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“the bible meets modernity”
by Erhard Gerstenberger Presupposing an all-round contextuality of biblical messages, we have already admitted a tight affinity between ancient cultures and biblical concepts of the world, mankind,...
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no compelling archaeological evidence
by Israel Finkelstein & Neil Silberman The Bible Unearthed is our attempt to formulate a new archaeological vision of ancient Israel in which the Bible is one of the most important artifacts and...
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“valuing biblical studies & humanities education”
by Jason Silverman The current economic climate has threatened funding for many things, education perhaps foremost among them. This is partially due to a simple shortage of cash. However, there is an...
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church camp woes
From tomorrow to Friday, it is church camp. At a place called Pulau Springs Resort, in neighbouring Johor. I am woodpeckering my nerdy highbrow now at how reptilian I was in even deciding to sign up...
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this is hell
Hell is real. I just returned home from it. No, it is not the neurological delusions of a NDE – Near Death Experience – or the visions of a schizophrenic. It is just Church of God (Anderson,...
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“a response to bart ehrman”
by Thomas L. Thompson (University of Copenhagen) Bart Ehrman has recently dismissed what he calls mythicist scholarship, my Messiah Myth from 2005 among them, as anti-religious motivated denials of a...
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the delusion of mourners
by Gerd Ludemann To better visualize how Peter might deny Jesus and later see him alive in heavenly glory, we should try to imagine what must in all likelihood have been in his mind between Good...
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testing god
Well-meaning evangelical friends who are guantanamo-ed by the gremlinesque mischief of our common primate species often resort to the art of using bovine faecal logic to rapture away very obvious...
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archaeology refutes the bible
by Daniel Lazare Not long ago, archaeologists could agree that the Old Testament, for all its embellishments and contradictions, contained a kernel of truth. Obviously, Moses had not parted the Red...
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the problem with using the bible for morality and ethics
Evangelicals often commit the argumentative fallacy of appealing to authority to justify their ethical or moral preachments. One hears their porcine whine of “this is what the bible says” and “the...
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a public document
“The Reformation was an attempt to put the Bible at the heart of the Church again–not to give it into the hands of private readers. The Bible was to be seen as a public document, the charter of the...
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approaches to scripture
by William Loader People often disagree about how we should approach Scripture in determining right and wrong. I shall suggest later that this is not the only reason for approaching Scripture and,...
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the gospels and critical history
The Gospels and Critical History ******* Filed under: on the Christian bible Tagged: biblical studies, critical history, on the Christian bible, Sparrows and Sandcastles blog, Sparrows and...
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the historical jesus and the beatitudes
by Radical Faith UK When it comes to “what Jesus really said”, unraveling the text of the Gospels into “bare bones” history isn’t easy. Most of the time it’s not possible to know Jesus’ exact words....
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the evangelical christians’ abuse of archaeology
by Robert Cargill Introduction The April 2010 declaration by the Hong Kong-based group Noah’s Ark Ministries International (NAMI) and their partner,The Media Evangelism Limited, claiming to have...
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“reading biblical texts: truth, fact and myth”
by James W. Aageson It is not uncommon to hear someone say, “Let’s just read the Bible literally. Let’s forget about all this interpretation stuff and just read the Bible for what it says.” The...
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“historians and the reality of christ”
Although published in 1992, this article still offers some enlightening advice on the historical Jesus endeavour. Historians and the Reality of Christ by Avery Dulles After a period of relative...
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“benedict xvi on the christmas readings”
by Matthew Ramage If your family regularly attends the evening Christmas vigil mass, on more than one occasion you may have dreaded the proclamation of the Gospel for this particularly liturgy:...
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“the bible’s many gods”
by Gerald McDermott The idea that there are other “gods” who exist as real supernatural beings, albeit infinitely inferior to the only Creator and Redeemer, pervades the Bible. The Psalms fairly...
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‘finding israel’s first camels’
by Tel Aviv University Camels are mentioned as pack animals in the biblical stories of Abraham, Joseph, and Jacob. But archaeologists have shown that camels were not domesticated in the Land of Israel...
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