Two items seemed particularly worth mentioning that came up in blogs recently. First, there are pre-publication materials from the book Iconography of Deities and Demons in the Ancient Near East online (HT AWOL). And T&T; Clark has made some sample material available from Paul’s Parallels available. Read more

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After discussing John chapter 9 (which is like one of those episodes in a TV series in which the actor playing the main character has some time off, and the show carries on without him) a student expressed interest in researching whether the reason for this unusual story, from which Jesus is mostly absent, might not be that it is autobiographical in some sense. It might not be that the author was healed in the manner depicted in the story,... Read more

The picture below suggests that even Jacob needs some assistance figuring out what is going on on LOST, and that Nikki Stafford’s book is a good place to turn to… Read more

If you’re mything missing discussing mythicism, John Loftus has taken up the torch of historical Jesus discussion, posting on whether Napoleon existed, as well as interacting with Vince Hart’s professed agnosticism about the existence of Jesus. So there are plenty of places you can continue the conversation, if you’re so inclined. I’m not sure the Napoleon comparison will be helpful to the discussion, however, since historians expect there to be much more evidence for a political ruler and military leader than for an... Read more

Over at DocArtz, Marc Oromaner continues his discussion of mythology in LOST, focusing in this post on the recent episode “Sundown” and themes from Genesis, including Adam, Eve, the serpent and temptation. Read more

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I received an announcement today about a forthcoming 4-volume work entitled Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus. To be published by E. J. Brill, this work will range a whopping 3300 pages. On the one hand, even though I’m not a prophet, I predict that no matter how vast, broad, deep or detailed this work may be, it will not satisfy most mythicists. But on the other hand, there is room for criticism of the scholarly publishers involved in... Read more

I was interested to read a review at the blog Broadcast Depth of a book entitled Putting Jesus in His Place written by Robert M. Bowman and J. Ed Komoszewski. The topic is the deity of Christ, and it apparently takes an approach outlined with the acronym “HANDS”: Honors: Jesus shares the honors due to God. Attributes: Jesus shares the attributes of God. Names: Jesus shares the names of God.Deeds: Jesus shares in the deeds that God does.Seat: Jesus shares the... Read more

Those interested in issues related to creation/evolution will be excited to learn that Michael Zimmerman has begun blogging for the Huffington Post. Take a look! Michael also mentioned in an e-mail that there are new sermons on the Clergy Letter Project site. Read more