James White recently brought up an event he describes as indicative of bigotry against Christians. He states: The anti-Christian left cares nothing about truth, or freedom of dialogue, or thought. It cares only that you agree and follow. Today’s example . Read More »

Mike Heiser has a new post up that addresses the Mosaic authorship of Exodus–Deuteronomy, and he uses some bible software to make his point (imagine that!). You should check it out. . Read More »

Maybe someone out there will find this useful. I’ve been analyzing the semantic ranges of the different ways the authors use the words that mean “deity. Read More »

Maybe someone out there will find this useful. I’ve been analyzing the semantic ranges of the different ways the authors use the words that mean “deity. Read More »

David Elkington has released six more photos on his Facebook page of what he describes as “leather pages” from the codices collection. They are below. Read More »

David Elkington has released six more photos on his Facebook page of what he describes as “leather pages” from the codices collection. They are below. Read More »

A little over two years ago I published a post sharing comments made by an adjunct professor at Tarrant County Community College (Paul Derengowski) regarding his final exam for his World Religions class. He was highlighting something a student wrote in response to one of the questions. Read More »

A little over two years ago I published a post sharing comments made by an adjunct professor at Tarrant County Community College (Paul Derengowski) regarding his final exam for his World Religions class. He was highlighting something a student wrote in response to one of the questions. Read More »

I haven’t had much time to post recently as a result of my thesis and some other complications, but I recently ran across a paragraph I thought was worth sharing. It comes from David H. Aaron , Biblical Ambiguities: Metaphor, Semantics, and Divine Imagery . Read More »

I haven’t had much time to post recently as a result of my thesis and some other complications, but I recently ran across a paragraph I thought was worth sharing. It comes from David H. Aaron , Biblical Ambiguities: Metaphor, Semantics, and Divine Imagery . Read More »

In a recent post on his Facebook group page, David Elkington has responded in a roundabout way to the charge that he deliberately altered the Peter Northover metallographic report to replace a judgment that the codices exhibited a property Read More »

As part of my research for my thesis I’m reading a fascinating article by Gebhard J. Selz entitled “The Divine Prototypes,” from the freely available Chicago University Press publication, Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond . Read More »

Mike announced today that he has a first draft of his book on the divine council available for a limited time on his blog . It’s aimed at a popular audience, and from what little I’ve been able to glean from just scrolling rapidly through the document, it has a lot of words in it. Read More »

  Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 76,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see it. Click here to see the complete report. . Read More »

In reading literature on early Jewish and Christian monotheism (and especially the latter), I frequently run across attempts to reconcile ideas about other divinities with statements of God’s oneness by imposing a strict monotheistic rubric on the texts that then necessitates some kind of tricky ontological rationalization. Read More »

The new issue of Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses has an article in it by Zeba Crook (don’t assume that’s a female name, for your own good) entitled “On the Treatment of Miracles in New Testament Scholarship. Read More »

In most recent publications about Jesus’ identity with God, a lot of the arguments’ weight is placed on doxologies, proskynesis, sonship, the title “god,” and Jesus’ position on God’s throne. The idea is that these are honors or attributes that we expect to only find in God himself. Read More »

On his Facebook page, which he continues to pretend he does not author, David Elkington has responded directly to the comments I posted the other day in response to his radio interview and subsequent clarification regarding my concern. Someone found my blog and thought my concerns merited sharing on the Facebook page, so they posted them. Read More »

Somehow my blog completely erased my post. It’s 1: 30 am and I’m not going to repeat it all. Long story short: Elkington was on Coast to Coast am for two hours tonight. I called in and was the last caller they took before the show ended. I challenged Elkington on his explanation of the Codices’ script (see here ). Read More »

I’m working on a section of my thesis wherein I inductively try to piece together common ideas from the ancient Near East regarding the nature and function of divinity. The portion on I worked on yesterday had to do with the common idea that divinity is distinguished from humanity by immortality. Read More »