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July 2013

July 11, 2013

Society for Mandaean Studies

At the recent ARAM conference on the Mandaeans, a topic which some of us had...

July 10, 2013

Technological Transformation

I am writing this on a bus with free wi-fi that will (unless something unexpected...

July 01, 2013

The Religion Scholars Song

Here's a song written with the aim of using rhyme to help you remember key...

June 2013

June 11, 2013

Who Was Jesus to George Caird in 1977?

Thanks to Mark Goodacre and Matthew Montonini for sharing the above video, featuring New Testament...

June 06, 2013

Scholars Behaving Badly – Er, I Mean, Citing Wikipedia

I've been discussing information literacy in general and Wikipedia in particular not only here, but...

May 2013

May 13, 2013

Open Access Scholarship

I had a librarian mention to me that they had heard about a scholar whose...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

The Historical Jesus – Now With Even Less Futility!

Pat McCullough has written a response to my response to his earlier posts, clarifying what...

April 11, 2013

Scholarship in the Blogosphere

There are several interesting topics that I think I can bring together under this heading....

April 05, 2013

What Kind Of Love Is This?

There is a Huffington Post article which indicates, unsurprisingly, that most Americans say they love...

March 2013

March 11, 2013

Biblical Criticism

This cartoon came to my attention on Facebook: I wonder whether the cartoonist is intentionally...

January 2013

January 02, 2013

Announcing TalkHistoricity: An Index of Mythicist Claims

It was recently suggested to me that it might be useful to put together an...

December 2012

December 13, 2012

Sketchy-Looking Academic Web Sites

I was grading final exams from my class on the Bible this evening, and a...

December 13, 2012

April De Conick on the Gospel of Judas and More

April De Conick shared the above video on her blog, in which she discusses her...

August 2012

August 25, 2012

Restoring Jesus

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

June 2012

June 08, 2012

Mythicism around the Blogosphere

First place in this post has to go to the recent post on this topic...

May 2012

May 28, 2012

Learn, Unlearn, Relearn

Alvin Toffler is of course putting in other words the sage advice offered by Yoda...

March 2012

March 05, 2012

Talpiot Tombs and New Testament Historical Criticism

A piece I wrote, expanding on my thoughts about the relationship between the recent claims...

February 2012

February 23, 2012

Scholars and Apologists

The term "apologist" has become an insult, but it was not always so. If we...

February 10, 2012

Patience, Not Undue Skepticism, Appropriate Regarding Early Mark Manuscript Claims

Several bloggers, including myself, have urged folks not to get too excited at this early...

December 2011

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?",...

September 2011

September 03, 2011

Jordan Lead Codices: Exposing the Fakes

Tom Verenna made the video above, with input from a variety of scholars and bloggers....

June 2011

June 03, 2011

The Ouzo Prophecy

I presume that professors in most fields get e-mails and/or packages with manuscripts from people...

May 2011

May 31, 2011

Lessons in Pseudoscholarly “Logic”: The Argument from Lack of Authority

The "argument from authority" is a well-known logical fallacy which involves citing an expert as...

May 21, 2011

Breaking News: Family Radio Prepared to Admit it was Wrong about the Rapture

Via Joel Watts and Peter Kirk I learned that Family Radio, Harold Camping's organization, has...

May 19, 2011

Scholars and the Media around the Blogosphere

Here are a few interesting links to other blogs, around the topic of the media...

December 2010

December 21, 2010

Challenge to Anti-Intellectual Christians

This is a repost of something I wrote a couple of years ago. It's a challenge...

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