Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 1): A Book Analysis Series
Over the past decade or so, Bart Ehrman has made quite a name for himself, having written numerous books about Jesus and early Christianity that, to say the ver...
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The Jewish War Series (Part 10: The Idumeans Come to the Aid of the Zealots)
In actuality, Eleazar ben-Simon and Zacharias ben-Phalek, two of the zealot leaders who, along with the rest of the zealots, were trapped in the Temple, smuggle...
The Jewish War Series (Part 9): Ananus the High Priest vs. The Zealots (and further betrayal by John of Gischala)
After the zealots had seized control of the temple complex and thrown out all the established priests, the high priest Ananus made one last effort to regain con...
The Jewish War Series (Part 8: The Revolutionaries in Jerusalem)
Upon coming to Jerusalem, John of Gischala attempted to rally the populace to engage the Roman army in battle. He had seen the difficulty the Roman soldiers had...
The Jewish War Series (Part 7): Vespasian Conquers Galilee
After the taking of Jotapata, Vespasian dispatched the 5th and 10th legions to secure Scythopolis in Samaria, while he took two other legions to the coastal cit...
Two Easter Poems…
I thought I’d share two poems I wrote quite awhile ago. The first one is 25 years old–I wrote it on the Easter my sister and I were stranded in Colb...
An Extended Analysis of Ken Ham’s Book “Six Days” (Part 7: Death and Disease, and How Ham’s Intepretation of Genesis 1-11 Promotes Biblical Illiteracy and Destroys the Harvest)
What better way to conclude my analysis of Ken Ham’s Six Days: The Age of the Earth and the Decline of the Church than with a seventh post? On this seventh post...
An Extended Analysis of Ken Ham’s Book “Six Days” (Part 6: A Historical Adam, More Pot Shots at Christian Academics…and Brawndo! It’s What Plants Crave!)
Here in my second-to-last installment in my blog series looking at Ken Ham’s book, Six Days: The Age of the Earth and the Decline of the Church, I am going to t...
An Extended Book Analysis of Ken Ham’s “Six Days” (Part 5: Pot Shots at Christians…and a Really Big Blender)
In this next post of my book analysis of Ken Ham’s book, Six Days: The Age of the Earth and the Decline of the Church, I am going to take a look at chapter 7 (“...
The Jewish War Series (Part 6: Vespasian Begins the Roman Advance into Galilee)
By AD 67, the emperor Nero had chosen the old, proven general Vespasian to go in and subdue Judea. Vespasian had a proven war record from his successes in Germa...