Common Denominator

For the next three weeks, a few of us are reading through Peter Enns' book Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of ...

Originally posted January 8, 2009 We received notification over Christmas break that we are now officially accredited as an institution to o...

We can at least wonder what Judaism would look like today if the Maccabean crisis of 167-64BC had not occurred. Indeed, we can wonder wheth...

For the next few days, I will keep the announcment of IWU's MDIV on top, but will still post some of the other things I'm working on...

On the eleventh and twelfth day of Meier, his Marginal Jew brought to me, 12) some more final endnotes, 11) a chronology of Jesus' life...

The beginning of the semester at IWU has slowed down finishing Meier and any interesting Epiphany post I might do (I had originally thought ...

This article in the Washington Post thinks so. I certainly have no time for Hamas. But is Israel doing the right thing? I've wondere...

... he says of "katabaptists" (groups against infant baptism=today's Baptists), "And when [Satan's attacks on the Ref...

1.2 The Problem of Meaning At the heart of the problem of Christian Scripture is the problem of meaning in general. In popular usage, words ...

On the tenth day of Meier, his Marginal Jew brought to me, 10) Jesus' family, 9) a long stretch of endnotes, 8) Jesus' language, ed...

On the ninth day of Meier, his Marginal Jew brought to me, 9) a long stretch of endnotes, 8) Jesus' language, education, and social sta...

Now that 2008 is over, I thought I might mention the stats I have on this blog and my archive site in terms of unique visitors. According to...

I know I'm a day late, but hey, I can pre-date it... On the seventh day of Meier, his Marginal Jew brought to me, 7) origins of Jesus o...

It doesn't feel as futuristic as that number sure seemed twenty or thirty years ago! I certainly thought we'd be further along scie...

On the sixth day of Meier, his Marginal Jew brought to me, 6) part 2 criteria for the historical Jesus, 5) part 1 criteria for the historic...

I watched Memento (Latin for "remember") last night and this afternoon. It's messed up my mind. It's a guy who only has...

On the fifth day of Meier, his Marginal Jew brought to me, 5) part 1 criteria for the historical Jesus, 4) agrapha and Nag Hammadi , 3) Tac...

On the fourth day of Meier, his Marginal Jew brought to me, 4) agrapha and Nag Hammadi, 3) Tacitus and other Jewish sources ; 2) Josephus a...

1.1 The Problem of Christian Scripture The contemporary problem of Christian Scripture is a by-product of two primary features of modern tim...