A Brief Look at Ecclesiastes: Part 2 (Solomon, Adam, Jesus, and the Human Experience)
Here in my second post on Ecclesiastes, I want to touch upon two other things in Ecclesiastes that I feel are quite important for understanding Ecclesiastes as ...
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A Brief Look at Ecclesiastes (Part 1: Yes, there are Genesis Allusions)
Aside from my book analysis of Dan McClellan’s The Bible Says So back in June, I haven’t written all that much here on my blog for the past 4-5 months. There ar...
Resurrecting Orthodoxy is TEN Years Old
Two days ago, July 19th, marked the ten-year anniversary of my starting up this blog. When I started the blog, the bulk of my posts for the first few years had ...
Irenaeus and “Against Heresies” (Contemplating Ancient Gnostics…and Modern Academics?)
I’ve always had somewhat of a love-hate relationship with my Biblical Studies “career.” Back in 1995-1996, I attended Regent College in Vancouver, British Colum...
The Delirium of the Lotophagi
For years, they’ve languished and lounged in fields of lotus,Savoring the sweet and soothing leaves of narcotic nectar,As a reptilian beast hissed his lotus lul...
The Horns of Moses (and other advances in modern biblical scholarship!)
The church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome is the location of Michelangelo’s famous sculpture of Moses. The unusual thing about this sculpture is that Moses ha...
Dan McClellan’s “The Bible Says So”: A New Book Analysis Series (Part 8: The Mark of the Beast…and Hell…and Concluding Remarks)
Just as the music group The Doors once sang, “This is the end!” Welcome to my final post in my book analysis of Dan McClellan’s book, The Bible Said So. Before ...
Dan McClellan’s “The Bible Says So”: A New Book Analysis Series (Part 7: Born of a Virgin? Was Jesus God?)
It’s turning out my initial 5-part book analysis is going to end up being 8 posts. Oh well. Here in this post of my book analysis of Dan McClellan’s book, The B...
Dan McClellan’s “The Bible Says So”: A New Book Analysis Series (Part 6: One God? Homosexuality? Cover Up, Ladies!)
In this sixth…yes, sixth…entry of my book analysis of Dan McClellan’s book, The Bible Says So, I’m going to do my best to give a tour of chapters 13-15. Over th...
Dan McClellan’s “The Bible Says So”: A New Book Analysis Series (Part 5: Satan, God’s Body…Child Sacrifice? Beat Your Kids?)
In this fifth entry of my book analysis of Dan McClellan’s book, The Bible Says So, I’m going to do my best to give a tour of at least chapters 9-12. Let’s see ...