Thanks to Phil Long (host of last month’s carnival) for posting a reminder about the next Biblical Studies Carnival, which will be held at the blog ἐνθύμησις. Click through for details on how to submit posts. Read more
Thanks to Phil Long (host of last month’s carnival) for posting a reminder about the next Biblical Studies Carnival, which will be held at the blog ἐνθύμησις. Click through for details on how to submit posts. Read more
Apparently it isn't only Ewoks that turned C3P0 into a deity. Read more
Loren Rosson has an interesting blog post on the use of the criterion of embarrassment in a discussion of the historical existence of Muhammad. For those interested in the application of such a criterion to the historical figure of Jesus (as many readers of this blog are), this post will be of great interest! Of related interest, F. E. Peters uses some of the classic criteria in his book about Jesus and Muhammad. And there is a book about the... Read more
Jeff Carter made this spoof movie poster: Read more
The episode “Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS” has a lot of contrived dangers and resolutions. But in the process, it gives us a nice tour of the longest running character on the show (we saw the TARDIS slightly earlier than we first encountered the Doctor), and also carries us closer to the end of the season and the possible revelation of the Doctor's name. Spoilers ahead. So when the breaking rods started coming through the walls, I couldn't... Read more
The blog God of Evolution posted the above response to Ken Ham. Much more succinct than my own! Read more
Steve Caruso shared an image related to his work on the Mandaean Book of John project – this image illustrating a scribe’s “indecisiveness” about what to write, as it unfolded in an era before erasers: Click through to read more about it, and to see Steve’s color-coded explanation of the letters. It is a good reminder that scribes were human. Is there anyone who has never ended up with a mushed mess like this as they tried to write a... Read more
There have been a number of articles and blog posts in recent days related to the burial of Jesus in general, and the claim that a tomb in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem is the place where Jesus was buried. Here are the relevant links to three recent articles in The Bible and Interpretation: James Tabor wrote an article, “The Tombs at Talpiot: Overview of ‘The Jesus Discovery'” Mark Goodacre shared a link to his article “The Jesus Discovery? A Skeptic’s Perspective”... Read more
Ken Ham has posted a reaction on Facebook to an image I shared on my blog yesterday (you can read the comments from his cronies there). I’ll share the text of his Facebook post here and then discuss it: Come on James McGrath, do you really think stooping to such lows befits a professor at an academic institution? James McGrath is an Associate Professor in the Religion and Philosophy department at Butler University, Indiana. He has written a number of... Read more
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