Historical Criticism A Guide For The Perplexed @HPerplexed

Australian progressive Christian utterly fascinated by historical criticism, archaeology, ancient Near Eastern studies, and Second Temple Judaism. …icalcriticismguidefortheperplexed.org Joined July 2018

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The Non-Alchemist @AlchemistNon

4 years ago

“oh yeah? well here’s a book that refutes your position by a smart person who agrees with me!” Can sometimes be translated as: “i haven’t read this, but because i have a naive trust in the authority figures within my community i’m sure your silly objections are dealt with”

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Dr. Josh @DJHammurabi1

4 years ago

This makes me want to weep and then die.

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The Tentative Apologist @RandalRauser

5 years ago

I'm feeling like a bit of a troll today. 😎

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Historical Criticism A Guide For The Perplexed @HPerplexed

5 years ago

The comments ably make Beth Moore’s point.

Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM

5 years ago

The comments ably make Beth Moore’s point.

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Joel Baden @JoelBaden

5 years ago

#Genesis 25:27-34 Isaac gets the birthright I think this is among the worst famous stories in the entire Bible. It gets lumped in with the “Jacob as trickster” motif, but there’s no trickery here. It’s just extortion, and it makes Jacob look like a total jerk.

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Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc

5 years ago

Talking about oppression, justice, etc doesn't make one a Marxist. It makes one a student of the Bible.

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Joel Baden @JoelBaden

5 years ago

Starting a series of running notes on the #Pentateuch. Not a full commentary, just thoughts, mostly on issues of composition and translation of the #Bible. Hope it's useful/interesting, and hoping for engagement: add'l insights from scholars, questions from anyone. Enjoy!

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Mark Goodacre @goodacre

5 years ago

"No ancient text—no matter how closely we gaze at it—can generate its own interpretive context" (Paula Fredriksen).

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Historical Criticism A Guide For The Perplexed @HPerplexed

5 years ago

Love the Scholarship But Hate the Scholar’s Sin?: ‘Himpathy’ for an Academic Pedophile Enables a Culture of Abuse religiondispatches.org/love-the-schol…

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Dr. Josh @DJHammurabi1

5 years ago

Did Moses write the Torah? What does J.E.D.P. stand for? What is the Documentary Hypothesis? Join us today at 4:00 PM EST as Dr. Joel Baden from Yale Divinity Schools answers these questions... and more! youtu.be/RbyXNGzi6_U

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Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn

5 years ago

Thread I spent too much time on: Every day, I get emails and DMs from evangelical kids under 18. I don't answer most of my "fan mail," as it were (most of it isn't from fans :P), but I answer every single one of these. Because every single time, it breaks my heart.

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Historical Criticism A Guide For The Perplexed @HPerplexed

5 years ago

Obligatory joke about altared states of consciousness.

Prof Francesca Stavrakopoulou @ProfFrancesca

5 years ago

Obligatory joke about altared states of consciousness.

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The Non-Alchemist @AlchemistNon

5 years ago

New blog post: “Why The Fall Is A Big Problem For Calvinism” nonalchemist.wordpress.com/2020/05/28/why…

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The Non-Alchemist @AlchemistNon

5 years ago

If you regularly speak about experts in a particular field of study with scorn, or have a smug, anti-intellectual attitude towards well established consensus positions in scholarship: You might be a fundamentalist

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Tim O'Neill @TimONeill007

5 years ago

Here is the sixth article in my ongoing "Jesus Mythicism" series, this time on the problems the reference to Jesus' human ancestry in Rom 1:3 poses for Mythicists and featuring Richard Carrier's hilarious "cosmic sperm bank in outer space" theory. historyforatheists.com/2020/05/jesus-…

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Duderonomy @m_j_suriano

5 years ago

I think my favorite piece at the Museum of the Bible is the fragment they have of Paul's letter to Gilgamesh

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Historical Criticism A Guide For The Perplexed @HPerplexed

5 years ago

Expelled of evil. Best dog name ever.

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid @Moudhy

5 years ago

Expelled of evil. Best dog name ever.

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The Tentative Apologist @RandalRauser

5 years ago

Hey everybody, look! I got "scare quotes" that suggest I'm neither an apologist nor a Christian, and all because I challenge the practice of slaughtering infants and small children in God's name. Funny, I don't remember that line in the Apostles' Creed.

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The Tentative Apologist @RandalRauser

5 years ago

Just once, I'd love to hear Osteen say "Sometimes life sucks and you just have to sit in the ashes for a while and scrape the boils with a shard of pottery."

Joel Osteen @JoelOsteen

5 years ago

Just once, I'd love to hear Osteen say "Sometimes life sucks and you just have to sit in the ashes for a while and scrape the boils with a shard of pottery."

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The Tentative Apologist @RandalRauser

5 years ago

Hopefully, this doesn't sound too cynical, but I'd much rather have a study Bible that focuses on actually how to read the Bible rather than one that uses the Bible as a springboard to talk about conservative Christian apologetics.