Christadelphian Answers

YouTube video by Dan McClellan Responding to continued accusations of Mormon dogma #maklelan2867

Cognitive linguist Dan McClellan yet again puts to rest allegations his theological background compromises his scholarship. This is unfortunately a crude form of ad hominem to which some Christadelphians have stooped.

Definitely a book anyone interested in the religious history of Judeans will want to get.

Book Review: The Endogenous Retrovirus Handbook by Donny B. (SFT) YouTube video by Creation Myths

I have avoided addressing the evolution - creation debate for the same reason I avoid the flat earth debate; it is incredible anyone today denies evolution, much less an old earth. Occasional posts highlighting creationists idiocy are useful though.

YouTube video by Randal Rauser - The Tentative Apologist The Dangerous Arguments of the Christian Apologists

Randal Rauser on the poisonous evangelical justification for genocide in the conquest narratives. Add MAGA / Christian nationalism to the mix and you have the possibility of Evangelical defence of contemporary atrocities.

YouTube video by Dan McClellan Answering a question about Asherah & YHWH

On the relationship between YHWH and Asherah over time.

Missed this when it was announced a month earlier. Anything associatred with Dr Baden is an automatic buy.

More on the divine council and the Bible. Monotheism as we know it today differs from what is in the Hebrew Bible.

Remnants of Archaic Hebrew Poetry Embedded in the Torah - TheTorah.com The poems in the Torah are stylistically, theologically, and linguistically different from the prose narratives surrounding them. They include traces of earlier dialects of Hebrew, Ancient Near Easter...

"The poems in the Torah are stylistically, theologically, and linguistically different from the prose narratives surrounding them...all of which suggest that they are ancient remnants of earlier Israelite literature."

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YouTube video by Dan McClellan How do you “Google competently”?

A concise overview of how the motivated layperson can properly research subjects related to the Bible.

Apart from a shared statement of faith (which includes refraining from politics) Christadelphians tend to be fairly autonomous so the conservative democracy-bashing proclivities of the fundamentalists don’t represent all of the community.

The fact the democracies in which many Christadelphians life allow them freedom of worship, expression, and association is something that eludes the democracy-disparaging fundamentalists.

Christadelphians have traditionally refrained from voting or standing for political office. Some of the more fundamentalist parts of the community go further than that and disparage democracy, which they believe facilitates what they see as social ills.

YouTube video by Dan McClellan Is this a real Bible contradiction?

One of the rhetorical tricks of the worst kind of Christian apologist is to argue that because something is not impossible, it could have happened and therefore no contradiction exists. The example of Luke’s reference to the census of Quirinius is an excellent example of this.

The Apostolic Fathers (Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies) Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies is a multivolume series that seeks to introduce key ancient texts that form the cultural, historical, and literary context for the study of the New Testame...

Something good appears in Logos.

Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period This volume is the outcome of an international conference held at Tel Aviv University, May 29–31, 2001. The idea for the conference germinated at the fifth Transeuphratene colloquy in Paris in March 2...

7. Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period: Eds Joseph Blenkinsopp and Oded Lipschits

Seeing the Messiah: An Analysis of the Postmortem Appearances of Jesus Christ and the Lubavitcher Rebbe Against the Backdrop of Apparitional Phenomena Apparitions are real. The evidence for their objective nature is immense, and they are frequently not the transparent, non-physical manifestations depicted by Hollywood and popular culture. Moreover, ...

6. Seeing the Messiah: An Analysis of the Postmortem Appearances of Jesus Christ and the Lubavitcher Rebbe Against the Backdrop of Apparitional Phenomena: Jonathan Kendall.

Heresy in the Middle Ages: A History of Authority and Exclusion This book explores the growing sense of Christian identity as it developed in agreement with and opposition to closely affiliated groups in the Middle Ages. It documents the development of the idea of...

5. Heresy in the Middle Ages: A History of Authority and Exclusion: Andrea J. Dickens.

Voices Long Silenced: Women Biblical Interpreters through the Centuries Hundreds of women studied and interpreted the Bible between the years 100–2000 CE, but their stories have remained largely untold. In this book, Schroeder and Taylor introduce readers to the notable c...

4. Voices Long Silenced: Women Biblical Interpreters through the Centuries: Joy A. Schroeder and Marion Ann Taylor.

Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library) In this pioneering study, Meghan Henning illuminates how the bodies that populate hell in early Christian literature—largely those of women, enslaved persons, and individuals with disabilities—are pun...

3. Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature: Meghan Henning.

God’s Word in Human Words: An Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Biblical Scholarship In their studies, students at conservative colleges and seminaries are introduced to the methods and conclusions of critical biblical scholarship. These conclusions often produce a disconcerting chall...

2. God’s Words in Human Words - An Evangelical Appropriation of Biblical Scholarship: Kenton Sparks.

The Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research, 3rd rev. and exp. ed. This handbook provides a practical guide for the student and scholar alike who wishes to use the Septuagint (LXX) in the text-critical analysis of the Hebrew Bible. It does not serve as another theore...

Logos have recently released a few books (or announced them via prepub).

1. The Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research: Emanuel Tov

Looks good.

John MacArthur met his own definition of a false prophet – Baptist News Global MacArthur’s fundamental understanding of reality was about his own ascension to power, and it absolutely pervaded everything.

The death of a false prophet.

I’ve been emphatic on the need for our community to place a chasm between ourselves and conservative American evangelicals given their regressive social views. This is one of the more egregious examples of what I mean.

Holy Cross Dean Fr. Eugen J. Pentiuc Co-Editing "The Ancient Christian Study Bible" - Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America - Orthodox Church

This looks very promising:

“And now the fourth study Bible to be published by OUP: The Ancient Christian Study Bible: The Bible of the First Millennium AD.”

YouTube video by C. J. Cornthwaite No, that doesn't fix the manuscript gap - #apologetics

There’s an apologetics video circulating looking at the question of how much of the NT exists in the earliest manuscripts. As NT scholar C. J. Cornthwaite shows, this video is problematic.

"Rationality Rules" Bungles Tom Holland - History for Atheists In 2019 public historian Tom Holland published his book Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, a thematic history examining the ways Christianity has fundamentally influenced western thinking. The ...

I have been remiss in not reposting material from Tim O'Neill's website. Here, he comments on an ill-advised critique of Tom Holland.

Interview - Dr Thomas C. Schmidt on Josephus' Testimonium - History for Atheists My guest today is Dr Thomas C. Schmidt of Fairfield University. Tom has just published an interesting new book through Oxford University Press: Josephus and Jesus – New Evidence for the One Called Chr...

Historian and atheist Tim O'Neill interviews Thomas Schmidt on the Testimonium Flavianum who regards it as substantially authentic.

“There We Saw the Giants”—Premodern Encounters with Giant Bones - TheTorah.com Greek, Roman, Christian, and Jewish authors described discovering enormous bones buried just beneath the earth’s surface and interpreted them through their own lenses: Greeks and Romans saw mythic her...

Legends of giants found in the Bible and other books may come from ancient encounters with fossils.

Revealing Hidden Language Patterns in the Bible, With the Help of AI AI is transforming every industry, from medicine to film to finance. So, why not use it to study one of the world’s most revered ancient texts, the Bible?

AI and source criticism.