I sure hope the fonts come through on my title. But if they don’t, א ת BS = aleph-taw BS. I’m guessing everyone knows what the last two letters mean if they can’t identify the first two Hebrew letters. (Note: taw is also transliterated and...
By now most readers will have heard about the new book by Simcha Jacobivici (not a typo) and his academic co-author Dr. Barrie Wilson. In short, it’s an embarrassment. And that’s saying something given what Simcha (whom I and others have affectionately...
New Testament scholar Craig Evans recently wrote this pointed, detailed review of Reza Aslan’s book, Zealot. The review spans several pages, so make sure to click through at the bottom of the first page.Evans has a long scholarly publishing resume and is known...
A few days ago I exchanged emails with Cris Putnam who blogs at Logos Apologia. The conversation was in regard to how Dr. Joseph Farrell had published certain ideas about the name Yahweh in cuneiform texts that people who are actually in this field (ancient Semitic...
Yes, you read that correctly. Jason Colavito just posted about this piece of wacky Bible interpretation. It's a good post, made entertaining by the fact that the notion of pterosaurs in the Bible comes to us from Ken Ham's creation ministry. It's biblical paleobabble...
The Exposing Pseudoastronomy podcast devoted a recent episode to this long held myth. It’s a classic mis-reading of the Bible, which never actually makes the claim, though church authorities of all stripes assumed it (assisted by “creatively” reading...
I’ve had several readers over the past several months ask me to comment on a post authored by Chuck Missler entitled, “Meanings of the Names in Genesis 5.” The essay puts forth the idea that the list of names in Genesis 5, stretching from Adam to...
Ah, the paleobabbling media now gives us proof that it is also clueless with respect to intellectual discourse. Mark Goodacre reports that Nicole Austin, the Associate Producer on The Resurrection Tomb Mystery documentary (The Jesus Discovery in Canada) has accused...
Okay, I know — it’s beating a dead horse. But, I was reminded of the Bible Code today by this recent rehearsal of the nonsense at the Skeptophilia Blog. And since we’re beating dead horses, I should remind readers that I wrote a short book debunking...
In case readers have been following comments to my earlier posts on this biblical paleobabble issue, I decided to make things convenient. Please note that they may not be any more decipherable, since the articles I link to below require at least a decent grasp of the...
The votes are all in, and by a very narrow margin (3 votes), “bunkagesis” has been selected as the term of choice for recognizing egregiously awful examples of handling Scripture. I can’t think of a better way to say “please put the Bible down...
Contest voting is pretty tight, as the graphic shows. No sign of a clear consensus yet, so I’ll be leaving the survey live for a while yet. Not sure if Harold Camping’s latest nugget of incoherence will sway voters, either. In case you haven’t heard...
In honor of today’s blazingly stupid (and failed) rapture prediction by Harold Camping, I thought I’d coin a new term to use for Bible crackpottery. I can’t decide between two alternatives. I was actually hoping he’d be right since I’ve...
Had to direct you all to this succinct list of spurious material that many of you have probably heard from a pulpit or on the radio. Kudos again to Todd Bolen for alerting me to this. Here are some that made the list, along with some links for more detail): The “eye...
Some of you may be interested to know that my 2001 debate with Grant Jeffrey on Coast to Coast AM (then with Art Bell — the old Art Bell Show) will be replayed this weekend (Saturday night). Wow. 2001 – my grad school days. The link has the show set for...