New Blog Series: Ten Basic Facts about the NT Canon Every Christian Should...
Almost every couple of years it happens. Usually it occurs around Christmas or Easter. And it is typically associated with a massive media blitz. I am referring to sensational claims, made by...
View ArticleTen Basic Facts about the NT Canon that Every Christian Should Memorize: #1:...
Note: This is the first installment of a new blog series announced here. This new blog series is designed to help the lay believer learn some basic facts about the New Testament canon—the kind of facts...
View ArticleWitherington Reviews “The Early Text of the New Testament”
My recent book (c0-edited with my friend Chuck Hill) is The Early Text of the New Testament (Oxford, 2012). That volume is a collection of essays designed to address the state of the NT text at the...
View ArticleThe Complete Series: Ten Basic Facts About the NT Canon that Every Christian...
For the last month or so, I have been working through a new series on the NT canon designed to help Christians understand ten basic facts about its origins. This series is designed for a lay-level...
View ArticleA New ‘New Testament’ is an Old, Old Idea
My email inbox has been flooded over the last day or so with queries about the recent book by Hal Taussig called A New New Testament (Houghton Mifflin, 2013). I have to admit, I love the title. When...
View ArticleA Further Response to Brice Jones
In a prior post, I responded to Brice Jones’ original critique of my chapter in The Early Text of the New Testament. He has taken a moment to respond on his website here. I want to thank Brice for...
View ArticleTen Basic Facts about the NT Canon that Every Christian Should Memorize: #5:...
Note: This is the fifth installment of a blog series announced here. When it comes to basic facts about the NT canon that Christians should memorize, one of the most critical is the statement by...
View ArticleMan-Made Religion at Its Best: Review of a “New New Testament”: Part 3
Note: The previous posts in this series can be found here, here, and here. This will be the last installment of my extended review of Hal Taussig’s A New New Testament (Houghton Mifflin, 2013) which...
View ArticleIs Scripture Still Holy? A Review (Part 1)
In his latest volume, Is Scripture Still Holy? Coming of Age with the New Testament, A.E. Harvey tackles the thorny problem of whether Christians can still believe the Bible is, in some sense, a “Holy”...
View Article“The Question of Canon” Now Available
I was just informed by IVP-Academic that my book, The Question of Canon: Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate, is now out and available for purchase (see here). This was a bit of a...
View ArticleDoes Mark Really Present Jesus as God? A Response to James McGrath
In my most recent post, I argued that Mark 1:2-3 presents Jesus as the fulfillment of OT passages that discuss the coming of God himself. These verses, therefore, have tremendous implications for...
View ArticleDid Justin Martyr Know the Gospel of John?
There has been a long-standing scholarly discussion about how far back we can trace the roots of the fourfold gospel. We certainly see it in Irenaeus, who is quite plain about his view, “It is not...
View ArticleBible Secrets Revealed? A Response to the New History Channel Series (Part 1)
This past week, the History Channel premiered a new series on the Bible entitled, Bible Secrets Revealed. The first full episode was called Lost in Translation, and can be viewed here. Now, let me say...
View ArticleBible Secrets Revealed?: A Response to the New History Channel Series (Part 3)
This is the third installment of a new series reviewing the History Channel series entitled Bible Secrets Revealed (for others, see here and here). The newest episode is entitled, “The Forbidden...
View ArticleBible Secrets Revealed?: A Response to the New History Channel Series (Part 4)
This is the fourth installment of a new series reviewing the History Channel series entitled Bible Secrets Revealed (for others, see here, here and here). The newest episode is entitled, “The Real...
View ArticleBible Secrets Revealed?: A Response to the New History Channel Series (Part 5)
This is the fifth installment of a series of posts reviewing the new History Channel series entitled Bible Secrets Revealed (for others installements, see here, here, here, and here). I am now a few...
View ArticleWhat Does the Bible Teach about Sex? The Final Episode of Bible Secrets Revealed
This is the sixth and final installment of a series of posts reviewing the new History Channel series entitled Bible Secrets Revealed (for others installments, see here, here, here, here, and here). It...
View ArticleBible Secrets Revealed: The Complete Series
For the last few months I have been working through the various episodes of Bible Secrets Revealed from the History Channel. This series challenges a number of popular beliefs and conceptions that...
View ArticleTalking Bart Erhman Tonight with Greg Koukl on Stand to Reason
There has been a lot of buzz about Bart Ehrman’s latest volume, How Jesus Became God (HarperOne, 2014). Ehrman tackles the issue of early Christology, in particular how early Christians came to regard...
View ArticleDid Jesus Really “Become” God? My Review of Bart Ehrman’s Latest
Last week I mentioned that I have begun a new series on my blog responding to Bart Erhman’s latest volume, How Jesus Became God–The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (HarperOne, 2014). For...
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