Lots of interesting MLK-day links, several of which connect Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. himself with Biblical studies and other aspects of the study of antiquity. Pete Bekins links to an essay Martin Luther King wrote for a course on the Old Testament while a student. And Nick Norelli evaluates the author of a book on the theology of King and Tutu to be a modalist.
Matthew Malcolm quotes Albert Schweitzer’s evaluation of why mythicism is implausible. Much time has passed, but mythicists are doing no better at addressing his concern – although, as Schweitzer himself predicted, that hasn’t stopped the viewpoint from being periodically revived.
John Byron looks at a modern instance of redaction criticism – the editing history of the Wikipedia page about Jesus. John Gardner links to an article about why you still cannot trust Wikipedia. Brad Matthies talks about digital literacy and evaluating sources.
Chris Keith asks whether there will be another Martin Hengel.
Matt Montonini suspects that some churches fear their members going to seminary because they expect that education will lead to criticism of their own dubious beliefs and practices.
Via Jim West and AIG Busted, this video of music from ancient Ugarit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viMbnj_Ei2A?fs=1Brooke Lester has begun a video series for an immersion course in Hebrew.
Arni Zachariassen shares and discusses BioLogos’ recent statement, while Jerry Coyne thinks that BioLogos is doomed to fail because it cannot persuade the likes of fundamentalist dinosaurs like Ken Ham and Al Mohler.
Several blogs discuss academic reviews that ignore the express purpose of the book being reviewed.
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