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February 2006

February 13, 2006

Historical Jesus: Italian Trial Ends

An atheist who sued a small-town priest for saying that Jesus Christ existed has had...

February 10, 2006

Does anyone ever humble themselves?

RoastedTomatoes recent post on Times and Seasons (look here) reminds me of a point that...

February 07, 2006

Historical Mormon Smackdown: Relative General Authority Edition!

Last week, blogpoll went nuts and I made a mistake which meant that the people...

February 06, 2006

The Exegesis of a Stop Sign

Suppose you're traveling to work and you see a stop sign. What do you do?...

February 03, 2006

Secular Sam’s Guide to the OT: The Lineage and Honors of Cain

No story in the OT is ever wasted, and the story of Cain and his...

January 2006

January 31, 2006

Historical Jesus 5: The Baptism of Jesus

Parts 3 and 4 of this series on the Historical Jesus were a summary of...

January 30, 2006

Historical Mormon Smackdown: Auxiliary Edition [Corrected; Please vote again]

It appears that although we are meant to pay closer attention to the teachings of...

January 28, 2006

“A” is for Adam “in whose fall we sinnéd all”

My GD class was hinting around last week that there is a firm distinction between...

January 27, 2006

Secular Sam’s Guide to the OT: the Pseudepigrapha

The writings contained in what is known as the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (hereafter OTP) are...

January 26, 2006

Historical Jesus 4: More Criteria

Since the majority of our information about Jesus comes from the Gospels, when we try...

January 24, 2006

The Return of Historical Mormon Smackdown: Prophetic Spouse edition!

When last we checked, more people were disturbed by possible polyandry than polygyny on the...

January 21, 2006

In Sorrow Shalt Thou Bring Forth Children

This little narrative describes opposition to the use of chloroform to ease the pain of...

January 20, 2006

Guest Post – Clothes Make the Man Part Two

This is the second part of the first post from Dan Belnap. Clothing and Definitions...

January 20, 2006

Classical Figures in the Creation and Fall Narratives

Anthropopatheia is the name of the figure used to describe the ascription of human passions,...

January 19, 2006

Secular Sam’s Guide to the Old Testament: The Septuagint

The Septuagint generally refers to the books of the Old Testament in their old Greek...

January 19, 2006

Christ the Mediate Creator

One of the interesting things about reading the last half of the NT is seeing...

January 17, 2006

Guest Post: Clothes Make the Man – Part One

This is the first post of two from Dan Belnap. We greatly appreciate his contribution....

January 17, 2006

Introducing Guest-poster Dan Belnap

Dan is a colleague and is the sort of person who, when asked if they...

January 17, 2006

Guest Post: What’s in a name?

Ben Spackman is well-known about the bloggernacle and he has kindly consented to write an...

January 16, 2006

Historical Jesus 3: The Criteria

Although the majority of our information about the historical Jesus comes from the Gospels, these...

January 14, 2006

The Original Position and the Council of Heaven I

As a political philosopher, I often feel lost in the deeper and more detailed discussions...

January 13, 2006

For Christ’s Sake 1: Romans

The expression “for Christ’s sake” occurs four times in the Authorized Version of the New...

January 11, 2006

Flagellation of a Deceased Equine

Or, Trying to Bring FPR Down Off Its High Horse ;) So, my wife and...

January 10, 2006

Historical Jesus 2: The Gospels

One way to approach the hard historical and theological questions about the reality and significance...

January 06, 2006

Secular Sam’s Guide to the Old Testament: Preexistence

Ol’ Sam was a little amazed to note that the lesson for this week included...

January 06, 2006

Historical Jesus — Italian Trial

From Yahoo News -- Original title "Did Jesus Exist? Italian Court to Decide" Forget the...

January 03, 2006

Classical Figures

One way to better appreciate the impact of biblical prose is through attention to the...

January 02, 2006

Secular Sam’s Guide to the Old Testament: Moses and Satan

At Faith-Promoting Rumor, we are inagurating a new series entitled "Secular Sam's Guide to the...

January 01, 2006

Go-to Sources for Study of Genesis

I was going to hammer out a brief exegesis of the creation of humanity (Gen....

January 01, 2006

The Historical Jesus (Sources)

Since the Enlightenment, folks have been asking hard historical and theological questions about the reality...

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