I often start my one-semester course on the Bible with the question “What is the Bible?” Even seemingly obvious answers – such as “It’s a book” – need to be qualified and corrected (it is in fact a collection of books and other kinds of literature). A couple of posts around the blogosphere relate to this subject, and how assumptions about what the Bible is affect the way they read it. Mystical Seeker links to and discusses an op-ed piece in... Read more

I recently watched the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans.It doesn’t attempt rigid fidelity either to the original or to Greek mythology, and so I won’t evaluate it in those terms. The movie in fact does interesting things with its source material, essentially turning a war of the gods that humans get caught up in, into a war of humans against the gods. To the extent that the gods in question express their wrath through floods, famines, lightning, and other... Read more

Steve Martin has posted what is likely to be his last post on his blog An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution. He has turned some of his blogging into an ebook, and recommends that those interested in continuing interaction on the topic turn to BioLogos – which today posted part 4 in a series on the Cambrian explosion. On a related note, The Panda’s Thumb shared some NCSE videos on evolution. Read more

Like a Child discusses a heartwrenching year of disentangling herself from fundamentalism.Terri discusses agnosticism and church attendance.Jim Burklo takes comfort in rituals.Carol Merritt shares thoughts on education, progressives and conservatives.C. J. O’Brien discusses what Christianity should be about.Charles Halton recommends changing your mind this year (including a ‘poem’ by Donald Rumsfeld!).Dănuţ Mănăstireanu shared a link to Pete Enns’ piece from back in November on the benefits of doubt for the life of faith.Scott Bailey doubts Harold Camping’s latest prediction about the... Read more

Rod of Alexandria points out that there are (at least) two NT Wrongs. In fact, I have known at least a few others. But it certainly leaves room for confusion. Can you impersonate a pseudonym? Read more

A third method of ranking biblioblogs was introduced recently by Daniel McClellan, who decided to ignore Alexa ranking and the Lacanian-Wrongian objective scale, and take a democratic approach, asking people to vote. The biblioblogosphere has spoken, and Exploring Our Matrix has been crowned the #1 biblioblog using this new method. Thank you to everyone who voted. Of course, it may be that two people voted for me, and one for everyone else, since Daniel said that the total number of... Read more

Diglotting has begun reviewing Michael Licona’s The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach. I too have a copy of the book on my shelf, waiting to be reviewed, and am looking forward to getting to it in the near future. Ari (on his blog of awesome) links to Craig Evans’ review of Robert Price’s Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition?. Here’s a snippet as a sample: Price…is eager, almost perniciously so, to find insoluble problems in... Read more

In a comment on a recent post, Stephen Douglas asked how one contacts NT Wrong, since his e-mail address seems to no longer work. Superheroes and spies have long faced this challenge, of being reachable and yet keeping their identity a secret. And so I thought it might be fun to see what clever ideas bibliobloggers might come up with for methods of reaching (or summoning) NT Wrong. I’ll let NT Wrong choose the “winner” if he is so inclined.... Read more

It is hard doing the December carnival, since many potential readers may wonder whether there is any point in reading blog posts from the previous year. But Joseph Kelly has put together a wonderful round-up of last month’s biblioblogging that is definitely worth a visit – even in 2011! Read more

To ring in 2011, Jeremy has posted the “real” biblioblog rankings for December 2010. It is so hard to decide which I like better – Jeremy’s, in which I ranked #3, or NT Wrong’s, in which I ranked #13 but higher than Jim West who ranked #14. Read more