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February 2015

February 24, 2015

An Example of Critical Thinking and Religious Faith

Thought I would share the following picture of my friend, Tyler. Tyler (far left) decided...

February 23, 2015

Kitchen: Too Blatantly Apologetic to Warrant Serious Consideration as Historiography

I thought I would share a helpful follow-up citation to the last critique I posted...

February 04, 2015

The Good News of Christ: Historicity and the New Testament

So the Hebrew Bible isn’t history. But what about the New Testament? The concept of...

February 03, 2015

Stories of Faith and Trickery: Genesis as History (pt. 2)

Something exciting happened to the field of biblical studies beginning in the 1960’s. Until that...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Concerning Scripture: Historicity Versus Inspiration

The historicity of scripture is not a matter of faith. It is an issue of...

January 24, 2015

Critical Studies Versus Apologetics: My Own Personal Journey

I have a great love for critical scholarship, but like any real love, mine took...

January 14, 2015

On This Day 50 Years Ago in Human History

Today is January 17th, 2015. This day marks an important one in human history. 50...

November 2014

November 09, 2014

The Neo-Documentary Hypothesis

I don’t exaggerate when I state that Dr. Jeffrey Stackert has produced one of the...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Reading the Bible Critically and Religiously: Interview with Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler

Brigham Young University’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship continues to offer impressive...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Deutero-Isaiah in the Book of Mormon: A Literary Analysis (pt. 2)

In the previous post exploring the literary use of Deutero-Isaiah in the Book of Mormon,...

April 16, 2014

Yahweh Elohim in Genesis 2-3: A Response to Opponents of Documentary Analysis

I’m grateful that my book Authoring the Old Testament has sparked some interesting discussions. As...

April 13, 2014

Affliction and Favor: The Book of Mormon as Literature

For 2013-14, I had the opportunity to serve as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in...

April 10, 2014

Three Remarkable Lives

The Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah continues to play host to some...

April 02, 2014

Mormon Studies at the University of Utah

I had the opportunity Fall semester 2013 to teach a Book of Mormon as Literature...

January 2014

January 28, 2014

Genesis: Abraham and the Akedah

Dan Wotherspoon has posted our discussion on Abraham and the Akedah as a free podcast...

January 26, 2014

The Death of the Documentary Hypothesis

I’m surprised how often I read online someone making the assertion that the Documentary Hypothesis...

January 24, 2014

The Creation of the “Helper”: The Importance of Historical Criticism for Religious Readers

I need to begin this post with a frank confession. I self-identify as a male-feminist. ...

January 23, 2014

“Divinity Speaks And It Is So”: Limitations of the Prophetic Word

The Book of Mormon presents a touching exchange between husband and wife. In a moment...

January 22, 2014

Worshipping an Anthropomorphic God

The term “anthropomorphism” refers to the attribution of human form or other characteristics to anything other than a...