I just saw that my old published journal article on this subject is no longer accessible online (it appeared in a peer-reviewed e-journal back in the day). Here is the citation, along with the PDF. Heiser, Michael. “Did Jesus Allow for Reincarnation? Assessing...
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Graduating from Strong’s Word Study Tools for Better Word Study: Logos’s Reverse Interlinears
I decided this morning to do a quick screen capture video on reverse interlinears. This tool was pioneered in digital form by my employer, Logos Bible Software. I’m asked repeatedly about how to do word studies, so I created this as an answer to that question (I...
Peter Gurry Interview: How Do We Know We Have an Accurate Copy of the New Testament?
We’ve interviewed Peter Gurry before on the Naked Bible podcast, and I’ve blogged some of his posts over at the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog. Peter is a bona fide New Testament textual critic, so he’s a good authority for the question posed in...
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 234: Apps and Art
Check out some new Bible study tools, Christian art, and a way to help the persecuted church! Part 1: Johnny Cisneros – Bible Study Apps for Word Studies in Colossians What are some of the best Bible study apps today? And how can you use those study apps to gain...
Assessing Bart Ehrman’s Logic on the Unreliability of New Testament Textual Transmission
Peter Gurry of the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog has a concise, clear-headed response to some of the ways Bart Ehrman defends the thesis that the textual transmission of the Greek New Testament wasn’t very reliable: “Evaluating Ehrman’s Comparative...
Free Video Course on New Testament Textual Criticism
The New Testament Textual Criticism blog posted this link to Dan Wallace’s course on the basics of New Testament textual criticism. It was created under the auspices of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM), Dan Wallace’s...
Getting Started in Septuagint Study
This short post over at the Exegetical Tools blog draws attention to accessible introductions to the Septuagint. Several books on the Septuagint are mentioned: Invitation to the Septuagint , by Jobes and Silva The Septuagint (Understanding the Bible and Its World) ,...
Of Yehovah and Jehovah’s Witnesses
A week or so ago I saw something on Twitter that made me shake my head. An apparently well meaning Hebrew enthusiast gleefully reported that, after searching through hundreds of manuscripts, he’d found thousands of places where the divine name (YHWH) was...
For Those Interested in New Testament Textual Criticism and the Byzantine-Majority Text
I recently received this announcement from my Danish friend, Ulrik Sandborg-Peterson, who developed the very useful Paradigms Master Pro Greek and Hebrew parsing practice tool. Ulrik has been instrumental in bringing resources for the study of the Byzantine-Majority...
The Myth of an Aramaic Original New Testament
I get questions about whether the New Testament was originally written in Aramaic. Some really aren’t questions; they are (I presume) well-meaning people trying to inform me of the “fact” of Aramaic primacy. In light of those sorts of emails, it was...
Not Good News: The New NAR “Passion Translation” of the Bible
This just popped into my In box. I apologize for being so behind the curve on this but, as I noted on my “About” page, I don’t follow the NAR (New Apostolic Reformation) nor do I think its distinctive teachings are scriptural. But lots of movements...
Article on Rethinking Biblical Language Instruction by Naked Bible Podcast Guests Just Published
Last November I interviewed Dr. Carl Sanders and Dr. Thomas Hudgins about their controversial paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. The paper argues that major shifts in thinking about how biblical languages are taught and what...
GE: The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek
Larry Hurtado recently posted some thoughts on this “new” Greek-English lexicon. It’s actually an English translation of a lexicon formerly only available in Italian. Hurtado explains: This is the English translation from the 3rd edition (2013) of...
What is the Meaning of BAPTIZEIN?
Follow the link below to what, in my experience, is the most lengthy scholarly treatment of the relevant primary sources for the meaning of baptizein (“baptize”) available. The article just appeared online for free, though it was published in 2011: Eckhard...
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 129: ETS-SBL Interviews with Scholars – Part 2
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 2 of those interviews, we meet Dr. Andy Naselli (New Testament professor at Bethlehem College and...