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November 2012

November 29, 2012

#ProgGOD 2: The Incarnation

I was putting off responding to Tony Jones' recent provocation to progressive Christians to answer...

November 02, 2012

Class on the Easter and Resurrection Accounts in the New Testament

A first attempt at using a digital whiteboard while recording a class - one that...

November 01, 2012

Class on the Crucifixion and Passion Narratives in the New Testament

Since this is another class without changing powerpoint slides, I'm making this one available as...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Jesus, the Grim Reaper?

The depiction of a figure seated on a cloud and wielding a sickle in Revelation...

September 2012

September 24, 2012

Is Sex the Reason Some Insist Jesus Wasn’t Married?

Whatever one thinks of the authenticity or otherwise of the papyrus fragment that seems to...

September 20, 2012

3 Jesus’ Wife (With Fill in the Blank at the End)

There's been even more blogged and discussed about the "Jesus' wife" Coptic fragment since my...

September 19, 2012

2 Jesus’ Wife

The announcement by Karen King about the Coptic fragment which has Jesus mentioning "my wife"...

September 18, 2012

Coptic Text Mentions Jesus’ Wife

The New York Times, the Harvard Gazette, The Huffington Post and other media outlets are...

September 17, 2012

Christ of Jerusalem Lost the Election

The New York Times has an article today about the tendency of candidates in Brazil to...

September 15, 2012

Jesus and Spock

Eruesso shared this tattoo of Spock depicted in imagery typically associated with Jesus: He said...

September 14, 2012

A Different Trinity: The Father, Son, and Holy Candidate

Fred Clark shared the image below promoting the Father, Son, and Holy Candidate - or is...

September 07, 2012

Jesus Learned

I have been talking a lot lately about how Biblical inerrantists are forced to twist...

September 05, 2012

The Only True God for Kindle

Most readers will immediately realize that this post is not going to be about who...

July 2012

July 30, 2012

The Only True God in Paperback

My book The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in Its Jewish Context is now...

July 09, 2012

Anush-Uthra vs. Jesus: Smackdown in Jerusalem

I just posted another draft of a chapter from the Mandaean Book of John. In...

May 2012

May 07, 2012

John’s Apologetic Christology for Kindle

I somehow failed to notice earlier that my first book, John's Apologetic Christology: Legitimation and...

April 2012

April 16, 2012

The Only True God in Paperback

At long last, the wait is almost over for those of you who've been awaiting...

March 2012

March 22, 2012

Responding to Richard Carrier’s Response to Bart Ehrman

I linked previously to Bart Ehrman's piece on whether Jesus existed in The Huffington Post....

March 09, 2012

Translating (Away) The Son of God

I've been meaning for some time to come back to a topic that has been...

February 2012

February 25, 2012

Jesus: What I Really Do

February 20, 2012

Review of Earl Doherty’s Jesus: Neither God Nor Man chapter 10 part two

I've finally found some time to post my second blog entry about chapter 10 of...

January 2012

January 25, 2012

Jeff Carter Blogs About The Only True God

Jeff Carter has been reading my book The Only True God and yesterday he blogged...

December 2011

December 29, 2011

Neil Godfrey on Paul-Louis Couchoud

Paul-Louis Couchoud has something in common with other mythicists: he was not a historian. But...

December 24, 2011

The Divinity of Christ: A Response to Roger Olson

In the same 24 hour period, Roger Olson and Daniel McClellan posted on the subject...

December 15, 2011

The New Testament Scholar Who Stole Christmas?

An op-ed piece I wrote, with the title "The New Testament Scholar Who Stole Christmas?",...

November 2011

November 15, 2011

God’s Own Blood in Acts 20:28? Christology and Textual Criticism

Brian LePort has posted on one of the different manuscript readings in Acts 20:28. For...

October 2011

October 23, 2011

Review of Jesus, Gnosis and Dogma

My review of the book Jesus, Gnosis and Dogma by Riemer Roukema has been posted...

October 06, 2011

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jesus: How to Ask Hard Questions

This is the third installment in my blog review of A Hitchhiker's Guide to Jesus,...

September 2011

September 19, 2011

Worshiping Jesus around the Biblioblogosphere

There are a couple of posts from around the blogosphere on the subject of monotheism,...

August 2011

August 24, 2011

Jesus: The Latest Incarnation

Everyone knows that images of Jesus have changed over the years, centuries and millennia. Much...

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