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April 22, 2014
When examining the question of historicity, it is important to distinguish between ontological issues and...
April 21, 2014
DH 18: The Chicken or the Egg?
There's an old biblical studies joke--yes there are such things--that goes like this: Documentarians believe...
April 21, 2014
DH 17: What is the Documentary Hypothesis?
The discussion on DH 16 seems to have degenerated into a debate about the meaning...
April 20, 2014
Witnesses of the Resurrection?
On Easter I find it puzzling and paradoxical that atheists and anti-Christians often claim that...
April 20, 2014
Χριστός ἀνέστη! (He is risen!) Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη! (Risen indeed!) Photos of Easter at Jerusalem
April 19, 2014
Another methodological problem with the Documentary Hypothesis, which many scholars have noted, is that it...
April 17, 2014
The Documentary Hypothesis is not only unfalsifiable but also unverifiable. That is to say, there...
April 16, 2014
A major methodological problem facing proponents of the Documentary Hypothesis—the Documentarians—is the question of methodology. ...
April 15, 2014
More Agitation on the Temple Mount
Jews were prevented by Israeli police from attempting animal sacrifice for Passover (Korban Pesach) today on the...
April 15, 2014
From James Davila
April 15, 2014
And the Moon Shall Turn to Blood
"The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great...
April 15, 2014
Imagine a situation where a group of doctors agree that a patient has cancer, but...
April 14, 2014
Empirical Evidence It is very important to realize that there is absolutely no empirical textual...
April 13, 2014
The principles I outlined earlier in DH 9 and 10 on dating ancient texts face...
April 12, 2014
DH 10: Dating Ancient Texts (part 2)
4- Anachronisms—inconsistent dates, events, or features of a text. An anachronism is a feature of...
April 10, 2014
DH 9: Dating Ancient Texts (part 1)
Rarely do we have the original manuscripts of ancient books. Surviving copies generally date centuries—and...
April 09, 2014
The most obvious example of later editing of a biblical text is found in the...
April 08, 2014
The biblical text itself explicitly claims that much of it is composed of copies, abridgments,...
April 07, 2014
We need to clearly understand that the ancient idea of a “book” is quite different...
April 06, 2014
We need to understand that in ancient societies, it was not only considered completely legitimate...
April 06, 2014
DH 5: Tradition and Authorship
We need to understand that in ancient societies, it was not only considered completely legitimate...
April 05, 2014
Priests and priesthood are import in the Bible, especially in the Old Testament. In its...
April 05, 2014
DH 4: Ancient concepts of Authorship
Most biblical books are anonymous—no authorship is asserted by the text itself. The major exceptions...
April 04, 2014
Two new reviews of David Bokovoy’s new book Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis–-Deuteronomy have appeared on Interpreter....
April 04, 2014
To understand the Documentary Hypothesis, we need to begin by considering this question: why do...
April 03, 2014
I’m shocked about the Noah Movie!
What shocks me most about the new Noah movie is that people actually expect Hollywood...
August 2013
August 19, 2013
Mysteries of Enoch 2: Intertestamental and New Testament
Attached are the KeyNote slides for my Education Week presentation" "Mysteries of Enoch 2: Intertestamental and New...
August 19, 2013
Mysteries of Enoch 1: Ancient Israel
Attached are the KeyNote slides for my Education Week presentation on: "The Mysteries of Enoch...
July 2013
July 29, 2013
The Bible as [more than] Literature
The latest Hamblin/Peterson Deseret news Column.
June 2013
June 24, 2013
Another author likes my critique of Hitchens. Alas, publishing such reviews no longer fall...
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