I get a lot of email about my views on Yahweh and divine plurality. You’d think people would find my material via Google or my divine council website, but I guess not. I’m making this page for you all, of course, but also to provide myself a convenient one-stop link...
Divine Council & Supernatural Worldview
The Divine Council and Early Christian Writers
Readers familiar with me and my work know that I think our theology needs to derive from the text, not tradition. This applies pointedly to the Old Testament -- the three-quarters of our Bible upon which our New Testament theology ought to be erected to have any hope...
Regional SBL Papers
[Note: For other posts on Mike's work on the divine council, click here for the archive.] [Note to those who left comments on this post: I have fixed the bad link in the earlier post.] Here are my two regional SBL papers (keep in mind that in both I spent part of my...
Dan McClellen's Response to Yours Truly, and My Rejoinder Points
Hope you all aren't getting bored with this. For those interested, Dan McClellan has posted a response on his blog to my thoughts on his SBL paper of last year. You can all go read it in full. I'm taking a few moments here to add "rejoinder thoughts" to his most...
The Function of the Divine Council in Heavenly Worship: Piety, not Mysticism: Part 4
[Note: This post continues where Part 3 left off. It includes the rest of the main biblical as well as non-biblical ancient Jewish texts.-- MSH] Psalm 97:7–9. “All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; worship him, all you...
Bible Project Archive of Spiritual Beings Videos On Which Mike Was a Consultant
Everyone - I just saw this link from the Bible Project in my Twitter feed. It's a one-stop page / collection of the videos in their spiritual beings series. I was a consultant on the scripts for these videos. It's pretty convenient, given the amount of material they...
The Function of the Divine Council in Heavenly Worship: Piety, not Mysticism: Part 5
For the previous post and links to earlier parts of this series by Stephen Huebscher, click here. -MSH SUMMARY OF TEXTS. After surveying the most common biblical and Second Temple texts (together with a few older ones from the ancient Near East), we can see that the...
Jesus and the Morning Star
One of the questions I get with some frequency concerns the phrase "(bright) morning star." The gist of the question usually concerns some presumed relationship between Jesus and Lucifer (the question, as we will see, is something of a misnomer all on its own). That's...
Bible Project Video on Angels and Cherubim
Here's the latest in the series of Bible Project videos I was blessed to consult on. Enjoy!
New Bible Project Video on the Divine Council
Hat's off to all the folks working hard at the Bible Project! I appreciate the Bible Project's attention to the content of my books, The Unseen Realm and it's "lite" (no footnotes!) version, Supernatural. Nice to see biblical theology viewed through the...
Sanhedrin Invites Nikki Haley To Be “President Of Organization Of 70 Nations”
Hat tip to Tom Horn for this one. You can read the article here ((published at BreakingIsraelNews.com). Here's a paragraph: During their session during the recent Hanukkah holiday, the Sanhedrin decided to invite Nikki Haley, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United...
Videos from Missouri Conference Uploaded to Naked Bible YouTube Channel
The videos from the conference of last October are now finished and uploaded. Thanks go to Shaun for making these possible, and to Will for recording the event! Among the topics are videos on how Zeitgeist gets it wrong and the unfortunate story of how flawed Bible...
The Plural Elohim of Psalm 82: Gods or Men?
[Note: For other posts on Mike's work on the divine council, click here for the archive.] At last week's annual ETS (Evangelical Theological Society) meeting I read two papers. The first was entitled. "What Is / Are (an) Elohim?" It dealt with why the reality of...
Divine Plurality in the Dead Sea Scrolls
UPDATE: I have revised this paper and it has been published in the scholarly journal, Tyndale Bulletin.] [Note: For other posts on Mike's work on the divine council, click here for the archive.] I'm currently at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA for the Pacific...
Mike’s ETS Paper Now on Kindle
I posted my ETS paper ("The Divine Council in the Pentateuch") in PDF form a few days ago. It's now available in Kindle format.