Well, the Naked Bible Reading Group on the NPP has started up. I gave everyone a week to read Kent Yinger's short book on it (The New Perspective on Paul: An Introduction), and posting has begun. What follows is my most recent post. I thought it might be useful to...
Second Temple Judaism
Perspective on the “New Perspective” on Paul
If anyone has read the comments recently, you know that I wasn't planning on taking this topic. I had been thinking about the Pentateuch authorship issue, as noted a few days ago. But, over the past couple of weeks I've had several people email me out of the blue...
Divine Plurality in the Dead Sea Scrolls
UPDATE: I have revised this paper and it has been published in the scholarly journal, Tyndale Bulletin.] [Note: For other posts on Mike's work on the divine council, click here for the archive.] I'm currently at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA for the Pacific...
Trinitarian Jewish Thinking Before Jesus
Many of you know I have a longstanding interest in what scholars call Jewish binitarian monotheism. My site on the two powers in heaven is an introduction to that topic. With that backdrop, I am at times asked about Jewish trinitarian thinking prior to Christianity. ...
The Use of the OT in the NT
I had occasion to send this file to someone by email who asked whether or not NT writers used Second Temple Jewish interpretive methods when handling the OT. They do. We've talked about this subject a couple of times before, so I thought you'd be interested in the...
Class 4 – Jesus & the Old Testament
This is the third in a series of lectures Dr. Heiser did at Grace Church Bellingham. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWM8L01cAkY
Micromorphologic Examination of the ‘Gabriel Revelation’ Stone
An update from April DeConick on the Gabriel Inscription. Editor's note: content of the link has been reproduced below:From The Forbidden Gospels: Article Note: "Micromorphologic Examination of the 'Gabriel Revelation' Stone (Yuval Goren), originally published January...
Apocalypse of Gabriel Stone Update
From April DeConick's blog. Editor's note: link's content is reproduced here.From The Forbidden Gospels: Report on the Apocalypse of Gabriel Stone, originally published on Jan. 2, 2009: Report on the Apocalypse of Gabriel Stone Over the holidays, I did have a chance...
Still More on Gabriel’s Inscription
Israel Knohl and J. Collins go at it here. Editor's note: the text of the linked blog post is included below for easy-access. Original content, published August 26, 2008, found here at John Hobbins' Ancient Hebrew Poetry blog: Collins vs. Knohl on the Vision of...
April DeConick on Gabriel’s Revelation
This pertains to the ignorant media hysteria over the Gabriel inscription (blogged about earlier). April DeConcick of Rice University has questions. She is correct in that the 2nd temple texts cited by Israel Knohl may have been revised by Christians, and therefore...
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...