From Doctor Who Fan Art on Tumblr via Dawn Shea on Pinterest Read more
From Doctor Who Fan Art on Tumblr via Dawn Shea on Pinterest Read more
A slightly early and very bizarre happy St. Patrick’s Day wish to you, courtesy of Bizarro. HT Targuman Read more
Another Patheos blogger asked us to share our best posts from our blogs. I honestly don’t know which one(s) I would pick. When you have been blogging as long as I have, and as often as I have, posts from several years ago can be a dim memory. So I thought I would ask regular readers: Which post or posts would you choose as the best from this blog’s history? Feel free to say why you picked the one you... Read more
Here’s my round-up combining the latest from the blogosphere on two key archaeological topics that are featuring prominently in news and blogs: the Talpiot tombs and their ossuaries, and the conclusion of the James ossuary forgery trial. James Tabor makes an attempt at satire, but I don’t think it works very well. He also draws attention to the release of new photos, and clarifies that some images previously circulated were created based on multiple photos taken from a variety of... Read more
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Sam Alexander has posted a review of my book The Burial of Jesus on his blog {Take and Read}. It is appreciative and yet asks some important questions, most pointedly, what comes after the sort of historical-critical demolition of widely held views, and of certainty in general. What, in short, should Christianity look like in the aftermath of historical study? There are those who resist historical criticism in a vain and misguided effort to keep their faith unaffected. It doesn’t... Read more
Having been available for some time for Kindle, I just noticed today that the version of my book The Burial of Jesus: What Does History Have to Do with Faith? is available for Nook, at the same low price of $2.99. Read more
This Speed Bump cartoon got me thinking. The cartoon depicts what might be called an exclusivistic and egotistical ethos: we’ve succeeded, now let’s keep the advantages of doing so to ourselves. Exclusivism is found in religion, in nationalism, in economics, indeed in all areas of life. But perhaps it is worth observing that neither the story of life on this planet told by science, nor earlier ones that humans created which are now embedded in a variety of sacred and... Read more
The news is circulating that the judge in the James ossuary forgery case found the defendants Oded Golan and Robert Deutsch not guilty. Do note the nature of this conclusion. It is not a scientific, archaeological or epigraphic assessment of the authenticity of inauthenticity of the ossuary or some or all of the inscription on it. It is an assessment of the evidence for specific persons having forged it. To simply continue to assume it is inauthentic, or to assume... Read more
The biblioblogs have been abuzz with discussions about the Talpiot tombs. Here are some highlights: Bob Cargill, Mark Goodacre, Steve Caruso, and Tom Verenna have all been drawing attention to digitally-altered images which have apparently since been substituted with others on the Jesus Discovery web site. This follows on from Mark’s post yesterday about discrepancies and anomalies among the digital images. Juan V. Fernández de la Gala makes the case that it is not a fish but an amphora on... Read more
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