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Assessing the Lost Gospel
Mark Goodacre has been sharing Richard Bauckham’s response to the claims made in the book The Lost Gospel in installments. Here are links to the posts in question:Part 1: The Chronicle of...
View ArticleDoctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
Tonight’s episode of Doctor Who works as a comedy episode throughout most of it, and then as a tender romance towards the end. Whether the combination of the two really works or not is hard to say, but...
View ArticleIs Sex the Reason Some Insist Jesus Wasn’t Married?
Whatever one thinks of the authenticity or otherwise of the papyrus fragment that seems to be stuck with the title the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife,” I think it is useful that people are talking about the...
View ArticleIs Jesus’ Wife Turning Into Thomas?
Discussion of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife continues full speed ahead on scholarly blogs, and on list-servs such as that dedicated to the Gospel of Thomas. All of this is fantastic to see. There have...
View ArticleWill the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife be Buried in the Talpiot Tomb?
David Meadows offered some more nails for the ossuary in which many are confident that the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife will be buried, and Sightings has an article entitled “The Swift Rise and Apparent...
View ArticleDoctor Who: Rewatching Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead
I recently rewatched the double Doctor Who episode “Silence in the Library” and “Forest of the Dead.” Having now seen so much of the later interaction between the Doctor and River Song, and having so...
View ArticleDon’t Tell Me What I Can’t Do
OK, so the above video of a rabbit herding sheep alpacas sheep, having watched the dog and learned to do it, is just awesome. And so too is this story about a 96-year-old songwriter who wrote a song...
View ArticleJesus the Widower
In discussions of whether Jesus was married, two main options are usually considered. One is that Jesus had never married. But in that case, it is objected, Jesus was rather unusual, and so it is...
View ArticleBeam Me Up, Lotty
A commenter pointed me to a web site which suggests that Lot’s wife may have been caught in something like a Star Trek transporter beam, a “pillar of vanishing” rather than being turned into a “pillar...
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