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 6-10 PT. I...
Dead Sea Scrolls
Dead Sea Scroll Conspiracy Dies — Again
The first time was a few years after the scrolls were discovered when, contrary to nitwits like Baigent and Leigh ("The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception"), the scrolls began to be published. (For an account of the publishing history of the scrolls -- other than simply...
Cambridge University Digitization Project
Certainly a worthwhile project. Have a look!
Apologetics and the Dead Sea Scrolls
I have to say I can identify with this post, though I'd skip the scatological language in his assessment. Still, it sums up the typical "interest trajectory" you'll see with the scrolls. By the way, if you want to be exposed to the worst (most bone-headed and...
John Hobbins’ Fourth Installment on the Canon
John Hobbins' fourth installment is about establishing coherent tests of canonicity. Too often the tests proposed by apologetics textbooks and other works commonly circulated in evangelicalism are simplistic and self-serving, designed to point readers (only) to the...
Apocalypse of Gabriel Stone Update
From April DeConick's blog. Editor's note: link's content is reproduced here.From The Forbidden Gospels: Report on the Apocalypse of Gabriel Stone, originally published on Jan. 2, 2009: Report on the Apocalypse of Gabriel Stone Over the holidays, I did have a chance...
The Naked Bible’s Thoughts on Inspiration, Part 4 – Which Edition of the Book of Joshua Originated with God but not the Human Writers?
My focus for this post is Joshua 8:30-35. For centuries scholars have considered the placement of Joshua 8:30-35 to be a odd problem in that book. The reason is that it is completely out of place (or so it seems) with the campaigns of Joshua. In Joshua 5 the new...
Was Cain Fathered by the Devil? No, Wait — Extraterrestrials
I've gotten more emails on this topic than I can shake a stick at, so I've decided to blog it and then just direct people to this post in the future. I don't know who started this on the internet-probably one of those "I found secret knowledge about the Bible" people...
Gospel of Judas Apology
Let's file this under the "too little, too late" category. National Geographic has apologized for its television special on the Gospel of Judas. A new edition of the gospel with a "thoroughly updated translation" has now been put forth which, to cite Gnostic scholar...