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Lydia McGrew's personal, biblical studies, and apologetics blog

Friday, December 29, 2017

Upcoming webinar on New Testament scholarship

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Next week, on January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany (as it happens), I will be doing a webinar for Apologetics Academy entitled "Six Ba...
Sunday, December 24, 2017

Rise up shepherd!

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Yes, I know, the shepherds didn't really follow the star, but this is a great Christmas carol anyway. And there were shepherds who follo...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Licona post V up at W4

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The fifth post in my series on Why Are There Differences in the Gospels? is up at What's Wrong With the World. There will in all li...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Fake Points Don't Make Points and More Over-reading

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There have been two new posts in the series on alleged fictionalization in the Gospels. Fake Points Don't Make Points emphasizes the im...
Monday, November 06, 2017

Moo on Gundry on Matthew

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Everything old is new again. If you're interested to see how a more rigorous member of the New Testament guild deals, without personal a...
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New Licona post: Over-reading

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I have a new post up on Licona examples. This one concerns over-reading connected with chronology. It's a theme that comes up repeated...
Friday, November 03, 2017

Next Licona post: Fictions only need apply

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My next post on Licona's gospel examples went live today at W4. It is called "Fictions Only Need Apply." Here I examine place...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

New post at W4 on Gospel examples in Licona

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I have a new post up at What's Wrong With the World on some of Michael Licona's examples in the Gospels. Again, as always, this is ...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

All is not well in Russia

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We pause in our usual programing to bring you this blast from the Soviet past: Russian government frames dissidents to punish for embarras...
Monday, October 09, 2017

On Roman history "literary devices"

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I have a new, long post at W4 on some examples discussed by Mike Licona from Plutarch and one from Tacitus. I know it's long, and some ...
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Thursday, October 05, 2017

Rob Bowman on the "I Am" sayings

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Here is an excellent contribution on the historicity of the "I Am" sayings by Rob Bowman. I would especially draw attention to re...
Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Response to Licona

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Dr. Michael Licona has posted the current version of a response to my remarks here . A fair bit of it is assertion without argument, but the...
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Friday, September 29, 2017

New post up talking about Hidden in Plain View

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A Reasonable Faith group in Tennessee invited me to address their group. Since I had heard that they have rather lengthy meetings, I prepare...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Jesus never said the "I am" statements?

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[Update, spring, 2018: Please see this transcript for a fuller version of Evans's comments in 2012 concerning the Gospel of John. (See...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Undesigned coincidence talk--recent

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Here are Esteemed Husband and I speaking via Skype to a church group in Tucson, AZ, on September 10. We tag team, and Tim does some OT coinc...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Thread on literary devices

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If you are interested in the implications of fictionalizing literary devices in the gospels, I have put a lot of content on this question in...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Flowchart on alleged literary devices

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Continuing my series on the allegation of fictionalizing literary devices in the Gospels, I've put up a flowchart and introductory dis...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Open Thou Mine Eyes

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I think I like this recording even better, though obviously not professionally recorded. Open thou mine eyes and I shall see; Incline m...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

New Testament posts

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I have two new New Testament posts up at W4 and another one in the pipeline. For the current posts, see New Testament Interpretation in th...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

Nabeel Qureshi: 1983-2017

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See  here . Our brother in the Lord, Nabeel Qureshi, about whose cancer I  wrote earlier , has gone to be with the Lord today. And we ...
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