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February 2011

February 21, 2011

Michael Zimmerman on the Good, the Bad, and the Intelligently Designed

Michael Zimmerman has two new pieces on his Huffington Post blog. The first is part four...

February 21, 2011

Around the Unbiblical Blogosphere

Otagosh and Tim Bulkeley both discuss slaughtering the Canaanites.Steve Douglas reviews chapter 9 of Thom Stark's...

February 21, 2011

A Selection of YouTube Videos Related to the Mandaeans

I will be presenting an overview of the Mandaeans and their religion in class today,...

February 21, 2011

Ancient and Modern Memory

The blog Bad Rhetoric linked to a piece in the New York Times Magazine connecting modern feats...

February 20, 2011

Flat Earth in (not so) Modern Mechanics

Thanks to Ed Babinski for pointing out two pieces related to flat earth views, one...

February 20, 2011

Falling Angels and Ringing Cellphones in Humorous Videos around the Blogosphere

I was rather struck by the seemingly reciprocal connection between a post at Remnant of...

February 19, 2011

Mundane! Mainstream! Commonplace! Typical!

Authors have little control over how their books for a general audience are marketed. But...

February 19, 2011

Keeping Your Options Open: Bart Ehrman, Fundamentalism and Orthodoxy

Like a Child has posted on Bart Ehrman. In addition to links to here and...

February 18, 2011

Scholarship and Science, Skepticism and Consensus

Several posts with interconnected points and themes have come to my attention. One, an article...

February 17, 2011

More on What Biblical Studies Professors Teach at Peje Iesous

Continuing some inter-blog interaction, Christopher Skinner has posted a follow-up to his previous post, in...

February 17, 2011

Mandaean Ginza Rba Text and Concordance Online

Via the Mandaean Gnosticism blog, I learned that in addition to numerous other Mandaean texts,...

February 17, 2011

Jesus, Birth Stories (x2) and Stone-Casting (x2) Around the Blogosphere

Joel Watts shared the illustration below (although he doesn't think they got the "real Jesus"...

February 17, 2011

The Best of all Possible “The Best of All Possible Worlds”

Today we begin discussing Voltaire's Candide in my "Faith, Doubt and Reason" class. Here's quite...

February 16, 2011

The End of the (Mythicist) Age

In an attempt to make mythicism seem more plausible, some mythicists attempt to push the...

February 16, 2011

Mark’s Missing Ending: Article in The Bible and Interpretation

An article I wrote has been published by The Bible and Interpretation. The title is...

February 16, 2011

Approaching the Bible Academically (not just in the Academy)

Christopher Skinner shares an experience of interacting with a colleague who doesn't think that personal...

February 15, 2011

Paul Cartledge, Provoker of Mythicists? Alexander the Great and Jesus

Paul Cartledge's book on Alexander the Great is quoted by Chuck Grantham in a recent...

February 15, 2011

Around the Biblioblogosphere

The Center for the Study of Christian Origins has audio recordings of talks by James...

February 14, 2011

Daniel McClellan Reviews Chapter Three of Dunn, Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?

Dan McClellan has been blogging through James Dunn's recent book on early Christian worship, monotheism...

February 14, 2011

Alan Segal has passed away

I learned from Jim Davila the sad news that Alan Segal, the famous scholar of...

February 13, 2011

Midwest SBL 2011

This weekend the meeting of the Midwest chapter of the Society of Biblical Literature, American...

February 11, 2011

My Colleague Got An E-Mail From Jesus (No, Really!)

Butler University is going to be rolling out a new unified messaging system, which will...

February 11, 2011

Links for Evolution Weekend 2011

I'll start with a reminder about Evolution Weekend (this weekend!) and Darwin Day. And then...

February 11, 2011

Godfrey’s Razor Meets Procrustes’ Bed

Neil Godfrey has a "response" to a recent post of mine on mythicism. He equates...

February 10, 2011

“Martyrdom” Then and Now

Pithless Thoughts shared these contrasting images in a post that deserves to be widely seen and...

February 10, 2011

Eisenbrauns Valentine’s Day

Eisenbrauns is having its annual Valentine's Day competition. I had meant to try to put together...

February 10, 2011

Godfrey’s Razor and Historicized Scripture

In a "response" to a recent post of mine about mythicism, Neil Godfrey illustrates well...

February 09, 2011

No Substitute for Scott Bailey

I cannot hope to fill the role of Scott Bailey while he is taking a...

February 08, 2011

Mark(x2)+James+Peter+Muhammad Ali+extracanonical Gospels+conferences(x2)-Q=?

Mark Goodacre shared that he will be presenting two papers at the international SBL meeting...

February 08, 2011

SBL Paper Accepted: The Reception of Lukan Infancy Traditions in the Mandaean Book of John

I just received word that my paper proposal for the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism section...

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