A recent guest post over at the Patheos blog author by Dr. David Lincicum, will likely be of interest to Naked Bible readers: Lament for a Maternal Home (or, Is There No Place for Believing Criticism in Evangelicalism?). I appreciated the essay. Though I don't know...
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Naked Bible Podcast Latest Episode Uploaded
Just a heads up; I uploaded the third episode of the podcast just now. It continues the series on baptism. Remember, you can get the file directly through the link and iTunes subscription right away, but it may take 24 hours for the archive located on this site to be...
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All Commentaries are Not Created Equal, Part 4
This is actually a short follow-up to Part 3, where I recommended some commentary sets. In that post I had two links to web pages on the Denver Seminary website to their own commentary recommendations. I have gone through that site and highlighted the volumes I have...
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...
Historically-Conditioned Scriptures
This short piece was posted by Larry Hurtado today. Good food for thought, especially in the context of our (now old) discussion of inspiration (which we will revisit at some point). Larry targets fundamentalists (read: black and white thinkers) on both the...
Get the Entire Gottingen Septaugint for 90 Percent Off
That's right. No kidding. For those who know don't know what the Göttingen LXX is, it's the premier critical text edition of the Septuagint. There are 24 volumes in print, each of which go for $150 or more in print. That's $3600 for the set. Plus it's in electronic...
The Absence of Satan in the Old Testament
Several commenters to the last post asked for some information on the satan. Although English Bibles continue the practice of capitalizing the word "satan" in passages like Job 1 and 2, those passage do not have a specific individual in mind -- that is, "satan" in...
Interesting Article on Phoebe as a Deacon
I hope to post again on baptism this weekend, but in the meantime, here is an interesting (short) article on the Greek descriptions of Phoebe. I've posted on the "women in ministry" issue a bit before, so I figured some of you might be interested in this. Previous...
Book Recommendation Related to the Inspiration Discussion
Some of the posts on this topic have dealt with the looseness of how NT authors quote / use the OT. I've given a couple of examples, but if you want to see how thorny the issues are, I recommend a recent book on the subject--nay, an entire commentary on this...
Is It the Autograph, a Copy, or Something Else?
Ivan has surfaced again! Ivan emailed me this missive yesterday, so I thought I'd post it. Ivan spotlights some very interesting content in Jeremiah that pertains to our discussion. That book of Jeremiah just seems to play with our minds! Here's Ivan, between...
What’s the Point of the Inspiration Exercise?
This is a question I've raised a few times now on the blog with respect to this topic. I'm going to answer it below (or at least kick it off) in startlingly brief fashion. It will serve as a transition point into inerrancy (at least that's how I'm thinking of it...
Pre-Scientific Worldview “Problem” and Inerrancy
Taking off on Chet's lengthy response to my "Definitions of Inerrancy" post: The first thing I'd like to pursue is Chet's criticism of the word "affirm" -- I also think it's a weasel-word. You quote 1 Cor. 11:14, which says, "Does not nature itself teach you that if a...
Looking at the Inerrancy Definitions, Part 1
Let me say at the outset that I personally have no problem with the word "inerrancy" and want to embrace such a doctrine as an evangelical. My problem is that I'm not sure how to articulate what the word should mean so that it's honest, defensible, and coherent. I...
Beginning a Serious Discussion about Inerrancy
I've been thinking about inerrancy a good bit lately--not whether I want to surrender it, or whether it's a term that has any value or not. My thoughts have focused on the Peter Enns dismissal from Westminster. I think they made the wrong decision, and the reasoning...