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July 2014

July 08, 2014

Historicity of the Book of Abraham

This statement seems difficult to reconcile with claims of a fictional Book of Abraham.

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Thoughts on Historicity

Those who propose that our scriptures are best understood as "inspired fiction" almost inevitably frame...

June 18, 2014

What is Apostasy?

Some of the critics of the Church like to claim that "apostasy" means "standing apart,"...

June 06, 2014

DH-39 Scholarly Consensus?

The claim is often made by supporters of the Documentary Hypothesis that there is scholarly...

June 04, 2014

DH-38 We Don’t Know

Another remarkable characteristic of the Documentarians is their unwillingness to simply admit, “We just don’t...

June 04, 2014

Temple and Apocalyse

A review of The Apocalypse in the Light of the Temple by Peter Leithart. This book basically...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Review of Ehrman

The ever insightful Larry Hurtado reviews Bart Ehrman's new book How Jesus Became God (2104).

May 25, 2014

DH 37- A Shrinking Theory?

One of the latest book-length defenses of the Documentary Hypothesis, Joel Baden’s The Composition of...

May 22, 2014

Commentary on Luke

Kent Brown, professor emeritus at BYU and a leading scholar on the New Testament and...

May 21, 2014

DH-36: Four Degrees of Speculation

Documentarians generally claim that they can: 1- identify the four different sources within the Pentateuch;...

May 19, 2014

DH-35: Literary Composition Techniques

As far as I can tell, there is no example of any other ancient Jewish...

May 16, 2014

DH-34: Dating the Sources

As I noted in DH-33, although there are various schools of thought, biblical scholars can’t...

May 14, 2014

DH-33: How Many Sources?

The classical formulation of the Documentary Hypothesis posits four written sources for the Pentateuch, called...

May 12, 2014

DH-32: Source Criticism

Modern scholars attempt to clearly indicate their sources by footnotes. Ancient scholars generally did not. ...

May 10, 2014

Have I Misunderstood?

In response to my criticisms of his views (which I can't directly access; indirectly here),...

May 09, 2014

What is Scripture?

Over on his blog David Bokovoy continues to explain why he thinks scripture should be...

May 06, 2014

Jesus’ Wife Controversy

Larry Hurtado summarizes and links to new information on the Jesus' Wife fragment. It is...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

DH 31: Inconsistency 2

Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that every perceived inconsistency claimed by modern biblical...

April 28, 2014

DH 30: Historicity Redux

David Bokovoy has written a response to Jeff Bradshaw's review of Authoring the Old Testament. Although...

April 28, 2014

DH 29: Inconsistency 1

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Emerson The question of textual consistency...

April 27, 2014

DH 28: Historicity 3

Ancient people did not write “history” as moderns generally understand the term. The origin of...

April 26, 2014

DH 27: Conan the Documentarian

April 26, 2014

DH 26: Argumentum ad Baculum

My newest argumentum ad baculum against the DH (from Greg Smith).

April 26, 2014

DH 26: More mistrepresentation

Over on the anonymous "Faith Promoting Rumor" David Bokovoy claimed the following: "There is a...

April 26, 2014

DH 25: Presuppositions?

In a comment on DH 21, David Bokovoy made the following statement. By what criteria...

April 26, 2014

DH 24: Text or Author?

Jupiter's Child is much exercised about my discussion of authorship and the DH. The purpose...

April 26, 2014

DH 23: Clarity in Definitions

The anonymous folks over at Patheos' "Faith Promoting Rumor" have sponsored a critique of my...

April 25, 2014

DH 22: Legitimate Differences

Despite a bit of rhetorical posturing by some of the supporters of the JEDP-Documentary Hypothesis,...

April 25, 2014

DH 21: Quot homines, tot sententiae

"As many men, so many opinions." Terence. My friend Matt Roper sent me the follow...

April 23, 2014

DH 20: Historicity 2

Historians have long realized that, epistemologically speaking, the idea of learning what “really happened” through...