It is surely a clear sign that I am a language geek that when I see the word “Geez” written somewhere, the first thing I think of is not the shortened way of saying “Jesus” to express surprise or frustration… …but rather something that looks like this: Read more
BibleWorks is giving away two free copies of its excellent software to celebrate the program’s 20th birthday. Click through and enter to have a chance at winning! http://www.bibleworks.com/20contest/ Read more
A while back, Joseph Hoffmann announced a new project with the title “The Jesus Process.” It has now produced its first few offerings, in the form of the following online essays: Maurice Casey, “Mythicism: A Story of Bias, Incompetence and Falsehood” Stephanie Louise Fisher, “An Exhibition of Incompetence: Trickery, Dickery, Bayes” R. Joseph Hoffmann, “Controversy, Mythicism, and the Historical Jesus” See also Hoffmann’s very recent blog post on the use of Bayes’ Theorem by Richard Carrier and other mythicists, and... Read more
Here’s a lecture by Pamela Eisenbaum entitled “The Paul I Know: A Jewish Evaluation”: HT Bruce Prescott Read more
Here’s a song that I have always loved, from an album and a band most people have never heard of. I bought it back in 1988 when it came out, based only on the name of the band and the album cover, and have always been glad I did so. Here’s “Tomorrow Never Comes” by Prophet: If you like that, you’ll also enjoy this music video of their song “Sound of a Breaking Heart” which shows the band in all... Read more
Mike Kok has been blogging about the Secret Gospel of Mark lately, and he has reached the conclusion of his series and draws some balanced and persuasive conclusions as a result. Click through, take a look, and let me know what you think! Read more
SMBC has a great comic strip about “teaching the controversy.” Click through to read it. HT Hemant Mehta Read more
A very ancient papyrus document, featuring a psalm in Coptic which has been variously proposed to be Christian, Jewish, or Manichaean, is due to by auctioned by Christie’s. Alin Suciu has more information on his blog, as well as a call for some institution to purchase it and ensure that it remains available for scholarly study. Click through to read more. Read more
Just as there is a lot of great orchestral, symphonic and chamber music that deserves to be more widely know, there are a lot of songs by well-known (and not so well known) artists on their albums but which were never released as singles, and so are not as widely known as they perhaps deserve to be. Here’s one example: “The Working Hour” by Tears for Fears, from their album Songs from the Big Chair which included hits like “Everybody... Read more
I have focused in my listening and reading on actual episodes of the Doctor Who television series, or novelizations thereof. But I think the time has come for me to branch off into other audiobooks. You see, I’ve just learned that there is a story about the Doctor visiting the Council of Nicaea! Apparently Arius is depicted as the hero of the story… As someone interested in the intersection of religion and Doctor Who, I’m absolutely going to have to... Read more
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