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Yes--Halloween Is a Christian Holiday
I was originally going to write a Zeitgeist Zephyr or just update my Spooky season list, but instead, I’m going to underline and reiterate a complaint made in my recent, longer piece, “What Happens to the Dead?”
The complaint runs like thi...
What Happens to the Dead?
The Bible is not unified in its understanding of what happens to people at death, but contrary to the often-heard dictum that the Hebrew Bible has no afterlife, the people who wrote and read the texts of the Bible very much thought somethin...
Five Reasons I Think John is Second Century
Last Thursday, I gave five reasons for why I think Luke is second century. Here, I give five more for why I think John is also second century.
1. Internal Evidence: John’s Greek
I wrote about Luke and the Second Sophistic in the previ...
Moses’s Wand--and Jesus’s
Brian Copenhaver makes the good decision in his The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment to consistently translate Moses’ מַטֵּה or ῥάβδος as his “wand” rather than his “staff,” as most traditional translations have it. Attent...
Five Reasons I Think Luke is Second Century
A Primer
I have gotten on more than one occasion now a request for a shorter, more concise case for why I think the Gospel of Luke was written in the second century rather than the mainstream moderate dating to sometime in the 80s or 90s C...
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