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scholars

Witherington or Blitherington?

December 13, 2009

I’m aware that Ben Witherington is often credulous about various archaeological claims like the James Ossuary. He also seems to me to be overly trusting of the sources, and able to gloss over other peoples sticking points. However, I was quite astonished to see his latest post, passing on a chain email.
Not only does the [...]

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Schenck’s non-scholars (and the academic evangelical)

December 8, 2009

I’m not sure (pace James McGrath) that Ken’s comments today make him a liberal. It’s quite reasonable to criticise people for poor scholarship and arguments. I think that Piper’s riposte to Wright, for example, thoroughly deserves any excoriation that comes its way. After all, Piper rejects any use of Second Temple Judaism as a context [...]

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I’m not a “Christian” – maybe I can be a scholar.

December 4, 2009

Pat McCullough has a good post with some good comments sparked by Dan Wallace’s odd broadside against liberals and their biases. In that earlier post Wallace claimed that “most biblical scholars are not Christians”. (I note in passing that real secular scholars think the shoe is on the other foot.)
Among other links, Pat draws us [...]

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Inerrancy’s not scholarship: the other Doug’s weak consensuses

December 3, 2009

I tried to leave this as a comment on Doug Mangum’s post, but Blogger took against me. He suggests that there are at least three top consensuses (that sounds so wrong in the plural, even if you use an -i ending) in bibilcal scholarship that are weak and in need of challenge. His top three:

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Is this an indictment of modern biblical scholarship?

November 14, 2009

Nijay Gupta partially reviews Gordon Fee’s commentary on the Thessalonian letters. In the course of his reflections he says this:

This seems to me to be a problem with new commentaries -though they are written by general experts (experts on Paul), ones like these are not by people who have spent their career on this one [...]

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Insults with style: Robert Price on Dominic Crossan

September 30, 2009

Dan Reid runs a trailer for a new IVP book on the historical Jesus, with contributions from Robert Price, John Dominic Crossan, Luke Timothy Johnson, James Dunn and Darrell Bock. That’s an impressively diverse line-up and very unlike the IVP of old.
I confess that I think Price is the only one in the line-up who [...]

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Church Times obituary of Graham Stanton

September 18, 2009

The Church Times take down their subscription wall and let Richard Burridge’s obituary of Graham Stanton free.
Richard reveals yet another reason why Stanton was so highly esteemed by Mark Goodacre:

Even at my last visit, just days before he died, propped up in front of the first Ashes Test (he loved seeing the Australians struggle), he [...]

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Most influential women bible scholars meme

September 4, 2009

I’m going to pick up Mike Kok’s new meme on the top 5 most influential female biblical scholars.

Since this is a list of those who have influenced me the most, I shall begin with someone who had bridged the NT / early church fields: Frances Young, who supervised my MPhil dissertation.
I have always found Morna [...]

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Dilettantism, Jim? I blame the Reformers and revivalists

July 15, 2009

Matthew Burgess and Jim West have continued the argument I noted yesterday about amateurs and professionals (or dilettantes and scholars as Jim tends to put it). In the course of this Jim makes the most moderate comment I’ve seen him make on the topic.
i’m happy to agree with you for the most part here matt. [...]

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Martin Hengel dies: may God be good to him

July 2, 2009

According to Dorstener Zeitung (about the only news source I could find) Martin Hengel has died today.
Einer der weltweit bedeutendsten Experten für die Literatur des Urchristentums und antiken Judentums, Prof. Martin Hengel, ist am Donnerstag in Tübingen gestorben. Der evangelische Theologe wurde 82 Jahre alt, teilte die Württembergische Landeskirche in Stuttgart mit.
Hengel’s conservative historian’s approach [...]

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