I just wanted to put in a good word for John Barry's new book, The Resurrected Servant in Isaiah. John is a colleague of mine at Logos. Having read through some sections of John's book when it was a thesis, and having read the recommendations (Bruce Waltke was...
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The Mind-Body Problem: Summarizing the Tough Issues
Well, I'm less than a week away from our regional ETS meeting in Tacoma. The topic, of course, crafted by yours truly, is the mind-body problem. It's been a while since I posted about the positions people take on the question of whether humans truly have an immaterial...
More Media PaleoBabble on the Gabriel Stone
Sometimes I come across something that makes me wish I'd named this blog PaleoDiarrhea. I usually have that thought when the popular media dips its toe into archaeology and biblical studies (or ancient astronauts). Here's another example brought to my attention by...
New Testament Resurrection Theology Based on Ancient Egyptian Religion?
Anyone who has seen the internet video Zeitgeist likely recalls this assertion about New Testament theology. Those in academia know that Zeitgeist's content is deeply flawed, but that hardly matters, since most of the people who buy into its ideas aren't scholars or...
Sheol: The OT “Bad Place”?
In the last post I sketched out how the OT does indeed contain the idea of some sort of afterlife with God beyond and external to Sheol for the righteous. In this post, we'll look at the unrighteous who are left in Sheol. Does the OT have any sort of view of the...
Jesus as “Ghost” and “Phantom”
Here's another article to file under contextualizing the Bible with respect to its literary conventions. If you're like me, you've heard Christian apologists say something like "the New Testament resurrection stories are like nothing in the ancient world," a statement...
New Inscription and the Jewish Roots of Christianity: The “Aaargghh! Award”
My thanks to OJA, Debra, and TH (from elsewhere) for sending me the link to the NYT article entitled, "Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection." This article is especially noteworthy in that I have decided to keep tabs on hyped media stories from now...