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This is interesting & somewhat pertinent - https://www.academia.edu/10039504/_Protective_Strategies_and_the_Prestige_of_the_Academic_A_Religious_Studies_and_Practice_Theory_Redescription_of_Evangelical_Inerrantist_Scholarship Typical mythicsit garbage. You take an apologetic study that has no b...

We need principles, by which we can in general declare interpolations with some confidence. Do you have a methodology, David? Authorial intention, deduced only from the text that we have, covers a lot of bases and a lot of anomalies. I've looked in some discussions of textual criticism but haven't ...

^^^^^ Perhaps not all evangelical scholars think about presuppositional apologetics as explicitly as do Calvinists, by whom I was trained at one time. But I think presuppositional thinking looms like a fog in the background of much evangelical scholarship. I know that we all have certain assumptions...

I think Bird is trying to sound like he's not an apologist, while being an apologist on the sly all the same. I just don't really think too highly of evangelical scholars. They know what they're doing. It seems to be a trend, though some are better at it than others. Apologetics sounds more credibl...

Revelation 13:8: "And all the inhabitants of the earth shall worship him [sc. the Beast], (everyone) whose name has not been written in the book of life of the lamb slain from (ἀπὸ) the foundation of the world." Whenever I see all the ways that the ET will go to rearrange order of clauses...

The evidence, textual and archeological, seems to show that releasing a crucified body for burial is not really that fantastic of an idea. There's little significant evidence to the contrary. Ulpian supplies evidence to the contrary; cf. above. What's interesting to me, however, is why the gospels ...

Notice the discrepancies in Joseph of Arimathea and the tomb: Joseph of Arimathea - Member of council looking for Kingdom of Heaven (Mark), rich disciple of Jesus (Matthew), member of council, good and righteous man against the council, looking for Kingdom of God (Luke), secret disciple of Jesus (J...

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Diogenes the Cynic posted on Bart Ehrman's rebuttal to Evans on this point. See this and subsequent posts in the same thread:

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Thanks for the references.

Just a point of info: the Council "in Trullo," not at Trullo, is so called because it was held in the great domed hall, the Τροῦλλος, of the imperial palace in Constantinople.

I always assumed this means that Jesus' crucifixion was foreordained, before creation. . kind of hard to come to that conclusion when crucifixion or cross isn't even mentioned in that book. True, but then, to what do you think the "slain" predicate refers, perseus? Do you take this as a r...