Matthew and Luke’s Nativity Stories…and the Maddening McClellan Disinformation Shtick
Well, it’s the Christmas season, and as to be expected, many “social media scholars” have posted material that deals with the nativity stories in Matthew and Lu...
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It’s Been a While! Let Me Write Something about Bart Ehrman…and Mel Gibson
Once again, it has been over a month since my last post. It is amazing how busy things get when you are a high school teacher again at the start of a school yea...
The New Testament Use of the Old Testament [Part 6 in the Series]: Matthew 2:23’s claim that “He will be called a Nazarene” was spoken by the prophets…although it wasn’t, but it sort of was!
We now come to the final example of the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament that is found in Matthew’s infancy narrative. Up to this point, we’ve looked at...
The New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament [Part 3 in the Series]: Isaiah 53: How the Suffering Servant is Israel…and Christ
In my previous post, I began to argue that the Suffering Servant in of Isaiah 53, when read within the context of the larger section of Isaiah 40-55, is clearly...
The New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament [Part 2 in the Series]: Isaiah 53 and the Suffering Servant (Part 1 on Isaiah 53)
Perhaps one of the most well-known, and I would argue most misunderstood, Old Testament prophecy quoted in the gospels is Isaiah 53, or more properly Isaiah 52:...
“godless” by Dan Barker (Part 11): Get Your Myth On! Get Your Myth On! Barker goes full-mythicist!
We are getting close to the end of by extended book analysis of Dan Barker’s godless. The next couple of posts will primarily focus on the final two chapters of...
“godless” by Dan Barker (Part 8): That Immoral Jesus! And Those Horrifically Immoral Beatitudes!
Welcome to Part 8 of my extended book analysis of Dan Barker’s book, godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists. Try to follo...
Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 12): Conclusions–The Fundamentalist Plummer in an Art Gallery
We now come to my final post in my extended book analysis of Bart Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God. In this post I will cover Ehrman’s last two chapters, as well a...
Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 9): What Does Ehrman Know About the Resurrection of Jesus? Turns out, not much…
In chapter 5 of his book, How Jesus Became God, Bart Ehrman discusses “what we can know” about the resurrection of Jesus. Of course, given the fact that in the ...
Richard Carrier and the Mythical Jesus (Part 3): The Mythicist Argument–Welcome to Bizarro World (i.e. A Lesson on How Not To Interpret the Bible)
We now come to the third post of my series on Richard Carrier and the “mythicist movement” which claims there was no historical person named Jesus, and that the...