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Luke's Key Witness: A Positive Review
The most recent edition of Artifax: The Biblical Archaeology News Magazine (Spring, 2026, Vol 42, No. 2) included a lengthy discussion of my proposal related to the Joanna ossuary. This 3-page article was written by Clyde Billington who for...
Why The Gospels Hold Up as History
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In the prologue of his Gospel, Luke indicates that he wrote to Theophilus to give him “certainty” concerning things he had already been informed about (Lk 1:4). This, of course, implies...
A New Collaboration
In an article that was published earlier this week in The Federalist, I told the story of Nate Hanson, the former pastor who lost his faith and created a popular deconstructionist podcast called Almost Heretical. Eight years later, however,...
Cambridge NT Scholar George van Kooten on the Date & Authorship of John's Gospel
In late 2024, I wrote about a paradigm shift that was taking place among NT scholars with respect to the date of the Fourth Gospel. Until the discovery of the John Rylands fragment in 1935, it was common to view John’s Gospel as a product o...
An Article I Wrote on Nate Hanson's Return to Faith Was Published in The Federalist
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For the past eight years, Nate Hanson served as the host of a podcast called Almost Heretical. The show generated millions of downloads and rose to become one of the most successful “deconstructionist” podcasts on th...
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