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Around the Blogosphere (10.12.2012)

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This is my weekly list of recommendations. You can find daily links at the After Emmaus page on Facebook.

Biblical Studies

Christian Askeland: Papyrus Conservation Videos

John Byron: Lost Gospels: What are they and do they matter? ; Thoughts on Giving Thanks: 2 Thessalonians 1:3-4

Mark Goodacre: Jesus’ Wife Fragment: Further Evidence of Modern Forgery

Tim Henderson: The Demise of the Criteria of Authenticity? (Part 3 of 3)

Scot McKnight: Historical Jesus Contrarian

- Anthony LeDonne: Is the Historical Jesus of value to Christianity? ; The Earliest Jesus Creed and the Jewish Jesus

- Tyler Stewart: Why the Historical Jesus is No Use for the Church ; Why Historical Jesus Studies are Useful for the Church

Ben Myers: Gospel of John: audio sermons

Sujin Pak: Pre-Modern Readings of Genesis 1 (Part 1) ; Pre-Modern Readings of Genesis 1 (Part 2)

Sandra Richter: What Archaeology Can and Cannot Tell Us About the Bible (video)

Michael Rydelnik, et al: The Mysterious Prophecy of Isaiah 53 (video series)

Ben Witherington III: The Superman verse–Phil 4.13 and what does it mean

Christian Theology

Rachel Held Evans: I love the Bible ; What evangelical means [and doesn't mean] to me

Chris Heard: The inspiration of scripture: divine disclosure

Mark Noll: Sola Scriptura After Nearly 500 Years: Protestant Blessing or Protestant Curse? 

Roger Olson: Reasons for Believing the Bible is God’s Word

Robin Parry: The failure of evangelical approaches to baptism

Ethics

Bruce Reyes-Chow: Humility–If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it

Lawrence Garcia: Is Our Gospel Presentations Undercutting Our Christian Ethic? Conversations with Douglas Campbell

Scholarly Journals and Reviews

David Stark: Journal of Theological Studies 63, no. 2 ; Review of Biblical Literature (October 5, 2012)

Book Reviews

Kevin Brown: Is This Not the Carpenter?  (Part I) ; Is This Not the Carpenter (Part II) ; Is This Not the Carpenter (Part III)

Nijay Gupta: Soundings in the Religion of Jesus

Other 

Chris Keith: Critical Scholarship and Theological Institutions

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Author: Brian LePort

I'm a blogger with a MA in Biblical and Theological Studies and a Master of Theology (ThM).

3 thoughts on “Around the Blogosphere (10.12.2012)

  1. Thanks again for the links, Brian.

  2. The Michael Rydelnik link caught my eye. His view of the OT as messianic has greatly influence my own views.

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