Blogging about the Talpiot tombs and the historical Jesus blends into other topics that come up in particular during the week before Easter. And so a range of those intersecting subjects appear in posts to which I link below. Mark Goodacre highlights some successes in getting corrections made to information on the Jesus Discovery web site. The Discovery Channel issued a press release. And here are a couple of videos from the press conference: The Washington Post has a piece... Read more
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Jesus mythicism is akin to someone saying that because there is no Santa Claus, it makes the most sense to say that there wasn’t a historical bishop Nicholas of Myra. It seems as though some are afraid that if one concedes the existence of the historical figure, you are accommodating or leaving an open door for the myth. But that simply isn’t true. In fact, historical study of the history behind legends and myths, when such exists, is a far... Read more
Mark Goodacre had a busier blogging day than we’ve seen from him in a long time, discussing both the evidence that ossuaries in Talpiot tomb B (the “patio tomb”) had been moved around, and seeming discrepancies between information from James Tabor and Simcha Jacobovici on the one hand, and James Charlesworth on the other. Bob Cargill blogged about and made a video about digitally-manipulated fish. UPDATE: He also addressed the appeals to James Charlesworth in support of particular interpretations of... Read more
I hope I am prejudiced to value human beings over moral or theological principles. When Jesus was caught breaking the Law by gathering grain on the sabbath, Jesus said to his accusers, “The sabbath was made for humankind, not humankind for the sabbath” (Mark 2:27). In a similar way, I suspect that the Bible and moral principles are made for human beings, and not the other way around. — From the post “Reading Gagnon: Two More Prejudices” by Scot Miller... Read more
I discovered a very serious issue in one of my classes today. Perhaps it is inappropriate for a professor to share something of this nature on their blog, but with a problem this serious, I’m at a loss how to address it most effectively, and so I am turning to the collective wisdom of the internet for advice. With one exception, every single student in my freshman class said they have never seen Star Trek. Not a single episode. Never.... Read more
The Doctor Who episode “Dragonfire” is probably the first Sylvester McCoy episode I saw – at least, it is one of the few that I remembered distinctly (if not entirely accurately). The episode introduces Ace and says farewell to Mel as the Doctor’s companion. The amusing premise is that a criminal names Kane has been banished to a frozen world, known as “Ice World,” which has since also become the location of a shopping mall, focusing presumably on frozen food,... Read more
Rachel Held Evans shared these on her blog. The graphic details of the Bible meet the cute figurines that have become so famous… And let’s not forget the Precious Moments Akedah which I’ve shared here before… Read more
Erich Wolfgang Korngold is one of my favorite composers. Here is a piece that is rare inasmuch as he wrote little choral music and little religious music: his Passover Psalm, Op.30. Read more
The episode of Fringe “Nothing As It Seems” explores the consequence of having Peter and Olivia with memories from their timeline now poised to deal with cases which parallel ones that, for them, had already happened. While the differences between the timelines result in not all details being the same, the similarities allow for them to address the cases with an element of what could be considered precognition. It also gives them, and us as viewers, the opportunity to see... Read more
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