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 ...
Category: Biblical Studies
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...
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 ...
Dan McClellan’s “The Bible Says So”: A New Book Analysis Series (Part 4: Asherah, Abortion, and Marrying Your Rapist?)
Welcome to Part 4 of my book analysis of Dan McClellan’s book, The Bible Says So. Let’s just jump right back into Chapter 6 and see how far we get in this post....
Dan McClellan’s “The Bible Says So”: A New Book Analysis Series (Part 3: Ex Nihilo, Lying, and Slavery)
Welcome to Part 3 of my book analysis of Dan McClellan’s book, The Bible Says So. Let’s just jump right back into Chapter 3 and see how far we get in this post....
Dan McClellan’s “The Bible Says So”: A New Book Analysis Series (Part 2: Source Criticism and Inspiration…zip up, your dogma fly is open)
As I go through The Bible Says So by Dan McClellan, I will essentially be having a “conversation” with it—a running commentary, if you will. Now, there are 19 c...