In making up their minds about important (often controversial) questions and issues, what general guidelines do you think reasonable people…
Another great post, and another interesting aspect of the overall theme, which reminds me that this USD 200 annual subscription…
Hi Bart, Odd question for you: Other than suffering, which of your own beliefs would you say is the most…
This is more of a comment than a question but I felt that I should share. I highly recommend for…
When I think of the accuracy of oral tradition, I see parallels in folk song. One might think that words…
Dear Bart, 1. Isaiah 49: 2-3 , was clearly referring to Isaiah himself, not the nation of Israel. Israel was…
Explicitly? Nowhere. But neither is the "master" explicitly portrayed as representing Jesus, himself. Notwithstanding its ubiquity, that interpretation appears to…
In my experience, the oral history fallacy you speak of is especially prevalent among the Christian apologetics community. It’s always…
It's funny how jokes change with their retellings. That's what she said.
How confident are we that these general findings about "oral cultures" would be applicable to first century Rome & Judea?…