A Look at Jonathan Bernier’s “Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament”: (Part 1)
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine posted on Facebook that after reading John A.T. Robinson’s book, Redating the New Testament, he was now convinced that the Syn...
Category: Biblical Studies
Social Media Food Fight in Biblical Studies Between “Inspiring Philosophy” and “Data Over Dogma” (Part 2: Here’s How To Understand the Olivet Discourse)
In my last post, I noted a recent social media spat between Michael Jones of Inspiring Philosophy and Dan McClellan of Data Over Dogma. Long story short, they b...
Social Media Food Fight in Biblical Studies: Inspiring Philosophy vs. Data Over Dogma (where you learn nothing) Part 1
About a month ago, I stumbled upon a few videos between Dan McClellan (of “Data Over Dogma”) and Michael Jones (of “Inspiring Philosophy”)—a veritable video spa...
I Got Interviewed About my BCBS NT Reader’s Guide
In case anyone is interested and has an hour to watch, I got interviewed yesterday by Zach Miller on his channel about my recent BCBS NT Reader’s Guide. W...
Some Final, Rambling Thoughts on Galatians (…and our politics)
A little over a week ago, I finished going through Galatians. At the end of that post, I mentioned I was going to write a reflective post on Galatians to finish...
A Dive into Galatians (Part 5: Galatians 5:13-6:10—The Flesh vs. The Spirit)
A Brief Recap (Again)Here in Part 5 of my look at Paul’s letter to the Galatians, we now come to the “big finale” of the letter. But again, like I did in my pre...
Getting Interviewed About my Blue-Collar Bible Scholar’s Readers Guide to the New Testament
Today I was interviewed about my book, The Blue-Collar Bible Scholar’s Reader’s Guide to the New Testament. We mainly focused on the New Testament&#...
A Dive into Galatians (Part 4: Galatians 3:21-5:12—Sons or Slaves?)
A Brief Recap Thus FarBefore we move on to the next major section of Paul’s letter to the Galatians, perhaps it would be good to pause and provide a brief recap...
A Dive into Galatians (Part 3: Galatians 2:15-3:20—Faith or Torah?)
The argument in Galatians actually begins in 2:15. Everything up to this point is basically historical prologue that illustrates the theological point Paul is g...
A Dive into Galatians (Part 2: Galatians 1:1-2:14)
The Greeting (1:1-5)If you are like me (or like me when I was in high school), if and when you ever read one of Paul’s letters, you tend to skim through those i...