀλλὰ αἱρετικῶν ἐστιν ἐπίνοια, γραφόντων μὲν ὅτε θέλουσιν αὐτά· χαριζομένων δὲ καὶ προστιθέντων αὐτοῖς χρόνους· ἵνα ὡς παλαιὰ προφέροντες, πρόφασιν ἔχωσιν ἀπατᾶν ἐκ τούτου τοὺς ἀκεραίους. via Athanasius on the Canon of Scripture. Translation: But such are the invention of heretics, who indeed write them whenever they wish, bestowing upon them their approval, [...]

Quote of the Day – Justin Martyr

“For these words have not been fashionably arranged by me, nor embellished by human technique, but rather David sang them, Isaiah preached them, Zechariah heralded them, Moses recorded them. Do you recognize them Trypho? They are stored up in your Scriptures, or rather not in yours but in ours, for we are obedient to them, [...]

Dionysius of Halicarnassus writes…

– Epistula ad Pompeium