Some careful analysis here by Rafael Rodriguez, courtesy of the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog. And you know what makes his critique so enjoyable? He applies logic. Think of that! I once said in a doctoral seminar that I thought a course in logic should be a...
Bart Ehrman
More Bart-Capades
Boy am I tired of getting questions on Bart Ehrman's stuff. Put simply, Bart is a fundamentalist, someone for whom his pet subjects only have two answers: his and the one he wants to caricature. Bart sees no gray areas; tolerates no nuancing of questions and responses...
Bart Ehrman On Coast to Coast AM Tomorrow Night
In case you like late-night talk radio, you might want to tune in. The C2C site has a list of affiliates by state to catch the show. I've been on C2C many times. The host for this one will be Ian Punnett. Ian is a seminary grad (went to both Univ of Chicago Div school...
Peter Williams (New Testament Textual Critic) Debates Bart Ehrman On British Radio
In case you thought otherwise, Bart Ehrman's idea have not gone un-protested in the field of textual criticism. You just never hear that in the popular media. Bart Ehrman of the University of North Carolina and Peter J. Williams of Tyndale House, Cambridge...
The Secret Gospel of Mark: Genuine or Hoax?
The Secret Gospel of Mark (also called "Secret Mark") has been controversial for some time (click here for an overview). Aside from purporting to be another gospel, the controversy is primarily about a passage in it that has dialogue between Jesus and an unnamed...
The Myth of the LATENESS of the Belief in Jesus as Incarnate Deity
At first glance, you might wonder why this is PaleoBabble fodder. Having just returned from the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (this year in Boston), I was reminded again how even scholars have an insular perspective. This is especially true of...