Our 20th Q & A episode is now live. In Episode 154 of the Naked Bible Podcast, Dr. Michael Heiser takes on an eclectic and theologically rich batch of listener questions. Kicking off with a question about why a bronze serpent healed snake-bitten Israelites in...
genealogies
The Genealogies of Genesis 5, Mathematical Approaches, and Theological Messaging
Below is the best essay to date I've found on this fascinating topic: Lloyd Bailey, "Biblical Math as Heilgeschichte?" in Richard D. Weis and David M. Carr, eds., A Gift of God in Due Season: Essays on Scripture and Community in Honor of James A. Sanders (vol. 225;...
Math and Genesis 5’s Genealogies
In view of the recent post on the antediluvian genealogies, I thought some readers might be interested in mathematical attempts to decipher them. Here is a summary of the numbers in the genealogies in Genesis 5, excerpted from the Word Biblical Commentary (vol 1) by...
Denis Lamoureux on Biblical Genealogies
Over at the Patheos blog, Pete Enns has been posting about this short video series by Denis Lamoureux. You'll recall that Dr. Lamoureux was one of the contributors to the 4 Views on the historical Adam book. His position was "no historical Adam." He's an evolutionary...
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 response to James Tabor's book, The Jesus...