Was the Long Ending of Mark Original? Third Reply
Anglican scholar Jonathan Sheffield and I are debating whether the “long ending” of the Gospel of Mark (or “LE,” verses 16:9-20) is authentic or interpolated. For essential reading and references on the subject see chapter sixteen of Hitler Homer Bible...Was the Long Ending of Mark Original? Sheffield’s Second Response
Anglican scholar Jonathan Sheffield and I are debating whether the “long ending” of the Gospel of Mark (or “LE,” verses 16:9-20) is authentic or interpolated. For essential reading and references on the subject see chapter sixteen of Hitler...Was the Long Ending of Mark Original? Second Reply
Anglican scholar Jonathan Sheffield and I are debating whether the “long ending” of the Gospel of Mark (verses 16:9-20) is authentic or interpolated. For essential reading and references on the subject see chapter sixteen of Hitler Homer Bible Christ. This is our...Was the Long Ending of Mark Original? Sheffield’s First Response
Anglican scholar Jonathan Sheffield and I are debating whether the “long ending” of the Gospel of Mark (verses 16:9-20) is authentic or interpolated. For essential reading and references on the subject see chapter sixteen of Hitler Homer Bible Christ. This...Was the Long Ending of Mark Original? First Reply
This is my first response to Jonathan Sheffield’s opening statement. We are debating whether the “long ending” of the Gospel of Mark (verses 16:9-20) is authentic or interpolated. For essential reading and references on the subject see chapter...Was the Long Ending of Mark Original? A Serial Debate with Jonathan Sheffield
Beginning today and for the next six weeks I will be engaging a formal debate here on my blog with Anglican autodidact Jonathan Sheffield over whether the long ending of Mark (verses 16:9-20), almost universally agreed to be a later interpolation not written by the...Adventures at the Society of Biblical Literature Conference, Part 3: Closing Out
This is the last article in my account of what I learned and heard at the SBL conference in Denver last month. My previous accounts (of the Saturday and Friday I spent there) you can catch up on with those links. Sunday: The Morning Section Sunday morning I attended...Adventures at the Society of Biblical Literature Conference, Part 2: Starting Out
The SBL national conference was massive. Held jointly with the AAR (the American Association of Religion) it occupied the entirety of the enormous Denver Convention Center and seven hotels, each with multiple floors filled with massive ballrooms the size of small...Timothy Keller: Dishonest Reasons for God (Chapter 7)
I began my critique of Keller’s The Reason for God with an exposé of everything up through Chapter 1, then Chapter 2, then Chapters 3 through 5, and Chapter 6. Here I will cover Chapter 7. Next will be Chapter 8. I’ll continue to other chapters in future...Timothy Keller: Dishonest Reasons for God (Chapter 6)
I began my critique of Keller’s The Reason for God with an exposé of everything up through Chapter 1, then Chapter 2, and Chapters 3 through 5. Here I will cover Chapter 6 (and next 7). I’ll continue to other chapters in future installments. In these two...Toronto, Regina, Michigan, Milwaukee: Make Your Plans & Get Tickets Now!
I’ll be speaking across numerous cities this year after July. Four at least are ticketed events, so you should make plans now (see below for what that entails). Don’t worry, though. They’re totally affordable. But do not expect video of these events...Timothy Keller: Dishonest Reasons for God (Chapter 2)
I began my critique of Keller’s The Reason for God with an exposé of everything up through Chapter 1. Here I continue with Chapter 2. Next I’ll cover Chapters 3 through 5. I’ll continue to other chapters in future installments. Here the same themes...The Rain Miracle of Marcus Aurelius: A Case Study in Christian Lies
This September, Mythicist Milwaukee will be putting on Mythinformation Con IV, always a fun and excellent conference. You’ll definitely want to go this year. Some of the Mythicist Milwaukee team traveled to Italy recently, and among much else, took some...Why Do We Still Believe in Q?
Q is a hypothetical Gospel. The letter Q stands for Quelle, German for “Source.” It has long been a popular hypothesis, and it serves a lot of agendas well. But there is no evidence whatever for it. Q never existed. And there is no rational reason to believe it did....Desperately Searching the Epistles for Anything That Attests a Historical Jesus
In my book On the Historicity of Jesus, I covered pretty much every possible verse in the Epistles that any expert has ever tried to claim proves Jesus really lived. You can check yourself: it has a complete scripture index (pp. 661-71). And Chapter 11 rakes the whole...Get Dr. Carrier’s Latest!
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