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Chapter 6 of Earl Doherty’s Jesus: Neither God Nor Man
My blogging through Earl Doherty’s book Jesus: Neither God Nor Man continues here with chapter 6. For those who wish to read a post trying to put a positive spin on the weak and unpersuasive claims in...
View ArticleReading Romans as about Christians and not about Christians
As I have been going through Romans once again with my Sunday school class, it has increasingly become evident to me how hard it is – and at the same time how important it is – to realize that this...
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The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism
I am grateful to Eerdmans for sending me a free review copy of The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism. A dictionary is particularly hard to review, and so no futile attempt will be made here to do...
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High on Christology Smack(down)?
Mike Bird has a post reflecting on some of the interactions about Christology in the latest issue of Expository Times, which included reviews of books on this subject both by my Doktorvater James Dunn...
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Review of Holger Michael Zellentin, Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian...
I’m grateful to Mohr Siebeck for having sent me a free review copy of Holger Michael Zellentin’s new book, Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish & Christian Literature (Texts & Studies in Ancient...
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To Galilee by way of Armageddon
I was excited when I saw that the route to Tiberias, and to Afula where I would be meeting Eldad Keynan who kindly agreed to show me around the Galilee, was by way of Megiddo, even though not all...
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Review of Earl Doherty’s Jesus: Neither God Nor Man chapter 9
Chapter 9 of Doherty’s book Jesus: Neither God Nor Man is a mere six pages in length. Into this small space is packed, first of all, a brief presentation of Platonism and Stoicism, focusing on...
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Nick Norelli on Sacrifice, Monotheism and Christology
Nick Norelli posted an entry on his blog about sacrificial worship, connecting it with James D. G. Dunn’s book Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? and also with my own book, The Only True God.Nick...
View ArticleWhat Can You Assume People Know About Jesus?
Those of us who teach are aware (or should be aware!) of the relevance of prior knowledge to education. One of the things I wrestle with most is the fact that, in the same class, I may have students...
View ArticleShai Held on Reading the Bible Selectively and Morally
Darrell Pursiful shared excerpts from and a link to an article by Shai Held on the use of the Bible in Judaism. The same points could be made for any religious tradition with a sacred text of key...
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The Praying Jewbacca
Jeff Carter is continuing his depiction of sci-fi and comic book characters in poses and frameworks of religious iconography. Here’s his latest, which he calls “The Praying Jewbacca” since it is based...
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God’s Ironic Hatred in Romans 9?
This past Sunday in my Sunday school class, we reached Romans 9. I was struck recently for the first time by the possibility that Paul’s use of texts in this section might be profoundly and perhaps...
View ArticleProf. Matthew Morgenstern on the History of Jewish Aramaic
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Doctor Who: The Ark
The title to the Doctor Who episode “The Ark” immediately hints at a Biblical reference, and in the episode, when the Doctor, Stephen and Dodo realize that they are on a spaceship that has rescued...
View ArticleWeb Yeshiva
Today I learned about the site Web Yeshiva, which has links to a wide range of important classic Jewish texts -the Tanach, Mishnah, Talmudim, Midrashim, other commentaries, and more. I’ve added it to...
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Jeff Carter Blogs About The Only True God
Jeff Carter has been reading my book The Only True God and yesterday he blogged about it. Please click through and take a look at what he has to say. Thanks, Jeff, for blogging about the book!(I’ve...
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Nerds Reconsidering Star Wars Religion
A recent article in Tablet Magazine challenges the religious message of Star Wars in interesting ways (HT The Lead and Religion Nerd).On the one hand, the article makes some good points about the...
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Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
The Doctor Who episode “The Faceless Ones” from the Patrick Troughton era is a gripping mystery set largely in Gatwick Airport, where aliens have infiltrated and are working to abduct human young...
View ArticleNew Online Jewish Studies Resources
Two major resources that I want to share:The Cairo Genizah Collection at the Bodleian Library in Oxford (HT Dan McClellan and AWOL)The Israel Antiquities Authorities National Treasures (HT Jim West)
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Translating (Away) The Son of God
I’ve been meaning for some time to come back to a topic that has been garnering attention, the news that some Bible translations aimed at predominantly Islamic contexts were not using the phrase “son...
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