VSR
I’m grateful to Jim Davila for pointing out that Vocabulary for the Study of Religion is going to be available. Click through to see the price set by the publisher, and compare that to the price on...
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RIP I. Howard Marshall
I saw the news on Facebook that I. Howard Marshall has passed away. If you aren’t familiar with this famous Evangelical New Testament scholar, there are a number of his articles and other writings...
View ArticleHaving Purpose
My students were asked to evaluate the sources they used in their papers this semester. More than one has told me that a particular article or book is reliable because it “has purpose.” What on Earth...
View ArticleWere the Titles of the Gospel on #Sillyboi?
You may think I’m a “silly boy” for writing about this. But when Sarah Bond recently wrote a blog post about the ancient Greek use of a tag (sillybos) to indicate the author and title of a work on a...
View ArticleDouble Irony
In addition to the irony that an atheist meme used an image of the library of an institution with religious roots and affiliation, which houses among other things the Book of Kells, to try to poke fun...
View ArticleA Novel Approach to Religion and Science Fiction
I’m in the process of finalizing the reading list for my course on Religion and Science Fiction. I found I could not choose from among the many novel options that I considered for the course. In the...
View ArticleI Have This Book (Here’s How I Got It)
The above image comes via a post on Jerry Coyne’s blog, “The Truth About Creationism vs. Evolutionism.” Would it be fair to say that the biggest reasons for the debates about evolution among...
View ArticleJim Davila on the Jordanian Lead Codices
Jim Davila has three lengthy posts about Samuel Zinner’s recent report on the lead books from Jordan, which we have good reason to describe as hoaxes or fakes, regardless of when they were produced,...
View ArticleOf the Burning of Books There is no End
Tim O’Neill, on his blog History for Atheists, has tackled another widely-held misrepresentation, namely that Christians in ancient times typically conspired to destroy and suppress secular and/or...
View ArticleNew Book Series on Theology and Popular Culture
Fortress Press and Lexington have a new book series focused on theology and popular culture. I’m sure I’ll propose something to them, given the focus of the series. The hard part will be deciding which...
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