Should the Book of Enoch be in the Bible?
inspiration
We Need a Better View of Inspiration, Part 3
“We Need a Better View of Inspiration” – Part 3
We Need a Better View of Inspiration, Part 2
“We Need a Better View of Inspiration” – Part 2
We Need a Better View of Inspiration, Part 1
“We Need a Better View of Inspiration” – Part 1
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 140 – Ezekiel 24
Chapter 24 is a turning book in the book of Ezekiel. After Ezekiel’s call (Ch. 1-3), the book has, to this point, been a series of gloom-and-doom pronouncements to the exiled Jews in Babylon subverting their expectations that Jerusalem, the temple, and their friends...
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...
Should the Septuagint be Considered Inspired?
That's the question proposed for consideration in a post by a friend of mine, Gabe Martini ("Is the Septuagint a Divinely Inspired Translation?"). Nothing like a provocative headline! I thought you Septuagint fans out there would like it. Gabe is Orthodox and so he's...
Survey on “What Troubles You About Inspiration?” And a Rant
Thanks to all of you (nearly 50) who responded to my survey. It's still open so that others can chime in. I'll be using these thoughts as fodder for my trip to Nashville this week, as its goal is to experiment with creating some content / teaching videos for YouTube....
The Law of Moses: Does it Read Like Moses Wrote It?
[Note: In the last post I presumed this post would be about the New Testament; I'm putting that off just a bit. For the first two posts on this topic, see here and here.] In my last post concerning the authorship of the Pentateuch, I listed two observations that led...
The Errancy and Inerrancy Problem Illustrated: The Case of Genesis 48:21-22
I was recently received a question about inerrancy from a student in my MEMRA institute. Readers here know I've spent a lot of time on that subject (see the archived page). My short answer was that the difficulty in talking about inerrancy and errancy is defining what...
Paul and Jesus: Their Use of the Old Testament
I will return to Amos 9 in the next post, but I came across these two articles on the web recently and wanted to make them part of the discussion / your consideration. One is on Paul's use of the OT (it draws on the next article) and the other is on how Jesus used the...
The OT Cited in the NT: Peter’s (Luke’s) Use of Psalm 16:8-11 in Acts 2:24-28
I've decided to open with this oft-debated passage. It's a good one, in that it introduces the sorts of issues that make this phenomenon important. Here is a PDF of the primary texts involved, along with commentary from Beale and Carson's edited commentary on the use...
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...
How Can You Be a Textual Critic and Not Lose Your Faith?
This is something I never struggled with, primarily (I guess) because I never bought into seeing inspiration as an event vs. a process ruled by providence. But some people do, so here's a link to an interview with a real life textual critic. (Point: Many scholars in...
Does Higher Criticism Attempt to Destroy the Bible?
This link will lead you to what is actually Part IV of a series of posts over on Scotteriology. I think the discussions are worthwhile, though I may not agree in all respects with the way things are articulated. Granted, I think certain critical approaches lack...