By: Jason|07 March, 2013|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: Michael J. Kruger . New Testament canon
Michael J. Kruger (President and Professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina) has began a series to help believers better understand their New Testament and hopefully correct a pattern he has witnessed in recent times: Almost every couple of years it happens. Usually it occurs around Christmas or Easter. And it is typically associated with…
Read more »By: Jason|30 May, 2012|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: New Testament manuscripts . reliability of the NT
Dan Wallace (professor of NT Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary): “NT scholars face an embarrassment of riches compared to the data the classical Greek and Latin scholars have to contend with. The average classical author’s literary remains number no more than twenty copies. We have more than 1,000 times the manuscript data for the NT than we do for the…
Read more »By: Rodney|23 April, 2012|Categories: Apologetics . Biblical Criticism . Events . Thinking Matters Tauranga . Video
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Next week Thinking Matters Tauranga is starting a new series titled Is the Bible Reliable? Building the Historic Case. Is the Bible a book of myths and fairy tales, or is it a book of history and truth? This DVD series provides a thorough overview of major archaeological and historical discoveries that demonstrate the veracity and accuracy of the Bible. This…
Read more »By: Jason|28 September, 2011|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: Biblical manuscripts . Craig A. Evans . Dead Sea Scrolls . Old Testament . textual criticism
In a joint project with the Israel Museum, Google have put the Dead Sea Scrolls online for the first time. Considered one of the most significant archaeological finds of the 20th century, the Dead Sea Scrolls date from around 250 BC to 68 AD and comprise some 800 documents in many tens of thousands of fragments. The ancient scrolls were first…
Read more »By: Jason|02 August, 2011|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: gospel accounts . new testament . reliability of the NT . Tim McGrew
Professor Tim McGrew shows how incidental details in the gospel accounts confirm the reliability of the New Testament.
Read more »By: Matt|04 October, 2010|Categories: Biblical Criticism . Ethics . Theology|Tags: Capital Punishment . Death Penalty . Mosaic Law . Old Testament
In a three-part series Matt looks at the perplexing question of capital punishment in the Mosaic Law. In Part II Matt looks at the claim of sceptics that the Old Testament supports stoning women who engage in pre-marital sex.
Read more »By: Matt|17 September, 2010|Categories: Biblical Criticism . Ethics . Theology|Tags: Capital Punishment . Death Penalty . Mosaic Law . Old Testament
In a three-part series Matt looks at the perplexing question of capital punishment in the Mosaic Law. In Part I Matt challenges an excessively literal reading of penal sanctions in the Old Testament.
Read more »By: Jason|23 February, 2010|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: Bible . Creation . evolution . Genesis . history . literalism . myth . N.T. Wright . Video
How should we read the first few chapters of Genesis? Myth, history, or something else? Some thoughts on a video by N.T. Wright, the Bishop of Durham and prominent Biblical scholar.
Read more »By: Bnonn|17 November, 2009|Categories: Biblical Criticism . Theology|Tags: Bible . Biblical Criticism . Biblical Interpretation . Doctrine . exegesis . inerrancy
Bnonn responds to Glenn Peoples’ critique of the doctrine of biblical inerrancy.
Read more »By: Stuart|19 September, 2009|Categories: Biblical Criticism . Theology|Tags: Alister McGrath . Biblical Interpretation . Chuck Missler . Cocceian school . Hermeneutics . Leonard Goppelt . Marshian school . Patrick Fairbairn . Quadriga . Richard Davidson . Typology
McGrath says there is a sense in which the history of Christian theology can be regarded as the history of biblical interpretation. This is particularly true of typological interpretation. Over two thousand years it has been plagued by misuse and misunderstanding. A cloud of uncertainty lingers today over the nature of typology and the hermeneutical principles that might help establish the study of types.
Read more »By: Jason|12 May, 2009|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: Ancient Near East . Conquest of Canaan . Divine Commands . Ethics . Israel . Old Testament . Paul Copan
A summary of Paul Copan’s paper on the wars in the OT.
Read more »By: Stuart|13 April, 2009|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: Gospels . William Paley
A summary of William Paley’s eleven point argument for the authenticity of the Gospels.
Read more »By: Stuart|15 November, 2008|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: Gary Habermas . Jesus . Naturalism . Near Death Experiences . Post Death Experiences . Resurrection
Gary Habermas is considered by many to be the foremost expert on the historicity of Jesus and the events surrounding His resurrection. On September 11th he has a friendly discussion with radio host Reggie Finley, recorded and broadcast on the net for The Infidel Guy, the worlds largest atheist online community. You can download just the audio here at: http://www.garyhabermas.com/audio/audio.htm PART I (5MB) :|: PART…
Read more »By: Stuart|24 October, 2008|Categories: Biblical Criticism . Creation & Evolution . Philosophy of Science|Tags: Bible . Discoveries . Epistemology . Integration . science
A follow-up answering some criticisms of “The Argument from Evolution” article, and the charge that the Bible offers nothing scientifically relevant. The refutation is threefold. There is discussion on how the Christian worldview has benefited science; the motivation for Christians pursuit of truth in science; and the discoveries in science that the Bible anticipated.
Read more »By: Stuart|24 October, 2008|Categories: Biblical Criticism . Creation & Evolution . Philosophy of Science|Tags: Bible . Creation . evolution . intelligent design . science
A follow-up answering some criticisms of “The Argument from Evolution” article. These include defending Premise 1-1: If evolution is true it requires a divine miracle; explaining there is no need for an explanation of the explanation; the science of Intelligent Design and its predictions; and broadly defending the criticisms of religious texts.
Read more »An old interview but worth dusting off, if only to see how not to do apologetics. Stephen Colbert, on his show The Colbert Report, engages the agnostic Biblical scholar, Bart Ehrman. Colbert replicates the fundamentalist timbre, retreading the familiar rhetoric and arguments that many Christians can often fall back on too easily. This is Colbert, of course, at his inimitable…
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