This episode continues the series on studying the Bible at the word level. The episode utilizes the audio of a short screen capture video that Dr. Heiser created to illustrate a range of exegetical fallacies that amateur researchers frequently commit when doing Greek...
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Naked Bible Podcast Episode 030: Introducing Word Level Study
It's been several weeks since I've been able to do another podcast episode, so here we go. In this episode, the series on taking Bible study seriously transitions to word level research by overviewing some directions we'll take as we think about studying biblical...
Alexander the Great and UFOs
Bet you never thought you'd see those two subjects in the same sentence! Welcome to the wacky world of ancient astronaut twaddle. A reader recently sent me a link to this essay on the Chronicon Mirabilium blog: "Did Alexander the Great Really See UFOs?" It's a good...
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 10 Uploaded
The series on baptism continues with another discussion of a problem passage, Acts 2:38. In this episode, Dr. Michael Heiser explores the meaning of Acts 2:38, often misunderstood as teaching that baptism causes the forgiveness of sins. He focuses on the Greek word...
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 009 Uploaded
This episode discusses another problem passage related to baptism: Acts 22:16. In this episode, Dr. Michael Heiser analyzes Acts 22:16, where Paul recounts his conversion and is told by Ananias to “get up, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name.”...
What To Me And To You?
While doing some reverse interlinear work a few days ago, I came across Josh 15:18. The verse concerns Caleb's newly-won bride: 18 When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she got off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, What do you want?...
Abortion, Luke 1:15, and Syntactical Databases
A couple months ago a friend sent me a link to a New Testament study that was apparently being popularized within certain segments of the Church to legitimize abortion. The argument is patently illogical, but that isn't why I'm blogging about it. There's more to it...
The Greek Apocryphal Gospels in Digital Form
My employer, Logos Bible Software, recently put the Greek Apocryphal Gospels on pre-pub. My colleague, Rick Brannan, blogged today over at the Logos blog about that product and those gospels. These gospel documents are not canonical. As Rick points out, they provide a...
Antikythera Mechanism Report
Thanks go to Charles Jones at Ancient World Online for posting this "pre-print" article, "The Cosmos in the Antikythera Mechanism" (due to the size, it is best to right-click and "Save File As"; you will also have to re-size the file in Adobe Reader, since the images...
All Commentaries are Not Created Equal, Part 3: Commentary Recommendations
In response to my two previous posts about commentaries, several readers have asked me for recommendations on commentaries. This is a little like asking me to recommend a Bible translation (see here for my thoughts on that), but this request actually calls for more...
Back to Blogging, and Important Books about Biblical Words
Well, I'm finally back from a week on the east coast. That means things will start to return to normal (although I find myself right in the middle of the annual whirlwind of preparing for the annual scholarly meetings I attend - ETS and SBL). I hope to resume looking...
Apostolic Fathers Greek-English Interlinear
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up on another cool new resource from Logos! This interlinear of the early church fathers (Greek text and English translation in a searchable interlinear) just went on pre-pub ($29.95 for a limited time). You can read all about it...
All Commentaries are Not Created Equal, Part 1
In my experience, most students who venture beyond just reading the Bible have heard of Bible commentaries. But in case someone reading this hasn't heard the term before, I should explain. A Bible commentary is just what it sounds like -- a book that provides comments...
On the Presumed Corruption of the Greek New Testament
Many of you know that Bart Ehrman has made something of a small fortune on arguing that early scribes "corrupted" the transmission of the Greek New Testament by making "orthodox corrections" [read: changes that reflected orthodox predilections about Jesus] during the...
A Plug for a NT Vocabulary Resource
Larry Hurtado's endorsement of the usefulness of Moulton and Milligan here is spot on. Wouldn't it be cool to have that resource in digital form for searching? Uh ... yeah, it is.