Scot McKnight also jumped into the fray<\/a> on the subject of conservative and liberal bias in academic Biblical scholarship. While acknowledging such bias does exist, Scot also provides a helpful warning that many will cry \u201cbias\u201d simply because it is easier than acknowledging that your application and\/or your scholarship was simply not good enough. And most recently (so far) Tony Jones<\/a> has joined in the conversation on this topic.<\/p>\n Jim West objected<\/a> to one point in Ken\u2019s post, asserting that the New Testament authors did indeed care about the context of quotations they used from the Jewish Scriptures. Jim also provides a photographic illustration<\/a> of the subject of my recent article<\/a>: conservative willingness to rewrite the Bible for their own ends. Ben Witherington blogged about the nativity stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ken Schenck also quotes Davids quoting Bauckham on pseudepigraphy<\/a>. Josh Mann offers a tribute to Colin Hemer<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Edge magazine (HT New Scientist<\/a>) asks leading scientists what discoveries or inventions that will change everything<\/a> they expect they may see in their lifetimes. Might we witness a new Axial Age<\/a>? Find simple life<\/a> elsewhere in the solar system or even intelligent life<\/a> from further away? The answers are interesting, but the question itself is valuable. And as Jim Davila<\/a> points out, today is pretend to be a time traveller day<\/a>. Jim also points to a spoof article about the Bible and weather<\/a> (a subject John Pieret<\/a> also recently touched on).<\/p>\n Karl Giberson of BioLogos has been interviewed<\/a>. Heather Wax<\/a> points to a recent display of Hubble images<\/a>. And Brian LePort is thinking of calling it quits<\/a>.<\/p>\n Entering into the discussion of conservatives and Biblical scholarship, Ken Schenck offered a detailed reflection. His most powerful point was about conservative publications as \u201cinnoculation\u201d against other views. One doesn\u2019t have to actually successfully make the case for this or that conservative viewpoint \u2013 it is often considered to be enough merely that there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2747264019934906464?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")