Book Review: On the Historicity of Jesus

Posted by Quixie at 9:33 PM

Methodquake Volume II Mythicism, the notion that Jesus was more likely a fictional character rather than an actual human being who ...

an end of theism …

Posted by Quixie at 4:46 PM

. I came across this video series yesterday and I found it such a fair and honest treatment of the subject it deals with that I thought I...

baby step trepidation …

Posted by Quixie at 5:41 AM

I recently played my first church gig. That first gig later led to singing at a memorial service, after which I was invited to attend a mee...

open question for NT scholars #4 . . .

Posted by Quixie at 12:47 AM

I've been enjoying reading Hans Conzelmann's book on primitive Christianity. About fifty pages into it, a passing comment of his set...

Jive history . . . .

Posted by Quixie at 11:34 AM

Over at the wonderful Internet Archives there is a page devoted to a series of thirteen lectures by one Tom Nelson on the history of Chris...

self-identity #5

Posted by Quixie at 11:56 AM

In a previous post I highlighted the contemporary "Jews for Jesus" practice of interpreting the Hebrew scriptures through Christia...

self-identity surveys . . .

Posted by Quixie at 12:40 PM

That a continuity between Judaism and Christianity can be historically traced to some degree is an appropriate, valid assumption to make, gi...

on religious self-identity #2 ...

Posted by Quixie at 9:06 PM

I've been reading, trying to wrestle with questions that deal with the religious self-identity of Jews and early Christians in the firs...

the Antichrist, eh? (lemming logic)

Posted by Quixie at 1:45 PM

Leaflet pasted on to a wall in San Fransico's Chinatown district. I came back from California to read some blogs in which a very curious...

100 intellectuals . . .

Posted by Quixie at 8:51 AM

Exploring Our Matrix is spreading yet another internet meme around. This time it's a call to list a hundred intellectuals. I think it w...

weird Jesuses #2

Posted by Quixie at 5:43 PM

Light by Sigfried Reinhardt - 1959 A free-jazz Jesus? Ó . heathen heathens atheists atheist agnostic skeptic skeptical buddhist buddhism ja...

JºA

Posted by Quixie at 2:46 PM

Over at Pistoumen , there's an interesting theory (nay, a rumination) regarding the identity of Joseph "of Arimathea." (JºA) T...

quote of the day

Posted by Quixie at 9:31 PM

(for those who insist that only an "expert" can comment on Christian origins): "[...] in the absence of further historical ev...

monitoring a blogologue . . .

Posted by Quixie at 3:32 PM

There has been an interesting volley between James M c Grath and Michael Halcomb and Ken Brown and others concerning inclusivity, exclusivi...

were the authors real "Jews"?

Posted by Quixie at 11:55 PM

O n a recent post, I questioned the tenability of an apocalyptic historical Jesus. In the subsequent discussion, some topics were brought up...