In my last post I discussed two things that get under my skin in professional contexts, making me blow my top (to mix the metaphor): ignorance posing as expertise (not just in biblical studies but generally) and facile answers, by “experts,” to the biggest personal/philosophical/religious problem people have to face, why there is suffering in the world if there is an all powerful and loving God in charge of it. Read by Petra Ortiz
Everyone knows that Jesus was a carpenter. But was he really, and what was life like for someone like Jesus in Galilee 2,000 years...
Bart asks why Christianity spread as rapidly as it did in its early days, and explores the possibility that it might have been the...
Bart looks at what criteria were used to start to develop a canon of scripture for the New Testament. Read by Steve McCabe.