Thanks for this video Ross. Exciting to watch. It has been too long since we have been in the Holy Land! Our number is limited but we still have space. Full information: https://blossomingrose.org/2022-walking-the-ancient-paths/ https://youtu.be/HPd929puGZo
Another great post over at “Scribes of the Kingdom” which I am happy to endorse. I prefer my friend, the late Jimmy Dunn, Christology in the Making (Eerdmans 1966) to Bauckham’s Jesus and the God of Israel (Eerdmans, 2008). Dunn shows that nowhere in the New Testament documents is the Lord…
Now that international travel is opening up in the USA, Israel, and elsewhere I wanted to let my blog readers know that the tour to Israel I will be leading March 4-15th is active and alive. We have our choice hotels booked and reserved as well as all the sites…
Another great blog post over on “Scribes of the Kingdom.” Alex never disappoints. I highly recommend his site and all that he posts. He is careful, dives deep, and always offers fresh new insight on biblical things–especially early emerging Christianity. Don’t miss this one: https://scribesofthekingdom.com/2021/10/17/gods-unfailing-wrath-divine-violence-and-the-cruciform-mirage/
Don’t miss the Biblical Archaeology Society “Bible and Archaeology Fest” coming this weekend! TODAY is the last day to resgister–so you still have time! You don’t have to travel or book a hotel–everything is on-line via Zoom. Two days of fabulous lectures. Check out the speakers and topics, and the…
Most of us who work in what we academics call “Christian Origins” hold to the “Two Source” theory of Synoptic Gospel origins. That is, Mark was the earliest narrative gospels, Matthew and Luke both used Mark as their core source, but they had access to another source that we call…
“One of the great puzzles for most researchers of the Shapira Affair is why he spent the final months of his life in the Netherlands. The basic story, oft repeated, is that after the official rejection of his manuscript strips by Christian Ginsburg, the dejected Shapira travelled to Amsterdam, then…
We read in the New Testament gospels of the “baptism of John,” spoken of quite specifically, with Jesus and his core original followers all joining that movement through baptism (Mark 27-33; Acts 1:21-22)–but then also the “one” baptism “into Christ” that Paul administers–which in fact makes one “united” with the…
Such a sad day. As Leonard Cohen put it, The Day They Wounded New York. Those of us who were alive and lived through it remember precisely where we were when we heard the news. I was pulliing into our main campus entrance for my 9am Intro to New Testament…
Yesterday I did a two hour interview (originally scheduled for September 1st) with Night Light Radio radio host Barbara DeLong on my two books on Paul, namely: Paul and Jesus (2012) and my latest, Paul’s Ascent to Paradise (2020). It was a wide-ranging time covering everything from the possibility that Paul was born…
