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...
Tag: Biblical Studies
A Bit of an Update on Things…AND MY COMMERCIAL (sort of!)
I haven’t written anything on my blog for about a month. The reason for that is a combination of things. This summer was “the summer of putting the house back t...
John Walton and Israel’s Conquest of Canaan: Did God Really Command Genocide? (Spoiler Alert: No, he didn’t..and the Israelites didn’t claim he did to justify mass killing either)
We now come to the final post of my six-part extended book review of John Walton’s most recent book, The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest, and in this post,...
Understanding the Conquest of Canaan (Part 5): The Canaanites–Is Having Sex With Your Donkey Only Wrong If You’re an Israelite?
As we come to Part 5 in my series about understanding the conquest of Canaan, I want to address a point John Walton makes that stems from his propositions I add...
Israel’s Conquest of Canaan: Questions and Controveries–A Look at John Walton’s New Book (Part 1)
Mass genocide. Ethnic cleansing. An ancient form of colonialism. Cruel, superstitious, fanatical, barbarous war criminals no different than Nazis. That’s the an...
The Book of Isaiah: A Clear, Concise Overview that will Answer All Your Questions
Currently, I am devoting a lot of time to finishing up my translation of the Major and Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. One of the things I am including in ...
A Little Bit of Old Testament Overview–Part 2 (Getting your bearings in the Old Testament Country)
In yesterday’s post, I gave “Part 1” to my explanation as to how understand the Old Testament story. Here is “Part 2.” If you want...
Answers in Genesis Can Use “Heresy” as Well…or more properly speaking, they MISuse the term “heresy”
Earlier this month, I came out with my book, The Heresy of Ham, in which I take a long, hard look at young earth creationism against the backdrop of, not only s...
Biblical Studies Extravaganza! I, Joel Anderson, Have Found the SOURCE of “Q”
***NOTE: This originally was a short little piece I wrote for the Regent College newspaper back in 1997…it never got published, but it is a piece of writi...
Paul’s Letter to the Romans: Chapter 1:1-17 (Part 3)
Today, I start actually going through Paul’s letter to the Romans. In order to really simplify things, I’m breaking this post into two sections: (A)...