Bible

June 2017

June 15, 2017
One of the comments added to the last post asked about sources that might help...

December 2016

December 19, 2016
I've put up my review of Mark Smith, Where the Gods Are: Spatial Dimensions of...

January 2016

January 26, 2016
Dear Sir / Ma'am: I was interested to read in your edition of Thursday, January...

September 2015

September 27, 2015
Introduction The fact that New Testament (NT) language appears throughout the Book of Mormon (BM)...

July 2015

July 23, 2015
The Revelation volume in the BYUNTC series is back in the news, so I thought...

January 2015

January 04, 2015
I was blogging a bit over with Benjamin the Scribe, but didn’t get all of...

December 2014

December 14, 2014
The story of the 144,000 who stand with the Lamb on Mt. Zion in Rev...
December 08, 2014
This seems to be the year for commentaries on Revelation. And although there are a...

May 2014

May 30, 2014
The open letter recently delivered by LDS church spokesman Michael Otterson to a variety of...
May 28, 2014
In the spirit of the 10 tidbits series at FPR, I offer (for once!) a...
May 05, 2014
The increasingly common use of “literally” to mean something emphatic (but not literal) has provided...

April 2014

April 25, 2014
Bill Hamblin has done a great service in providing a detailed outsider’s critique, repeating some...

March 2014

March 25, 2014
A basic first step in grasping the meaning of a biblical text as it may...
March 09, 2014
  About last Friday or so I was sitting under my rock reading from Ehrman’s...

June 2013

June 03, 2013
My ears perked up when I heard the news that Mauro Perani, professor of Hebrew...

March 2013

March 19, 2013
Let me just say upfront that I don’t have a problem in theory with the...
March 05, 2013
In case you haven't seen it, take a break from Wheat and Tares Apologizing and...

February 2013

February 25, 2013
It may come as a surprise to some that there are texts from ancient Israel,...
February 18, 2013
I recently ran across a hypothesis promulgated anew by Ben Witherington III that attempts to...
February 11, 2013
From the time I first came to understand the nature of  pseudepigrapha, I felt comfortable...

September 2012

September 06, 2012
“Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them;...
September 03, 2012
And so another Labor Day comes, bringing the end to summer.  May the next summer...

August 2012

August 15, 2012
As I have casually wandered around the BoM this summer looking at how it uses...
August 13, 2012
When last we looked in on how the BoM used something of Paul’s from First...
August 10, 2012
This is one of those instances of intertextuality where what’s interesting is what’s missing. At...
August 07, 2012
This expression, which seems pretty strange to moderns, is used a surprising number of times...

July 2012

July 25, 2012
1. Although this discourse opens by naming the disciples as the audience, at its conclusion...
July 23, 2012
1. Although commonly referred to as the "Ten Commandments," in the Hebrew Bible itself they are...
July 13, 2012
Closing out the fifth chapter of Mosiah is an exhortation to righteous living followed by...
July 12, 2012
Tucked away near the end of the BoM is a description of Christ as “the...
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