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January 2025

January 26, 2025

Motorbikes Don’t Have Windows (A Conversation With ChatGPT)

I think the best way for me to help my fellow human beings understand what...

August 2022

August 10, 2022

Gospel Nudity

I'm worried that this post will be flagged on social media because of the title....

April 2021

April 25, 2021

God Alone (Twice)

Working on an article about monotheism in early Christianity, I was struck as I hadn't...

December 2020

December 27, 2020

Jesus and Those With Him

I am puzzled why most commentators regard the reference in Mark 3:21 as being to...

October 2020

October 04, 2020

Was Mark on a Roll?

I realize there is significant potential in the punny title of this post. The Gospel...

January 2019

January 25, 2019

Reading the Gospel of Mark (and its Christology) in Context

This is another blog post that existed as a draft for a long time. The...

August 2018

August 25, 2018

Mark Invented the Sea of Galilee

Teaching a class on the historical Jesus, I am revisiting posts from as much as...

June 2018

June 23, 2018

Satan against Satan

I have long found myself puzzled by the statement attributed to Jesus in the New...

June 17, 2018

Rumors of First-Century Mark and the Resurrection

Daniel Wallace, Craig Evans, and others have done significant harm not only to Christian apologetics...

June 10, 2018

The Fragment Formerly Known as “First Century Mark”

I have not been directly involved with the fragment that had been touted some years...

July 2017

July 23, 2017

Scott Carroll on the Claim of a First Century Papyrus of the Gospel of Mark

The Evangelical Textual Criticism blog shared the above video and provides a transcript as well...

July 20, 2016

The Endings of Mark Explained

Joel Watts suggested that this might explain the issues related to the endings of the...

February 2016

February 25, 2016

Mark’s Christology around the Blogosphere

The discussion of Mark's Christology continues throughout the biblioblogosphere. I'm still planning to blog my way...

February 13, 2016

How Did Jesus Become God? Video of the Bart Ehrman and Michael Bird Debate

Deane Galbraith shared the above video of the recent debate between Bart Ehrman and Michael...

February 04, 2016

Blogging Mark’s Christology

As a result of the discussions among bloggers, I thought it would be interesting to...

January 2016

January 15, 2016

Not a Summary of Mark’s Christology

Mike Bird posted this on his blog, offering it as a summary of Mark's Christology:...

August 2015

August 13, 2015

Straight Outta the Synoptic Problem

Another Straight Outta Compton Bible meme that came to my attention via Joel Watts.

May 2015

May 31, 2015

Mark and the Not-Divine, Very Human Jesus

Dale Tuggy makes some excellent points in his recent blog post, "Where did Jesus claim...

April 2015

April 13, 2015

The Criterion of Mortification

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal featured the comic below, which illustrates a popular misunderstanding of the...

January 2015

January 31, 2015

Handling Ancient Artifacts

The handling of mummy masks by Josh McDowell, allegedly in the interest of getting his hands (literally)...

January 20, 2015

The Markan Mummy

We've been wondering for some time about the alleged first-century copy of the Gospel of...

December 2014

December 29, 2014

Was Jesus Wrong on Purpose?

Mike Skinner shared some interesting thoughts on Mark 2:25-26 from the late Bill Placher: “Is...

May 2014

May 06, 2014

Philip Jenkins on Mark’s Original Ending

Ben Witherington shared a comment by Philip Jenkins, making an argument similar to what B....

May 05, 2014

Problematic Papyri

Brice Jones has brought to light some disturbing news about the alleged first century fragment...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Are the Christologies of Paul and Mark Different?

In discussions of Christology, a major divide (as illustrated by the dueling books between Ehrman...

March 06, 2014

The Bible in Indigenous Languages of Tatooine

Jeff Carter shared the above photo with me on Facebook. He asked me if I...

February 2014

February 24, 2014

UPDATE: No First Century Manuscript of the Gospel of Mark Update

UPDATE: I had an article (mentioned below) come to my attention today, and since I...

October 2013

October 16, 2013

Michael Kruger again on Jesus as God in the Gospel of Mark

Michael Kruger has written a rather unhelpful response to a post of mine, which was...

October 15, 2013

Markan Puzzles in Pictures

In searching for images to go in my previous post about the Gospel of Mark,...

October 15, 2013

Jesus as God in the Gospel of Mark?

Michael Kruger wrote a blog post about Jesus as God in the Gospel of Mark. His...

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