I’m probably one of the last persons to catch up with this interview but at least to have it on record that it did make a blip on Vridar here it is, an interview by Valerie Tarico with David Fitzgerald: How “Case for Christ” Author Lee Strobel Fabricated His Best-Selling Story—An Interview with Religion Critic … Continue reading “How “Case for Christ” Author Lee Strobel Fabricated His Best-Selling Story — The Old Road to Damascus Myth”
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PhD student Matthew Ferguson on Κέλσος blog has just posted When Do Contemporary or Early Sources Matter in Ancient History?. It’s reassuring to see some of the same fundamental principles that we have expressed here for some years now. But now you can read the fundamentals from someone in the process of completing his PhD in the classics and … Continue reading “When Do Contemporary or Early Sources Matter in Ancient History?”
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Kevin Brown of the Diglotting blog posts about some very interesting books. One of these is Iesus Deus: The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God which, being available on Kindle, meant I splurged on the spot and now have it waiting impatiently on my desktop to be read. But investigating this book led me … Continue reading “A Scholarly Biblioblog Doing it Right: Diglotting”
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–o0o– All posts in this series are archived in the O’Neill-Fitzgerald Debate. –o0o– Tim O’Neill (TO) excoriates Dave Fitzgerald (DF) for consistently depict[ing] the topic as some kind of starkly Manichaean conflict between Christian apologists on one hand and “critics who have disputed Christian claims” on the other (O’Neill 2011) What’s more, he produces the … Continue reading “O’Neill-Fitzgerald Debate the Christ Myth: #4, A False Dichotomy?”
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All posts in this series are collated here. Chapter three of Derek Murphy’s book, Jesus Potter Harry Christ, discusses the evidence commonly cited for the historical existence of Jesus. In his view the arguments used to support the historicity of Jesus are often a mixture of inferences, deductions and references to common knowledge and unfounded … Continue reading ““Jesus Potter Harry Christ” review, part 3: Where’s the Proof?”
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Given the high praise so widely given Fabricating Jesus by Craig Evans, and given the book’s subtitle, How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels, I had hoped to find a scholarly engagement, albeit accessible to a lay audience, with the methods and arguments of “modern scholars”. The book generally avoids doing anything like this. Rather, it … Continue reading “‘Fabricating Jesus’ by Craig Evans — The Preface”
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I have added a new page in the right column under Archives By Topic to allow easy access to the complete list of recent posts on Revelation presenting Thomas Witulski’s second century date for the work. The page also includes all other posts that have discussed Revelation from various perspectives. But since we’re here right … Continue reading “List of Vridar Posts on the Book of Revelation”
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Annotated list of Vridar posts on the Book of Revelation Bruce Malina and Revelation as an Astral prophecy Born of a woman in heaven: cosmic origin of the Messiah 2011-06-05 Discussing Professor Bruce J. Malina’s book On The Genre And Message Of Revelation: Star Visions and Sky Journeys He sets out a case for the … Continue reading “Book of Revelation — Annotated List of Posts“
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The question to which Roman emperors the κεφαλαι ἑπτά [=seven heads] are to be referred has been and continues to be the subject of extraordinary controversy among scholars. This is not least due to the fact that the apocalypticist does not give his readers any real clue regarding the historical attribution of the [emperors] in … Continue reading “The 7 Kings of Revelation 17 — part 2”
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