Hat tip to Shaun , who directed me to the fact that Ben Witherington blogged on each chapter of Bart’s book back when it came out, some years ago. The first of the series is here . I post this even though it’s well after the fact because I get a lot of...
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Naked Bible Podcast Episode 132: ETS-SBL Interviews with Scholars – Part 5
During the recent annual meetings for biblical studies scholars held in San Antonio, Dr. Heiser interviewed a number of scholars about their recent work. In Part 5 of those interviews, we meet Dr. John Walton (Old Testament professor at Wheaton College), Dr. Ben...
Parts 2 through 9 of Ben Witherington’s Review of The Unseen Realm
Yes, you read that correctly – 9 parts. I’ve been out of commission for about a week with grading, travel time, and now in an intensive teaching week with “Fern and Audrey” and a dozen other folks. So … I fell behind keeping track of...
Ben Witherington Review of The Unseen Realm, Part 1
I’m grateful that Dr. Ben Witherington has taken the time to not only read my book, The Unseen Realm, but also to blog about it. Here is the first installment of his review, which took the form of an interview/exchange with me. Ben is a well-known New Testament...
How Do Scholars Know the Occasion and Audience of a Gospel?
I recently came across this short but interesting piece by NT scholar Ben Witherington entitled, “ Latinisms, Western Diction, and the Provenance of Mark’s Gospel .” Despite the jargon-loaded title, certainly not designed to attract any lay...
Was Jesus’ Father a Roman Soldier?
In case you haven’t heard of the “Pantera/Panthera” tradition of Jesus’ lineage, here’s a moderately lengthy but readable discussion of it on Ben Witherington’s blog. The post is a couple years old and was originally posted in...