A Series on The Historical Jesus
This is a series to follow. Over on Re:Fundamentals, Erik is working through a response to the Jesus Seminar.
View ArticleThe Historical Jesus pt 2 – The New Spirituality? | re:Fundamentals
They see their spiritual odyssey as superseding the Scriptures, passing on to a higher level of understanding. In a very real way, they are the Gnostics of our day – believing that they have discovered...
View ArticleLuke’s Alleged Use of Mark
H.C. Thiessen, in his NT Intro introduces an interesting point. If Luke, when writing for Gentiles, used Mark as a source, why did he not use Mark 6:45-8:9 ? This includes the encounter of Jesus with...
View ArticleIrenaeus on The Order of The Gospels
Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect, while Peter and Paul were preaching at Rome, and laying the foundations of the Church. After their departure, Mark, the...
View ArticleEvangelical Textual Criticism: Sinaiticus Facsimile by Hendricksons
From the advertisement: The Codex was hand-written in Greek by fourth-century scribes, only 300 years after the time of the New Testament, making it one of the earliest and most reliable witnesses to...
View ArticleBlogging, Reading, Studying, and Miscellanea
2011 promises to be a new year. Did you know that? It seemed apparent didn’t it? Well, for me, I hope it is new in the sense of a new approach to my studies and blogging. I enjoy blogging. I also...
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Thoughts on The Canon
Image via Wikipedia The status of the canon has undergone a drastic shift in modernity. The precise boundaries of the canon, and the relation of canonical writings to nonbiblical tradition, remained...
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Tradition and Scripture Again
Image via Wikipedia Joel said, What collected, affirmed, confirmed, and tells you how to interpret Scripture? What, indeed? Joel will probably say that the “what” is tradition, but is it? Is it merely...
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Historic Fundamentalism part 5
Image via Wikipedia In my mind Historic Fundamentalism as a movement was a good thing. Sure, there were probably excesses. Human are normally people who go to extremes in almost everything they do....
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Are We Closer to The Autographs Than We Previously Realized?
Image via Wikipedia I speculated that if the Gospel of Matthew were published and circulated in 75 CE and if it and some of the first copies of it were in use as long as the manuscripts in the...
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