In January this year I posted a series discussing Nina Livesey’s book, The Letters of Paul in Their Roman Literary Context: Reassessing Apostolic Authorship. Livesey proposes that our canonical letters of Paul were for most part produced in the second century as treatises by the school of Marcion. The Book of Acts that relates the story … Continue reading "The Invention of the Apostle Paul?"| Vridar
When does the New Testament start? Explore the historical, political, and religious events that shaped its beginning, from Roman imperial power to the early writings of Paul and the Gospels.| Bart Ehrman Courses Online
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Join Nancy Guthrie as she talks with Iain Duguid about how we can understand Revelation in new ways when we read it as a letter, as a promise, and as apocalyptic prophecy.| Crossway
In this new podcast, Nancy Guthrie—author, Bible teacher, and podcast host—leads listeners to a deeper understanding of the book of Revelation through conversations with respected Bible scholars, pastors, and other Bible teachers.| Crossway
NKJV Note Worthy New Testament Bible was designed to help you read and journal through the New Testament in a year. The idea is to write about your thoughts on the daily reading in the space provided for each day, and then use the seventh day to reflect on the previous six days. I love […] The post NKJV Note Worthy New Testament Bible Review appeared first on Bible Buying Guide.| Bible Buying Guide
We talk a great deal about the mindset and worldview of the Hebrew people, because that’s the only way to understand the Bible. But not everything about that outlook is admirable, especially …| Radix Fidem Blog
Many readers by now will have heard of a new book, freely available, arguing that the first century Jewish historian Josephus really did write a passage about Jesus. The book has been discussed on public forums, blogs, youtube channels, other websites, etc. If you happen not to have heard about it,| Vridar
The books of Daniel and Revelation are of the apocalyptic genre, a unique literary form peculiar to the age in which they were written. Often described as crisis literature, they clearly were spawned during times of great stress in history when the only solution seemed to call for God’s intervention in the affairs of humankind. Contents show […]| About Catholics
Saint Paul is more in the spotlight than any other figure in the early Church. Of many others, even the apostles who were closest to Jesus, we know very little. In some cases we know nothing more than their name. This is to some extent true of Jesus who left no writings and whose historical account has been clouded […]| About Catholics
These diverse ancient works expand upon the four canonical Gospels in creative and sometimes subversive ways.| Text & Canon Institute
The influential scholar who taught the narrative unity of Scripture and changed his mind about the morality of homosexuality has died.| Christianity Today
Working with our Christmas Carol Concert, today’s communion reading is from Matthew 2, and working from my favorite Christmas carol—We Three Kings. Matthew 2:9-11 9 After hearing the king, th…| Frank Luke - Writer
How does the Oxford don’s influential argument for ‘local texts’ of the Gospels hold up after 100 years?| Text & Canon Institute
Join Nancy Guthrie as she talks with Andrew Sach about how the more we keep our eyes and ears open for Old Testament imagery and allusions, the less strange the book of Revelation will seem.| Crossway
Previous posts in this series: Jesus Mythicism and Historical Knowledge, Part 1: Historical Facts and Probability Jesus Mythicism and Historical Knowledge, Part 2: Certainty and Uncertainty in History Jesus Mythicism and Historical Knowledge, Part 3: Prediction and History * For| Vridar
The apostle Paul quoted Scripture more than a hundred times in his thirteen canonical letters, but he never identified the version of Scripture that he used. Why bother?—you may think—everyone knows he used the Septuagint (LXX). He was obviously not quoting Scripture in the original language, because he was writing in Greek, not Hebrew, so […]| Text & Canon Institute
iStock Paleographers perform an important initial step in the textual criticism of the Bible, from studying the development of ancient Greek handwriting to determining the date and provenance of undated manuscripts. One maxim of textual criticism is that, all things being equal, the earliest readings are preferred. However, ancient literary manuscripts often were not dated by […]| Text & Canon Institute
At one point in The Good Place, Eleanor and the gang find themselves in the Medium Place. Now if we think of the Bad Place as more-or-less hell and the Good Place as more-or-less heaven, then the Medium Place is whatever lies in between. It’s neither good nor bad—it just kind of is, it just exists. And while in The Good Place the Medium Place is created for one, precisely down-the-middle person who deserved neither The post The Medium Place appeared first on Conciliar Post.| Conciliar Post
Nancy Guthrie discusses the book of Revelation and how we actually can understand its central message, encouraging us to accept the blessing promised to those who “hear and keep” this book.| Crossway
These past few weeks I've been trying to untangle my way through the data strands that seem to relate to Christian origins and early development (again) and I find myself coming back to the chimerical figure of Paul (again). When I reach this point, as I have done so many times before, I tend to| Vridar
Jesus' healing of the deaf mute saying Ephphatha raises questions-did he truly work miracles? If so was his motivation compassion or glory?| Crossroads Initiative
Join Nancy Guthrie as she talks with Thomas Schreiner about the person and work of Paul, particularly his theological foundations, his work as a missionary, and the many problems he faced.| Crossway
Join Nancy Guthrie as she talks with pastor Andrew Young about a framework for understanding both divine power and human weakness on display throughout the book of Acts.| Crossway
Paul's letter to the Galatians has "always" been understood to have been as certainly "Pauline" as his letters to the Romans and Corinthians. Other New Testament epistles (e.g. Ephesians, 1 and 2 Timothy) have fared less well in the authenticity stakes along with reasons explaining why someone other| Vridar
Today, Codex Vaticanus is treated as a premier biblical manuscript. It was not always so. This article explains how scholars changed their opinions about the importance of the text in Codex Vaticanus.| Text & Canon Institute
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The influential French theologian who was excommunicated by the Pope for his views, Alfred Loisy, concluded that there were two different "Pauls" authoring the main letters attributed to him. The reason Paul's letters are generally considered "hard to understand" is because they intertwine two incom| Vridar
I have copied here a translation from an 1886 publication of ... ... two researchers from different fields of knowledge .... A. Pierson is the theologian ..., whose work has made him known as an astute and fearless critic .... S. A. Naber, on the other hand, is a philologist and thus offers a guara| Vridar
The previous post presented a historical Dutch language criticism of Galatians and here I offer a sceptical analysis from France. I have selected from Henri Turmel's discussion those paragraphs that address Galatians 1-2, -- as per my earlier explanation. In my coming post on J.C. O'Neill's detailed| Vridar
The mainstream consensus is that only seven letters of the thirteen attributed to Paul in the New Testament are authentic: 1 and 2 Corinthians, 1 Thessalonians, Romans, Philippians, Galatians…and Philemon; while the rest are either forgeries (Ephesians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, and 2 Thessalonians) or misattributions (Hebrews is often listed as a fourteenth […]| Richard Carrier Blogs
Revelation was used widely in the early church, then doubted in the East in the fourth century, but eventually accepted again. This article explores the reception of Revelation in the biblical canon.| Text & Canon Institute
In this episode, your intrepid cohosts learn why they need to get literate. “Bible literate,” to be exact. According to author and Bible teacher Jen Wilkin, Bible literacy is a vital tool when it comes to apologetics—and “Bible literacy” is not the same thing as “biblical literacy.” Biblical literacy means knowing about the Bible. Bible […] The post Jen Wilkin: How Bible Literacy Equips the Church to Defend the Faith appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
Michael Kruger, president of the Charlotte campus of the Reformed Theological Seminary and preeminent scholar of early Christianity, joins us to talk about the reliability of the copies and the canon of the New Testament. The post Michael Kruger: What If Our Bibles Don’t Have the Right Words? appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
What if every single copy of the Bible went fluttering away, never to be seen again? If that happened, surely all of our knowledge about Jesus would be gone as well, right? Not so fast, says cold-case detective J. Warner Wallace.| Timothy Paul Jones
Sermon Introduction: This being Palm Sunday, we will be reading about the Triumphal Entry and what happened right after that. The Triumphal Entry kicks off Holy Week, the last days of Jesus’ …| Frank Luke - Writer
I have been advised by Peter Lang Publishers that a paperback version of “The Case for a Proto-Gospel”, my peer-reviewed treatise on the literary origins of the Gospels, should be at the printers by mid-June.…Read More| Bible, Myth, and History
Beyond the signs vs. non-signs argument above, might there be other indicators that we are not supposed to read verses Matthew 24:29–41 chronologically?| Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary
St. Augustine of Hippo (stained glass; location unknown) 1John 3 [1] Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. [2] Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not […]| Christian Platonism
This is a summary of each episode related to baptism from Michael Heiser’s Naked Bible Podcast. Please note that these …| Ex Vitæ Verborum
The Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24–25 is the longest prophetic section in the NT outside of the book of Revelation. If the next prophesied event that believers are looking forward to is their gathering to meet the Lord in the air, you might expect our Lord to refer to this event in his lengthy prophetic discourse. So, does our Lord Jesus refer to what is commonly called the rapture in Matthew 24 and 25? In one passage, it appears that he might, but it is a debated point.| Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary
On the 6th Sunday of Luke, the great Redeemer of the human race, while He was in the land of the Gadarenes, opposite Galilee, relieves, redeems and liberates a man from a terrible threat. The ‘sick’ servant in today’s Gospel…| PEMPTOUSIA
‘Therefore become merciful, as your Father is merciful’. If we read the literature of the ancient Greek sages and, indeed, that of wise people from all over the world, we see that, in their efforts to define what is just,…| PEMPTOUSIA
The Apostle Paul, after being freed from his first imprisonment in Rome, went to Crete with his valued companion, Titus. After a short period of apostolic activity, The Apostle Paul made Titus the Bishop of Crete to continue the…| PEMPTOUSIA
