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December 2012

December 01, 2012

More Likely a Conservative Scholar’s Kid?

Via Stephen Carlson on Facebook

November 2012

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 12, 2012

Bias and Bayes’ Theorem in History

Regular commenter Ian has posted two more entries on his blog which relate to the...

September 2012

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 16, 2012

Further Problematizing Richard Carrier’s Claims about Jesus

Ian has a further detailed explanation of Bayes' Theorem on his blog. It problematizes Richard...

September 10, 2012

Richard Carrier Responds

Richard Carrier has posted a response to my review of his book, Proving History. I'm...

September 06, 2012

Lecture on the Infancy Stories in Matthew and Luke

I apologize that the very start of the recording was cut off. Not much was...

September 05, 2012

The Jesus Blog

Chris Keith and Anthony Le Donne have created a blog, which focuses not only on...

August 2012

August 25, 2012

Restoring Jesus

I've felt like there was some analogy or parable to be made from the recent...

August 13, 2012

Competing Denialisms

Steve Douglas drew my attention to the above comic from SMBC. As someone who deals...

August 11, 2012

Two Nails in the Coffin of Jesus Mythicism, Coming Soon

The first of the additional nails that are coming soon is Maurice Casey's forthcoming book, Jesus:...

August 08, 2012

Maurice Casey responds to Thomas Thompson

James Tabor wrongly refers to an "all-out war among the experts" regarding the question "Did...

August 07, 2012

Review of Richard C. Carrier, Proving History

I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to review Richard Carrier's latest book,...

July 2012

July 23, 2012

Will Time-Travelers Ruin the Passion?

It is a scenario that some science fiction stories have explored - Gary Kilworth's...

July 08, 2012

Why There Are No Guns In The Bible

Today in my Sunday school class, in mentioning the depiction in Nehemiah of armed Israelites...

June 2012

June 30, 2012

Tackling Denialism With Painful Logic

Compared to historians and scholars dealing with Jesus mythicists, those who tackle other forms of...

June 22, 2012

Dead, Buried – and Likely to be Believed Resurrected

Thom Stark posted "It Is Finished for Richard Carrier's Dying Messiah: Part 2." Joel Watts...

June 14, 2012

Richard Carrier Illustrates Historical Jesus Methodology

While one might or might not see fit to dispute Richard Carrier's specific conclusions in...

June 11, 2012

Happy 175th Anniversary, Crooked Creek Baptist Church!

Yesterday my church, Crooked Creek Baptist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States, celebrated...

June 08, 2012

More Mythicism around the Blogosphere

There seems to be quite a bit of buzz about mythicism in the blogosphere. Today's...

June 01, 2012

The Jesus Process Begins

A while back, Joseph Hoffmann announced a new project with the title "The Jesus Process."...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

Doctor Who and the Council of Nicaea

I have focused in my listening and reading on actual episodes of the Doctor Who...

May 22, 2012

Old City of Jerusalem

Today most of our time was spent in the old city of Jerusalem. We...

May 17, 2012

Two Nazarenes

Our tour guide Baligh's local tour organization which EF works with is called "Nazarene Tours"...

May 10, 2012

Future Archaeology

Jim West shared this, and while it is funny for a variety of reasons, it...

April 2012

April 28, 2012

Mythicism and other Bunk around the Blogosphere

Thom Stark blogged about Neil Godfrey's reading comprehension (or lack thereof). In other news, Neil...

April 26, 2012

The Historical Jesus around the Blogosphere

There's a lot of interesting stuff in the blogosphere in the past day or so...

April 23, 2012

Letter from Ned Ludd to the Mythicists

This important historical document seems to me to be relevant to something mythicists often say,...

April 20, 2012

From the Talpiot Tomb to the Blogosphere

In my class on the historical Jesus yesterday we discussed the burial of Jesus, including...

April 20, 2012

Carrier and other Mythicists Reacting to Ehrman

In responding to Bart Ehrman's book about mythicism, Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for...

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