Caution: This presentation is 1.5 hours and is for serious students of the historical Jesus–which I believe my Blog readers and subscribers are. In this age of TikTok, Shorts, YT videos that are never supposed to be longer than 12 minutes, it will find its rightful place. It is not…
This is the introduction to an exciting NEW SERIES on my Youtube Channel I am short-titling “Jesus Archaeology.” The idea is to highlight the ways in which scientifically conducted archaeology in the Holy Land has contributed to our historical understanding of the “Jesus Movement” or the rise of early Christianity.…
Paul Tillich once said, I don’t pray, I meditate. I would head in that direction, but with this change: I neither pray, nor meditate, but I try to “atune,” through most of my waking moments, to the greater ordered PROCESS that has given rise to my very being. I am…
This short home movie clip captures, in a very fuzzy and faded way, my first time visiting Jerusalem in July, 1962–now over 60 years ago! I was just 16 years old, in my “Buddy Holly” teenage stage, having lived outside of Paris the previous year and wanting to major in…
I really enjoyed this recent interview I did with Helen Bond and David Roos on their fabulous podcast “Biblical Time Machine.” Helen and I have been on a lot of TV documentaries together over the years. Here we cover it all, and at the end I reveal what scene I…
In this finale to my 25-part series on Bible Prophecy I explore the three major interpretations of “Bible Prophecy Belief” in our own time–Preterist, Continuous Historical, and Futurist–weighing them in the balance and finding them wanting. I discuss the terms: literal, symbolic, poetic, spiritual, and actual as well as the…
Jacob Neusner was one of the best-known scholars of Jewish studies in the 20th century. He reckoned that the three most influential Jews of all time were Moses, Jeremiah, and Yohanan ben Zakkai. Odds are you’ve heard of Moses and Jeremiah. Moses was the great lawgiver. Jeremiah was the great…
Anyone up for a fairly in-depth hour and a half discussion of the John the Baptizer/Jesus/James movement and it possible relationship to the group that the historical Josephus, and other classical writers such as Pliny and Strabo, called the “Essenes”? We are not sure of the origins of this Greek…
In this video I begin to explore various kinds of “Preterist” interpretations of Bible Prophecy, particularly those Christian views that claim EVERYTHING, including the Return of Jesus and resurrection of the dead, took place in the summer of the year 70 AD, with the destruction of the Jewish Temple and…
First, MVP, who administers my two on-line courses, and others they offer, has made a decision to offer $10.00 off on all their courses–mine included–for a Black Friday through Cyber Monday sale (11/24-11-27). If you want to take advantage of either. You just put in the Discount code: BLKFRIDAY2023 when…
