Clue #2: NT Wrong attended ETS this year. This can be deduced from the fact that he just blogged about a post that he is aware included material presented at ETS<\/a>. I realize this is a shocking revelation, since it probably also suggests he may have a book by Don Carson on his bookshelf<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n Clue #3: NT Wrong is British. This is not news to anyone, I\u2019m sure, since no one can be that sarcastic and get away with it for an extended period of time unless, when people read their blog posts, they hear them in a British accent. But just to be clear, no one from the United States would believe that the resurrected saints are in Barnsley, South Yorkshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n If I had to guess the identity of NT Wrong right now, I suppose I\u2019d have to go with\u2026Mark Goodacre. The evidence for this is as follows:<\/p>\n (1) In the list of sources on NT Wrong\u2019s blog<\/a>, Q is absent. None but Mark<\/a> would dare make such an omission. Indeed, I can\u2019t think of an instance when the letter<\/em> Q has ever appeared on NT Wrong\u2019s blog\u2026<\/p>\n (2) Mark Goodacre is the right age to remember Magnum P.I. (he went to the Cheers bar<\/a>, for crying out loud).<\/p>\n (3) Bishop Wrong shares a common first letter with Dr.<\/a> Who.<\/a> Coincidence?<\/p>\n (4) When NT Wrong\u2019s blog began, Mark Goodacre\u2019s blogging hit an all-time lull. Coincidence? I<\/p>\n (5) Mark\u2019s blog has been number three and number two in NT Wrong\u2019s Top 50<\/a>, even though Mark has been a pioneer in the biblioblogging realm. The only explanation is his humility prevents him from giving himself the top spot.<\/p>\n (6) I didn\u2019t see Mark at all at SBL, which surely proves that he knew I suspected him and was avoiding me.<\/p>\n (7) Finally, if you paste the head from Mark\u2019s home page onto the body at the top of the NT Wrong blog, you will find it fits perfectly.<\/p>\n An 8th point, which is clearly the clincher, is the fact that I have seven arguments, a round Biblical number. I might also add the fact that neither blog is searchable, preventing the sorts of poking around that might prove common authorship. That\u2019s the same reason Matthew and Luke didn\u2019t put search bars on their Gospels\u2026<\/p>\n I rest my case! Tune in tomorrow to learn why Jim West<\/a> is really NT Wrong. In the mean time, do go over to Roland Boer\u2019s blog<\/a> and commiserate him for not having cracked the case first.<\/p>\n I have several theories about the identity of NT Wrong. All of them are bunk. I will post them anyway. Be that as it may, in the course of my extensive investigations (= reading NT Wrong\u2019s blog posts from time to time), I have uncovered a few clues that may help us deduce the true […]<\/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-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6388356104459803284?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")