The new revised and expanded 4th edition of my little book Restoring Abrahamic Faith is available now on Amazon in paperback as of noon EDT today. Here is the link: https://amzn.to/3F90SA7 I will be adding Kindle, Hardcover, and Audio at a later date, as well as translations into several languages,…
I am asked this question more than ANY other when I lecture or talk about the Dead Sea Scrolls! Here is my answer in less than 30 minutes! This is a short 25 minute excerpt of a longer 1:45 minute interview I did with Aaron Abke and Kameron Waters of…
Here are five questions asked by my viewers following my presentation on what most likely took place Easter Morning. You can watch the main presentation here: Weeping and Mourning through Easter. How Resurrection Faith was Born? https://youtu.be/eooqvKN6-zw https://youtu.be/4kiUYzN_rBE
Yes, I mean Drs. William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, Jeremiah L. Johnson, Craig Evans, Scott Stripling–and all the rest, several of whom are my friends and colleagues I have worked with on academic projects. I will say no more, the presentation speaks for itself and is offered with respect and…
Here is my CORE view of Easter morning, based on a careful historical investigation of our sources. This is not the typical “skeptical” or “atheistic” view of things–but a careful analysis of how faith that Jesus was “raised from the dead” arose among his followers–not in Jerusalem on Easter, but…
In this fourth of the mini-series for Holy Week I take things from the death of Jesus to his double burial, and the bare beginnings of resurrection faith as hinted at by Paul. In the 5th and final episode I will examine how resurrection faith move from a glorified spiritual…
In this continued narration of the final days of Jesus we take a more historical look at what we can reliably reconstruct through the fog of theological overlay, regarding Jesus’s final meal, arrest, various “trials,” and his crucifixion. Be sure and see Parts 1 and 2 uploaded before this one…
The Drama continues…Jesus stages a non-violent Temple Takeover,” denouncing the religious establishment and its corrupt leaders for running a den of slaughter and commerce and focusing on the Two Great Commandments as more than Temple or Sacrifice. The Plot to Kill is hatched https://youtu.be/hOgDW-maeG0
With Passover and Easter ahead it is time to dive deeply into the historical evidence for the Last Days of Jesus–leaving aside theology and church dogma and tradition. What do we really know and how do we know it? Holy Week is Here–Digging Deeply into the Sources: For much more…
In this video I examine textual evidence in the New Testament, the Didache, and the Dead Sea Scrolls that points to a completely different tradition of the Sayings of Jesus at the Last Supper. Neither the eating of his body, nor the drinking of his blood–even sacramentally or symbolically–but rather…