A Book Review of “In the Beginning” by Lawrence R. Farley
The ever-present creation/evolution debate, along with the intense debate regarding the proper interpretation of Genesis 1-11, is not going away anytime soon. O...
Category: Biblical Studies
The Jewish War Series (Part 15)–May 70 AD: Josephus’ Appeal and the Miseries to Which the Zealots Inflicted Upon the People
After taking the second wall and pushing the zealots back deeper into the upper city and the temple complex, Titus relaxed the siege for a short time, to see if...
The Jewish War Series (Part 14): May 70 AD–Titus Takes the First and Second Walls
When Titus had come to Jerusalem, he encountered a city that had been effectively under siege by the two remaining zealot leaders long before he had arrived. Si...
The Gnostics Are Coming! (Thomas Purifoy of “Is Genesis History” Accuses John Walton…of Gnosticism?)
Last month, I took part in an online debate regarding Noah’s flood: was it a worldwide flood, a local flood, or should Genesis 6-9 be understood as an example o...
The Jewish War Series (Part 13): Spring of AD 70–Titus and the Roman Legions Arrive at Jerusalem
The State of Jerusalem in the Spring of AD 70 During the winter of AD 69-70, the three factions of zealots in Jerusalem terrorized both each other and the civil...
The Jewish War Series (Part 12): Zealot Terrorism in Jerusalem, Chaos in Rome, and a Two-Year Delay to the War
As Vespasian bided his time in Caesarea, things were playing out just as he had expected in Jerusalem—the zealots were tearing each other apart, and in the proc...
Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 12): Conclusions–The Fundamentalist Plummer in an Art Gallery
We now come to my final post in my extended book analysis of Bart Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God. In this post I will cover Ehrman’s last two chapters, as well a...
Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 11)–Jesus: What and Angel!
We are now in the home stretch of my extended book analysis of Bart Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God. In this post, I will be covering chapter 7, entitled, “Jesus ...
Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 10): Ehrman’s Attempt to Explain an Evolving Christology
The sixth chapter of Bart Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God is entitled, “The Beginning of Christology: Christ as Exalted to Heaven.” As the title suggests, the cha...
Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 9): What Does Ehrman Know About the Resurrection of Jesus? Turns out, not much…
In chapter 5 of his book, How Jesus Became God, Bart Ehrman discusses “what we can know” about the resurrection of Jesus. Of course, given the fact that in the ...