The Bible Geek Show
By Robert M. Price
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Dr. Robert M. Price answers questions submitted to him at criticus@aol.com This Podcast was created using www.talkshoe.com
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CleanFebruary 9th The Bible Geek Podcast | Luke says "crowds" came to hear John the Baptist, while Matthew makes his hearers the scribes & Pharisees? Was it a crowd of Pharisees? Who were the Pharisees? How did they differ from the scribes/teachers and the elders? What is the fatal flaw you see in the fine-tuning argument? What is the Sitz-im-Leben of the Epistle of Barnabas? How to account for the different portrayals of Judas' betrayal in the various gospels? After the destruction of the Temple by the Romans, the Rabbis dealt with the issue of offering sacrifices in the absence of the temple, the only lawful place to offer them. Hadn't this issue perforce already come up after the destruction in 586 BCE? Is it possible that the OT says nothing about premarital sex because sex automatically meant marriage? | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFebruary 6th The Bible Geek Podcast | Does belief that the gospels contain any accurate information about Jesus presuppose a belief in the accuracy of the gospels and even the resurrection of Jesus? How is the Kabbalistic "Lore of Creation" derived from Ezekiel 1:4-11 and Daniel 7:13 and 8:16-18? Does the Markan baptism story teach the trinity? What do you make of the Campbellite approach to scripture and specifically baptismal regeneration? | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFebruary 4th The Bible Geek Podcast | By the criterion set forth in Deuteronomy, mustn't Jesus be classed as a false prophet? Reading suggestions for the basics of Higher Criticism. Why does the Bible condemn divination yet recommends or tolerates certain specific types? Might the similarities between Mark's anointing and empty tomb stories indicate not borrowing from the Osiris myth but an attempt to counter it? Where can one read specifics about the resurrection visions of Sabbatai Sevi? Can Anselm's Ontological Argument be used to prove polytheism? | 2/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFebruary 3rd The Bible Geek Podcast | How can we tell whether biblical repetitions denote use of variant versions of a single story versus repetitions of the same material for emphasis? Why discount the theories that come other modern author besides Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon? Have previous scholars explored the possibility that a historical Jesus lived in the late 1st-early 2nd century CE and was retrojected into the earlier 1st century period? What are good books on the history of Israel in biblical times? What does the name "Polycarp" mean? | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFebruary 2nd The Bible Geek Podcast | Theories of the Atonement. Reversals in Luke's Gospel. The Last Temptation of Christ. The Lovecraftian fiction of Colin Wilson. | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFebruary 1st The Bible Geek Podcast | What is form criticism? What was the original meaning behind the various supposed "messianic" predictions of Jesus? | 2/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 30th The Bible Geek Podcast | Is Brandon's "Zealot Jesus" hypothesis still taken seriously? Is the Lukan acclamation, also in Marcion's version, "God has visited his people!" inconsistent with Marcionism, implying credit given to the Jewish deity? Is the empty tomb story based on several independent traditions, a la Gary Habermas? How could Mark 13 refer to the Bar Kochba revolt instead of the fall of Jerusalem in 70? Does Mark 16:15 imply the salvation of animals? Does Genesis 1 possibly envision anything on so large a scale as the Big Bang? How can we tell how widely disseminated various gospel texts were in early Christianity? Were some that were eventually left out of the canon attested earlier than canonical ones? Are there any jokes in the Bible? Does the reference to Paul, Aquila and Priscilla as "tentmakers" signify, by a pun, their role as builders of "tabernacles," i.e., Christian communities in place of a now-superfluous temple made with hands? | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 28th The Bible Geek Podcast | What sort of book did Mark think he was writing? Are Mike Licona and Bart Ehrman perhaps beginning to move away from their heavy reliance on the fallacious appeal to consensus? Might we understand the scene in John 20 where Mary Magdalene suddenly recognizes Jesus as whom she had assumed to be the gardener as a parallel to the Eden story where Adam is with Eve, eats the fruit, and their eyes are opened? Might this resurrection story be based on the "2nd Adam" motif familiar from 1 Corinthians? Did Hillel and Shammai exist? If James says it is a sin not to do something good that you could do, why isn't God sinning by not forgiving everyone without condition? Nothing's stopping him. The tale of a Hindu who learned from a microscope that ignorance is bliss. An apologist who understand the pesher character of NT citations of the OT? Did Jesus contradict contemporary mores and beliefs too much to be feasible as a fictional character? | 1/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 27th The Bible Geek Podcast | What is the source of the adoptionistic baptism scene in your translation of the Gospel according to the Hebrews? How did adoptionistic elements survive so long in early Christian texts, e.g., Acts 10? Was John's Gospel Gnostic? | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 25th The Bible Geek Podcast | When 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 says Jesus died and rose "according to the scriptures" does this mean these events, which we already know about, are seen to have fulfilled OT predictions? Or that we only "know" they happened because we get the clues from OT passages? Did Paul really write the pro-Roman accommodationist stuff in Romans 13? If you reject Q in favor of the notion that Luke got all the stuff he holds in common with Matthew FROM Matthew, don't you still have to ask where Matthew got it? Is The Book of Mormon a parody of the Bible? Does Philo's "On the Changing of Names" strengthen your case that the throne-name accorded the triumphant savior was "Jesus" and not the title "Lord"? How many Bible scholars are atheists? Does the Bible condemn suicide, and did Jesus commit suicide? Is Timothy Beal making virtue of necessity when he says the self-contradictory Bible is intended to canonize the search for truth, not the possession of it? Is Nietzsche the only philosopher to take God's death seriously? | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 23rd The Bible Geek Podcast | Are the materials unique to John like "deleted scenes" from the Synoptics? Isaiah speaks of a voice crying, ordering that a path be cleared in the wilderness for God to walk, but Mark supposedly changes it to make the voice, not the path, to be located in the wilderness, referring to John the Baptist. But is there any difference between Mark's Greek wording and that of Isaiah in the Septuagint that Mark quotes? Aren't the arms of the figure in the Turin Shroud too long and strategically placed to represent an actual human body? If Pharisees, rabbis, and Synagogues existed in Galilee only after 70 CE, might this imply that Jesus was a figure from the late first century? If a historical Jesus was created as an anchor for credentialing the catholic bishops, why would the evangelists leave clues suggesting they were writing fiction? Wouldn't that run counter to their own agenda? Is it possible that the Byzantine Empress Irene's involvement in the Iconoclasm controversy was fictional, to defer blame from the emperor? What's wrong with the New International Version? How different would Christianity be had the Gnostics dominated? Are there signs Mark represents an abridgement of an earlier gospel? Does the referent for "kurios" (Lord) in Mark change from one layer to the next? Might not all the flood myths of the world have derived from as many locally devastating floods? | 1/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 22nd The Bible Geek Podcast | Why are Andrew and James son of Zebedee mentioned in the gospels as part of Jesus' inner circle when they say and do nothing? Do any important Christian doctrines hinge on the authenticity of Mark 9-20? What about the inerrantist appeal to the irrecoverable "original autographs"? What data suggest locations for the writing of the 4 gospels? Do any of the apostles Paul claims to have met ever corroborate those claims? | 1/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 20th The Bible Geek Podcast | What do fundamentalists make of Ecclesiastes with its nihilism? Where did the doctrines of the Trinity and Virgin Birth come from, and how important are they? Who originated the interpretation of Jesus' radical sayings as the stock in trade of itinerant radicals? What was the original point of the Psalms? Do you have an opinion of the book "Paul Was Not a Christian," by Pamela Eisenbaum? Is the Ontological Argument a case of the Equivocation Fallacy? Is there an ancient astronomical background to the business about Jesus being the morning star (Venus) and John being the lesser light, etc.? What is the Abomination of Desolation? Is there manuscript evidence for the names of the authors of the gospels? | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 19th The Bible Geek Podcast | Theodore J. Weeden's review of Richard Bauckham's Jesus and the Eyewitnesses. | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 18th The Bible Geek Podcast | What does the Geek think about Schweitzer's "The Quest of the Historical Jesus" today? Could "Revelation" have been written before 70 CE? Is the "Letter from Jesus" available online? Karen King on gnosticism. Did Jesus create the universe? How do historians account for claimed miraculous events in the past? Could Jesus have been buried in Kashmir? How to convince one's teenage son that sex is ok? Does the Bible only condemn prostitution, and not per-marital sex per se? | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 16th The Bible Geek Podcast | Is there any evidence that Jesus was supposed to have had a twin brother? What is the evidence for and against Mark being written before 70 CE? Is Preterism valid? Is Eusebius correct about an oracle sending Jewish Christians fleeing from Jerusalem to Pella? What is the evidence for the Markan Little Apocalypse theory? Do "The Pillars" reflect Philonic imagery? What is the earliest mention of a flesh and blood historical Jesus? Jesus and the love commandment. | 1/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 15th The Bible Geek Podcast | Do we have any manuscripts of the NT stemming from before Polycarp's edition of the NT? Is it a good argument for the resurrection that an appearance converted Jesus' brother James to the faith? Can there be objective morality, whether with or without God? What is the source of the Sermon on the Mount? Might it be Buddhist? How does it come to possess such a radical ethic, confounding the assumptions of its era? What does it denote when a church is named "First" or "Second Baptist," etc.? Why did Jesus, an omniscient and persuasive Son of God, have to resort to force to cleanse the temple? Replies to Shroud of Turin apologetics. Would the descent of a bird really convince someone that he was the prophesied Messiah? | 1/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 12th The Bible Geek Podcast | What were "Christian copies of the Septuagint" and how did they differ from Jewish copies? The real meaning of "Gehenna." What is the evidence for mass burnings of the Talmud? Was there really an ecumenical Jewish synod in the 17th century that mandated self-censorship of Jesus passages in the Talmud? Is the Ontological Argument a museum piece, not persuasive to modern minds? | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 11th The Bible Geek Podcast | Do the genuineness of personal names in the gospels, being names actually current in the first century in the Holy Land, imply eye-witness authorship? Can one reconcile Genesis 1-3 with science as theistic evolutionists claim? Does Paul's note at the end of Galatians refer to Uncial (capital) letters in which all texts were then written? Would it be viable to make a movie juxtaposing clips from Bible movies showing that the slaughter of the innocents was based on Pharaoh's killing of Israelite babies, etc.? Bo Bennet has dropped "Christian nontheism"; why do you still think it viable? What is the best explanation for the "minor agreements" of Matthew & Luke against Mark? Are the prophecies of the defeat of Babylon in Isa. 12 and of Cyrus in Isa. 40 before-the-fact predictions? Can the NIV translators actually believe there are no Bible contradictions as they say? Where can one engage in grad study of genuine biblical criticism? | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 9th The Bible Geek Podcast | Why do you date Mark in the 2nd century? How late does that make the others? Might John be earlier? Why would on be in less trouble committing blasphemy against the Son of Man than against the Holy Spirit? Were all copies of the Talmud redacted to omit references to Jesus at the behest of an international Jewish synod in the 17th century? Are there any references to Jesus in contemporary religion but non-Christian documents? How can one read the entire Bible and come away still believing it to be the infallible Word of God? Are any historical events mentioned in the gospels corroborated elsewhere? If Paul's conversion story is fictional, are there ancient parallels to it? Are there any pseudepigraphical works ascribed to Jesus? | 1/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 7th The Bible Geek Podcast | Please provide examples of a gospel story based on an OT story and on a pagan myth. Have there been theories of a gay Jesus? Might the Johannine statement that none previous to Jesus has ascended into heaven be explained by the OT connotation of heaven as the sky versus the NT notion of heaven as God's dwelling? Are there other failed predictions in the OT like Ezekiel 26? Why all the back-pedalling re the delay of the Parousia in Mark to get Jesus off the hook if he had not been a real person who made a failed prediction? Did any known early opponents of Christianity argue that Jesus had not existed? What is meant by "propositional revelation"? Can you call yourself a Humanist if you don't hate and oppose religion? | 1/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 6th The Bible Geek Podcast | Shouldn't 1 Cor 15 have said the first Adam was the heavenly one created in Gen chapter 1? What to do when a zealous religious minority seeks to impose its rules on a secular or pluralistic society by having more children, working its way to majority status? What is the relation between "Christus" & "Chrestus"? Do any Christian sects reject the OT as Marcionites did? If gospel stories are rewritten from OT tales, where do the sayings come from? Did those who delineated the NT canon have complete texts in hand? Did the Roman Procurator control the appointment to the Jewish High Priesthood? Where does the tradition of Ghost stories at Christmas come from? Bible translations that preserve the OT divine names. Is Matthew really the most Jewish of the gospels? Have there been any recent biblical manuscript discoveries that shook things up? What do you mean by "The Death of God and the Dawn of the Superman"? | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 5th The Bible Geek Podcast | Aren't there several implausibilities in the apologists' claim that 1 Cor. 15:3-11 represents a creed formulated by the twelve and taught to Paul -- so soon after Jesus' departure? What do you make of the argument that Jesus wasn't really predicting his "soon" return, since for God a day is as long as a millennium? Why would Jews persecute Christians so early? Wouldn't it have at first have seemed like an irrelevant bunch of sectarian kooks? What is the first mention by a Jewish scholar of the belief that Jesus did not exist? Are Oneness Pentecostals reading their theology into John 3? | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 3rd The Bible Geek Podcast | Is ts the "criterion of embarrassment" really a way to determine authentic Jesus material? What does John Allegro contend in The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross? Why do Christian debaters disobey the command in Titus to set a heretic straight and then ignore him? Is Paul's nonliteral manner of OT interpretation the origin of Christian divisions, since no one who interprets in this way can ever agree? Why does the NT take such a different (negative) view of wealth from the OT where prosperity is God's blessing? Did John the Baptist invent baptism? Why doesn't Mark mention Jesus' father? And since the other evangelists were dependent on Mark, where did they get the idea that his father's name was Joseph? | 1/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 2nd The Bible Geek Podcast | Do Christians believe there will be free choice in heaven? Wouldn't the much-vaunted "criterion of embarrassment," if valid, force us to accept the enormities of the Infancy Gospels as historically authentic? Even if the major "Pauline" epistles share a common authorship, how do we know that author was Saul of Tarsus? How much Christian borrowing of pagan mythemes do we detect in the gospels? What does "the Israel of God" (Gal. 6:16) refer to? Who wrote the obviously spurious 2 Peter? Doesn't James contradict Paul? Is there a published OT translation that uses the various Hebrew names of God(s). Why couldn't Jesus have employed the logic of his non-judgment on the Adulteress to all cases of damnation for sin? Is the gospel Jesus ever really tempted (subjectively) to sin? If not, is he much of a model with who to identify? Why wouldn't the Son of God have kept things straight by writing a book for posterity? Who was the Moses-era Koranic prophet al-Khidr? What's supposed to be so wrong with the Christ Myth theory? If Josephus was writing for Roman readers, why regard his work as embodying contemporary Jewish understanding of scripture? What does the "tribe of Christians" in the Testimonium Flavianum refer to? Why should the great number of extant NT manuscripts vindicate NT authenticity? Is it possible the gospel passion story of Jesus "the Son of God" originated as an allegory of the suffering of the Jewish people in the wars against Rome? | 1/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 1st The Bible Geek Podcast (repeat of show #90 from August 2007) | *** THIS IS AN ENCORE PRESENTATION FROM AUGUST 2007 (SHOW #90) *** Testimony of women in the resurrection accounts. Origins of Egyptian captivity story. Which scholars are friendly to the Christ Myth theory? Richard Carrier on mythicism and 1 Cor. 15? What evidence is there of martyrdoms of apostles? Richard Bauckham's claim that gospel stories are based on eyewitnesses. Is Micah 5 a prophecy? Nietsche's epistemological relativism and Biblical scholarship. How does one identify interpolations? Reason for particular position of the story of woman taken in adultery. Identity of John's "beloved disciple". Wouldn't we expect more documents if Jesus was a real person? Purpose of Jesus' temptation by Satan. What of the claim that Acts 2:38 is the "key verse of the Bible"? Were there early "Jesus communities?" Is Luke 24:51 an interpolation? What of Jesus ascension in general? Why isn't Enoch in the canon? Has the Geek read "The Bible Against Itself" by Randall Helms yet? If there was no historical Jesus, whom was Paul persecuting? What of KJV vs. other Bibles disputes? Meaning of Mat. 3:12 (wheat and chaff?) What is Mat. 8:11-12 (descendents vs. converts) all about? Is the Eucharist a product of OT Midrash or of mystery religions? Jesus quoting OT from the Septuagint. Have any apologists responded to the critiques in "Jesus is Dead?" Evidence of pre-meal hand washing in Judaism. If all 27 books of the NT presuppose a historical Jesus, wouldn't denying him be the "ultimate conspiracy theory?" Do you think some of Earl Doherty's arguments against a historical Jesus are a stretch? What books of the Bible support predestination and free will respectively? Connection between the Ignatian epistles and Polycarp's letter to the Philipians? Addition of Peter to the "walking on water" story. What does it mean to "cast something into the oven" in Mat. 6:30? Common apologist response to adoptionism? Which of Geek's books does best on Amazon? Could healing of Peter's mother-in-law (Mat. 8:14) contain a cryptic reference to Jesus' own mother-in-law? How universally accepted is that Jesus was crucified around 33 CE? Are believers' appeals to allegory simply desperate rationalizing? Is "danger of hellfire" just for calling someone a fool (Mat. 5:22) a bit harsh? Why is Gospel of John not written by an eyewitness? Does the Geek think Christian Reconstructioinism/Dominionism is a real threat? Have Dionysus and Atis truly been resurrected? | 1/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 27th The Bible Geek Podcast | Might the arch-capped design with which Moses' tables of the Law are often depicted stem from the head dress of Amon-Re? Is there some connection between "Paulos" ("small one") and the Greek "atoas" ("Small one") and with "Thomas"? Is there a connection between "Paul" and "Apollo"? The numbers 14 and 3 appear in Matthew's genealogy, 2 Corinthians' story pf Paul ascension to heaven, and Galatians' story of Paul's conversion, etc. Is there a connection? Is the notion of multiple Paulinist authors consistent with the view that the Pauline epistles know nothing of an earthly Jesus? Does the story of the annunciation to Mary in Koran, Surah 3 make use of an otherwise unknown apocryphal Christian text? Is there an apocryphal tale in which Peter expands the eye of a needle to allow a camel to pass through, or is that a modern invention? How can sophisticated believers' minds contain so much information inimical to faith and not see a problem? Could Philo have functioned as a channel whereby material from the Hermetica passed into the gospels? Do some people, believing in a virtually omnipresnet and omniscient Satan, make him into a god? Whence the popular notion of sexy women as angels from heaven? Does the NIV slant the translation, e.g., of "the faith of Jesus" to make an evangelical "faith in Jesus"? What is intended by "glory" and "glorification" in John? Is Isaiah 9:6 really a prediction of Jesus? What is the significance of the Magi in Matthew's nativity? | 12/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 23rd The Bible Geek Podcast | If there was no historical Jesus, why are human flaws shown in the gospel depiction? Mustn't they represent the flaws of a real person? Does the pope-like single Imam system of Ibadhist Islam survive from pre-Islamic Christianity? How do the Luke 14 parables of the tower and the army relate to discipleship? And how could the salt lose its savor? Does the Bible ever describe angels as winged? If not, whence that notion? How many people are searching for truth rather than simply defending favorite beliefs any way they can? Does the Bible forbid tattoos? What is the origin of Sunday worship? How did the various hints of Israelite polytheism retain their place in the official canon? What is the Geek's ideal Christmas service? | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 20th The Bible Geek Podcast | How to explain the conservative shift in biblical scholarship? Does John have the same circular structure as Doughty finds in Mark? What of Lindtner's Buddhist origins theory of Christianity? A good book about the view that Jesus' resurrection was first understood as spiritual, not physical? Did Siegel & Schuster base Superman on Marcionite doctrine? How much of your story "The Fear of the Lord" was actually based on Christopher Hitchens' experiences? Would John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress be a better Christian scripture (actually teaching orthodox doctrine and spirituality) than the Bible? Did the Nicene Council define the biblical canon? | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 17th The Bible Geek Podcast | Do you miss any aspects of evangelicalism? Why do Matthew and Luke differ over the poor and hungry in their versions of the Beatitudes? Are the Canticles on Luke 1-2 actual Jewish hymns or re they authorial creations written for the gospel? What is the origin of Lilith? Do the gospel crucifixion accounts accurately reflect Roman crucifixion methods? Whence the theory that Judas was no betrayer but rather Jesus' right hand man? What do apologists do with the minimalist implications of recent OT archaeology? Please summarize the case for ancient Israelite polytheism? Do any early Christian writers besides Matthew & Luke use Q? Are there any passages appearing in M or L that may have derived from Q but only one evangelist chose to include them? If you could visit ancient Israel of the NT works, when and where would it be? Whom would you seek out? What rituals would you witness? What texts would you bring back? Do any scholars believe Jesus himself wrote a book (that survives)? What do you think of Christians' claims that WW 2 era Jews flooded into hell? What books detail the case for Cynic influence on the gospels? | 12/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 16th The Bible Geek Podcast | Dr. Price reads his story "The Fear of the Lord," as a tribute to the late, great Christopher Hitchens. | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 14th The Bible Geek Podcast | Form Criticism and the Dissimilarity Criterion. Alexamenos's ass-headed crucified God. FFRF: village atheists? Would a world flood have deoxygenated the oceans? Did the gospel writers mean to write edifying fiction or real history decoded from the OT texts? How much of the Bible is poetic hyperbole? Is it vengeful and angry to combat apologetics? Is it lame to resort to interpolation theories to dispense with contrary evidence? Would disproof of the Markan Priority model vitiate the Geek's position? | 12/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 13th The Bible Geek Podcast | What is the origin of the legend of the Wandering Jew? Was Thallus a witness to Jesus? Was the NT written with no spaces between words? What is a good book for gently helping a believer see through fundamentalist claims? What is a good book on the Synoptic Problem? Why believe in Markan Priority? Might Paul simply be lying when he claims to have met Jesus' brother? He seems to protest too much! What are the Pseudo-Clementines? Is there any place for a concept of "sin" in atheist thinking? What do we really know about the Babylonian Exile? | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 11th The Bible Geek Podcast | Do vocabulary statistics help establish different authors for various "Pauline" epistles? Which version of Samaritan origins is to be preferred? Does Mark's sandwiching of one story into another imply his use of previous written accounts? Is NT minimalism catching on? Does Justin's Dialogue with Trypho really use material from the historical Rabbi Tarphon? Does "the word of God" ever refer to the Bible when used by biblical writers? Apollonius of Rhodes' book on Jason and the Argonauts raises questions on the methods of ancient historians. How does this apply to the gospels? Please explain Darrell Doughty's theory that Mark 16 is meant to lead back to Mark 1, a circular structure. How important is external attestation of documents for dating them? What, if any, is the relation between Acts 15's Jerusalem Decree and the Rabbinic list of Noachide commandments for the Gentiles? Is there a connection, or only an analogy between evangelical conversion and Alcoholics Anonymous? Was there really a Simon Magus? | 12/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 10th The Bible Geek Podcast | Do the texts from Ebla shed light on the development of Yahwism from Sumerian polytheism? Why does Crossan not go the whole way to Mythicism? What think ye of Bishop Spong's theology? Mustn't Deuteronomy have been written during or after the Exile? Were the Canaanites really so bad? Were there eccentric elements in Harold Camping's brand of apocalyptic? Is there any biblical basis for John Ostrander's view of Judas Iscariot being too proud to seek forgiveness? Does Ignatius' Letter to the Philadelphians possibly aim arguments against the rival messianism of Simon bar-Kochba? Why do some scholars identify Marcion's gospel with Mark, others with a version of Luke? Are NT texts anticipating the soon-coming End earlier than those which throw cold water on the idea? | 12/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 9th The Bible Geek Podcast | How can John say no one has been to Heaven except for the Son of Man when 2 Kings clearly says Elijah went there? If Christians first believed in a purely divine Christ, then historicized him, why do the gospels appear to show a development from adoptionism to incarnationism? Aren't the laws, morality and God concepts of the OT and NT incompatible, incapable of harmonization? Are Chrstological differences reflected in the gospels or created by them? Non Orthodox Jews: still Jews but not practicing Judaism. How can John's gospel say that Jesus is God and yet that "the Father is greater then I"? Does the Bible support the notion that God may yet save some members of rival religions? Or is this simply a desperate attempt at relieving cognitive dissonance? | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 5th The Bible Geek Podcast | Was the OT intended to be taken literally? How can people believe Jesus was a failed apocalyptic prophet and yet also God incarnate? How to explain transformative conversion experiences? If you believe there were various "Jesus Messiahs" whose stories were combined with Christ Myths, doesn't this contradict the Christ Myth Theory? Wouldn't diaspora Jews, tempted to assimilate, have found the Torah a burden, just as much as Gentile God-fearers did? Can you give us a reading of the Book of Joshin'? How important was Constantine's legitimization of the Church on the subsequent shape of Christianity? How does one become aware of blind spots in one's thinking? Given Matt 4:23-24's description of Jesus healing the whole population of Syria, how did these events escape notice elsewhere? Did the Prodigal Son parable inspire the typical "I was such a sinner" testimonies one hears at evangelistic rallies? | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 4th The Bible Geek Podcast | Does Jeremiah condemn Christmas trees? Who write the Psalms? Aren't pigs, lobsters and buzzards deemed "unclean" because they are carrion eaters? What is the theology behind the Social Gospel? Why equate abortion with murder? Are they any Marcionite writings extant? When did biblical literalism become so important? What study Bible do you recommend? Was the split between Pharisees and Sadducees analogous to that between Shi'ites & Sunnis? Why do you think the Last Supper was not a Passover meal? | 12/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 1st The Bible Geek Podcast | Explain Jewish apocalyptic? Was Jesus an apocalyptic preacher? What think ye of the Argument from Design? "The fool has said in his heart, There is no God." What does this imply? How to convey to popular believers that the gospels were not written right after Jesus? How old is Mandaean scripture? What "scripture" is referred to in 2 Tim 3:16? | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNovember 30th The Bible Geek Podcast | Does the Bible actually condemn homosexuality, or is it mistranslated? Why would the Marcionite version of Luke contain such a long paraphrase of Deuteronomy in the Lukan Central Section--if Marcionites rejected the OT? Why does Paul say nature tells us it is shameful for men to have long hair? Doesn't the Akedah Isaac story depict Abraham as a moral monster? Why "Christ followers" instead of "Christians"? Did Genesis originally say Abraham went through with it and actually did kill Isaac? Was there a Jewish belief that Moses was assumed into heaven? | 11/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNovember 29th The Bible Geek Podcast | Was Muhammad influenced by Mani's Gospel of the Living? Good references for OT polytheism? Is Barnabas earlier than Mark? Are there other, non-Jesus related interpolations in Josephus and Tacitus? Must atheists be materialists? What does Crossan make of the gospel miracles? Might there have been Hindu influence on the gospel tradition? Doesn't the Christ Myth use of the argument from silence make a major error? Was Marcion's Gospel the same as the Ur-Lukas or a redaction of it? What are the Arabic letters doing at the head of some surahs of the Koran? | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNovember 20th The Bible Geek Podcast | Netanyahu, Palestinians, Likud, etc. What does it mean to "glorify God"? Why is the OT God so mean? Why are absolutes so important to Christians? What is the standard timeline of post-mortem events: going to heaven or hell, resurrection,. etc.? What lies behind the story of Simon of Cyrene carrying the cross of Jesus? What do the failed predictions of the second coming imply about the date of Mark? If there were various "Jesus [= Joshua redivivus] Christs" active in 1sr century Judea, does this imply a historical root (among other possible roots) for the Jesus figure? Were Peter & Paul as mythical as Jesus? How about Caiaphas, Pilate, and Herod? Where and how do we draw the line? How to make sense of the contradictory verses Luke 16:16-18? Why do scholars pronounce Koine Greek as if it were classical Greek? Might Jesus (God incarnate) have died to atone for his own sin in setting up Adam and Eve to sin in the first place? To say as W.L. Craig does that an omnipotent God cannot be asked to do the logically impossible implies he is captive to the laws of logic, which then are superior to him, right? Didn't you once say Paul never prats to Jesus? Doesn't he in 2 Cor. 12:8? | 11/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNovember 16th The Bible Geek Podcast | As Mark has many OT references, does it imply there might be some truth to the tradition of Peter being Mark's mentor? And wouldn't that imply Peter was pretty literate in Greek? What was the original meaning of "Son of God" and of "Son of Man"? Since the gospels seem to view the sea as a portal to hell, is that why Revelation predicts the remade earth will have no sea? Original pronunciation of "ascetic." Do the ascension narratives mean to depict Jesus as being lifted up or as flying into the sky? Mount Horeb versus Mount Sinai--what gives? Mark seems to be trying to explode the current notion that John the Baptist rose from the dead, but doesn't he in the process undermine the belief in Jesus' own resurrection as perhaps being a similar case of mistaken identity? Does the Bible actually say God is omnipotent? If the redeemed in heaven have free will and yet never sin, why could not God have created us this way to begin with? | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNovember 8th The Bible Geek Podcast | Aren't F.C. Baur and the Tuebingen school passe? What do you make of Bart Ehrman's claim that no real historian accepts the Christ Myth theory? Does the ample citation of the OT in Mark reinforce the tradition that this evangelist was an associate of Peter? Philo's Therapeutae, Buddhists and Christians, Are atheists going overboard in their scorched earth approach to religion? In Koran 2:54, Moses tells the post-calf Israelites to commit suicide! Where did this notion come from? Does the Bible contain prophecies of future events that came true? If the evangelist Matthew was a Jew, why would he call down the blood libel on his own people? Is there any evidence for Origen's opponent Celsus outside of Origen's own writings? Might Celsus have been a fictional character summing up the objections Origen wanted to address? | 11/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNovember 7th The Bible Geek Podcast | Iron John & John the Baptist. Might an originally non-Jewish Christianity have assimilated Jewish identity in order to evade Roman persecution? Please summarize major notions of Paul Tillich. Does the Septuagint distort biblical thought? Do any NT authors quote it? Difficulties with the Noachic Flood. The 24 Elders of Revelation and the Samaritan Asatir. Do Mr. and Mrs. Geek agree theologically? Did Jewish mysticism influence Christianity? Are various towns mentioned in the gospels misplaced or fabricated? What motivated the author to write the book of Revelation? | 11/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNovember 3rd The Bible Geek Podcast | Did the Greek word for "hand" include the wrist, too? If it did, then the Gospel of John and the Shroud of Turin could both be right. Any Christian influence on Sikh Scripture? Is there a single work that traces all NT stories back to OT prototypes? How good is Ronald Knox's NT translation? Did Jesus make too much of an impact on the people of his time to be dismissed as mere myth? What are some bad apologetics arguments? Some unfair atheist arguments? Might Jesus have been active in the time of Alexander Jannaeus? What about Gmirkin's ultra-minimalism? What of Mark Goodacre's emendation of the Gospel of Peter? How do biblicists not see they are denying the infallibility of the Bible even as they defend it, discounting various teachings as culturally relative and not binding? Did Celsus derive much material from Jewish polemic against Christianity? | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNovember 1st The Bible Geek Podcast | What would be the equivalent value of the famous 30 pieces of silver in today's money? Why would the Sanhedrin have needed a snitch to disclose Jesus' whereabouts or to confirm his identity? The Midianite or Kenite Hypothesis. Are we really idolaters if our "good deeds" proceed from any other motivation than gratitude to God for saving us? Understanding The Protoevangelium of James (Infancy Gospel of James). The shape of Moses' tables of the Law. How old is the "Pre-Adamite" theory? The relation between "Christian Perfection" "Perseverance of the Saints" and "Once Saved, Always Saved"? Christopher Ehret's theories of African monotheism and Afro-Asian henotheism merging into Egypian and Hebrew religions. Northrup Frye on the Bible. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 28th The Bible Geek Podcast | Was the Tower of Siloam real? Is there any secular mention of the fatal collapse mentioned in Luke? Is there anything to the "theory" that a couple of Roman smart asses wrote the gospels as a hoax in code? If a genuine Epistle to the Laodicieans were discovered, would fundamentalists add it to the Bible? Is there new creationist, inerrantist militancy in the years since James Barr's book Fundamentalism? What is the basis of the theory that Muhammad was a myth? Has religion really caused more wars than anything else? Has it done no good? Does Matthew 15 contain an allegory of the ascent of Christ from Sheol to the throne in heaven? What difference does it make if, e.g., Mark couldn't have known what Jesus said in prayer in Gethsemane? Surely the Holy Ghost told him! | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 26th The Bible Geek Podcast | Why did God create all those nasty carnivores? Should we actively try to disabuse people of their religious beliefs? Is "only begotten God" necessarily the "more difficult reading" in John 1:18? Did Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkinds plagiarize previous End Times novels? (No.) Would Yahve make a good superhero? The Jubilee Year. Are there axe-grinding atheist apologists? Might the parable of the Wicked Tenants be based on Natha's parable of the sheep-stealing king? Is there any historical event at the bottom of the Lukan mention of the Galileans whose blood Pilate mixed with their sacrifices? Were there Greek speaking Pharisees in NT times? Why do some claim Jesus lived 100 years BC? Questions about Nietzsche's "The Geneaology of Morals" and "Beyond Good and Evil." Might Lovecraft's Wilbur Whately character be modeled on his own upbringing? | 10/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 23rd The Bible Geek Podcast | Does the Bible say life begins with breath? Why would a professed atheist become a born again Christian? Is Atheism a religion? When 3 Nephi mentions a Nephite apostle named Timothy, isn't this an anachronism since in Lehi's day Jews would not yet have been sufficiently Hellenized to give their children Greek names? Why the LDS church did not adopt Joseph Smith's Bible translation. When in John 3 Jesus uses a pun on the double meaning that only works in Greek, does this mean it is anachronistic and fictional? Is there any reason to believe that a single mind underlies the sayings in Q1? Was the Bible subject to more redactional tampering than other books in antiquity? Why are so many evangelicals Republicans? Do the latter pander too much to the former? Does the NT teach that one passes immediately into heaven upon death? | 10/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 21st The Bible Geek Podcast | On Minimalist assumptions, where did the Samaritans originate? Why is there such reverence for the Byzantine text used in the KJV? Is there really any parallel between Jesus and Tammuz? Was the eschatological material a later addition to Q? How much material in the gospels could have realistically come from eye witnesses? Who was in a position to see and hear these things? What is the importance on the General/Catholic Epistles for NT studies? Didn't the apostles die for their witness to the resurrection? And why isn't that a compelling argument for the Resurrection? What is the proper role of consensus in biblical scholarship? What underlies arguments for Theistic Evolution? Doesn't it make God into a monster? Why equate Jesus with Wilbur Whateley? | 10/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 17th The Bible Geek Podcast | Origins of the biblical Jubilee Year. Is there any reason to regard the special Lukan and Mathean material as derived from source documents analogous to Q? How far does the KJV Only movement go back? Does the Bible provide any basis for the depiction in the LaHaye/Jenkins novel The Rapture of the redeemed casting their crowns at the foot of Jesus' throne? How could long monologues like the Sermon on the Mount and the Johannine discourses possibly have been remembered and accurately reproduced? Is there any extra-biblical evidence for a historical Paul and Peter? How can apologists proof text Polycarp, Ignatius, an Papias for evidence for early dates for the gospels when these Apostolic Fathers texts are subject to the same critical doubts as to authorship and date? Was there a low gate in the city wall of Jerusalem called The Eye of the Needle? Do today's "Jews for Jesus" have any relation or similarity to ancient Jewish Christianity? What does "Do not suffer a witch to live" mean? Were the four gospels written for different readerships? Was there ever a widely popular attempt to weave the four gospels into one long one? The "Sunday Laws" once feared by Seventh-Day Adventists. How "Nimrod" came to denote "fool." If 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 is actually a quoted creed, wouldn't there be some reference to it elsewhere in early Christian literature? | 10/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 16th The Bible Geek Podcast | Why are the types wood in the Ark of Noah and the Ark of the Covenant mentioned, but no others? What effects might Claudius' expulsion of Jews have had on Christianity (See Obedience of Faith by Paul Minear, as discussed in the introduction to Romans in The Pre-Nicene New Testament)? How did the Apocryphal books get into the Septuagint (Martin Luther, St. Jerome, et al)? What made the Geek reject Christianity (influences of Thomas J.J. Altizer, Don Cupitt, etc.)? Do gospel contradictions denote editorial changes by a new author who wanted his work to replace, not be added to, his source gospel? Why does John skip the Transfiguration? If all the old Israelite deities had been folded into Jewish monotheism, how crowded a "Trinity" would we have? Why do people claim "Christianity is a relationship, not a religion"? Correction: hallucinogenic drugs in the Bible, question from October 12, 2011 podcast re: depiction of Amanita Muscaria as the tree of knowledge of good and evil NOT from the catacombs of Rome, but rather a 13th Century French fresco. (See John Allegro's The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross and Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality, [Ethno-Mycological Studies] by Robert Gordon Wasson.) More on drugs in the Bible re: Mary K. Matossian's article in Free Inquiry: "Visions and the Origins of Christianity," and Dan Merkur's The Mystery of Manna: The Psychedelic Sacrament of the Bible. | 10/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 14th The Bible Geek Podcast | Gematria and fiction in the gospels? Should the Bible Geek write a handbook to critics and critical methods? If the use of "God the Father" in the Paulinist epistles denotes their Marcionite origin, why does the title appear also in Jude? Is there any secular record of the earthquakes in Philippi (Acts 16) or during the crucifixion (Matt 27)? Who was Philip the Evangelist, and might the epithet denote his authorship of the Gospel of Philip? Are Acts' depictions of Jewish harassment of Paul anachronistic and fictive? Did the Geek once fear fundamentalism might after all be true? What do the commandments to "hate" one's relatives mean? How did the Holy Spirit come to be considered a Person in "his" own right? What about the Bultmannian view of Jesus seemed inadequate, sending you to Mythicism? Might the common depiction of the tables of the Law derive from the arches used in religious architecture? | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 13th The Bible Geek Podcast | Did the disciples believe Jesus was the Messiah before his resurrection? Does the Sign of Jonah in Matthew refer to the ancient Combat Myth? How is the case of Rebbe Schneerson relevant to Bultmann's view of Jesus? What is the reason to think there was Buddhist influence on the Essenes? Are fundamentalists really Manicheans, ascribing power equally to God & Satan? Who collected the Pauline epistles? Was there a single anti-Marcionite redactor? | 10/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 12th The Bible Geek Podcast | Do the empty tomb narratives reflect the devotions of Roman women? May we explain NT contradictions as the result of political compromise between rival factions? What was the role of those who took dictation for the NT writers? What do we know about the historical Paul/Simon Magus? Might the Tree of Knowledge have been some hallucinogen? Early texts refer to Jesus as "Chrestus," not "Christus." Does this reflect the idiom of some sect which called Jesus "the Good"? | 10/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 11th The Bible Geek Podcast | How did ancient bible copyists work? How was their work checked? What reason is there to believe John's gospel originally contained Gnostic elements, afterwards purged? Are there any copies that omit Joseph of Arimathea? Might Joseph of Arimathea be a fictive counterpart to Marcion? What was Gnosticism? What were Mystery Religions? How were curses supposed to work? Please trace the basic evolution of Christology: when was Jesus supposed to have become God's son? Why did the pentateuchal editors include both P and J flood stories, spliced together but not harmonized? Where do the Geek and Bart Ehrman differ? Was Martin Luther in any way the precursor to the radical critics? The theory that the heavenly choir of angels sing to keep the world going--implied in the Pre-Nicnee NT? Do "undesigned coincidences" prove the gospels are eye-witness accounts? | 10/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 9th The Bible Geek Podcast | Who created the BC/AD calender and when? What were the dates and languages of the Pentateuch, the Septuagint, etc.? What's with the temporary predestination doctrine in Romans? Joseph Smith's early fever dreams and subsequent visions. Christian objections to The Last Temptation of Christ. What were the ancient novels? Ever heard of C. Peter Wagner and the New Apostolic Movement? Is there evidence for a historical Jesus in the Talmud? Where was Samuel when the witch of Endor conjured him up? What is the value for Atheists in studying the Bible? Whence the notion that Jesus was perfectly sinless? | 10/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 8th The Bible Geek Podcast | Portions of Romans appear not to be particularly Christian; might they be interpolations? Might "malakoi" have to with heretical i*********e with angels? Do certain gospel parables imply sympathies with robbers and outlaws? Are apologists correct in claiming that, since women could not testify, no one would have fabricated a story in which they were witnesses to the empty tomb? Is the uniquely Lukan saying "After tasting new wine, no one wants it; who does not prefer the old?" an interpolation? Why are Essenes never mentioned by name in the NT? What are the origins of the Logos concept? Would the Jewish Matthew have used a Hellenized virgin birth legend if that's all it was? What do you think of the TV series "Ancient Aliens"? | 10/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 7th The Bible Geek Podcast | Aspects of the Cain and Abel story and its political and theological uses. Aspects of the two Jesus genealogies. Differences between Mark 1-10 and 11-16: different sources? Doesn't the Bible trace the origin of all death (animal and human) to Adam's sin? | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 5th The Bible Geek Podcast | Who were the Galileans? Which are your favorite biblical allusions in popular music? Please reply to an apologist's charges of anachronism in your The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man. The Buddhist sources of Matt. 27:51-53. Christian Atheism. How does form criticism fit with the Christ Myth theory? If the Geek shuns drug use for Rule Utilitarian purposes, what about drinking and gambling? Do all scholars agree on the secondary character of the Greek in 2 Peter? The Geek's opinion on the Left Behind series of novels. What about numerology in scripture? God's supposed perfection and inscrutability. | 10/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 3rd The Bible Geek Podcast | Does the practice of affording a last meal to a condemned prisoner stem from a belief that otherwise the dead man will haunt us? Is it true that no major orthodox doctrine is threatened or undermined by textual criticism? Is it possible that Matthew 27:51-53 means merely to describe the ejection of corpses from their earthquake-ravaged mausoleums? What's the difference between Amillennialism, pre-millennialism, postmillennialism, pre-tribulationsis, mid-tribulationism, post-tribulationism, and preterism? Octavius Brooks Frothingham on F.C. Baur. Was Jesus going to John's baptism merely to be purified of ritual pollution? | 10/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 1st The Bible Geek Podcast | Comment on the Christ Hymn in Philippians 2:6-11. Does The Last Temptation of Christ depict Paul as a swindler? Silberman and Finkelstein as propounding a view to the right of straight Minimalism. Please summarize Altizer's Death of God theology. Is there a version of the parable of The Pearl of Great Price that ends with the merchant losing the pearl? | 10/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSeptember 30th The Bible Geek Podcast | Where do Catholics get the idea that we ought to pray for Satan's repentance and salvation? If 2 Timothy & Titus were written by the same author of Luke-Acts, why does he not refer to an historical Jesus in the Pastorals? Whence cometh fundamentalist teetotalism? Please suggest books on pre-Christian dying and rising Gods. What to make of Daniel's battle between Michael and "the king of Persia"? Is Revelation based on Daniel? Is Elihu's speech a later addition to Job? Is Calvinism really Deism in disguise? Weird Creationist arguments. Biblical pastiche (and parody) in The Book of Mormon. | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSeptember 26th The Bible Geek Podcast | Where do they get the notion of Original Sin as something worse than just sinning, something requiring the atoning death of God's Son? What is the theory of "King Adam & Queen Eve"? Does the Bible say there was no death before Adam? Padre Pio and Anne Katherine Emmerich--legit? Did Joseph Smith replace a revealing angel with Christ/Elohim in his "First Vision" story to shore up his prophetic clout against competitors? Why did Matthew replace "Kingdom of God" with "Kingdom of Heaven" -- and then fail to do so 4 times? How do apologists explain the silence of the women in Mark 16 when Mark must have heard it from them--if it happened? Why didn't Bart Ehrman include spurious gospel stories, shown to be such by the same criteria he uses on epistles in his book Forged? Does baptism somehow come from the washing of slaves? Is King David perhaps based on myths of Zeus and/or Ares? Is Jesus' divine status boosted up from earlier to later gospels? Are there atheists in the Bible? What did the evangelists think Jesus was doing when he healed, lacking detailed knowledge of physiology? | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSeptember 22nd The Bible Geek Podcast | Does Matt. 22:21-29 have the first or the second son disobey the father? Why do translations differ? Did Jesus mean to say active prostitutes were entering the kingdom of heaven? Is there any evidence Peter was ever in Rome? Is there any evidence that the Roman procurator released one prisoner at Passover? What is the origin of the Sabbath? Padre Pio and the stigmata revisited. Joseph Smith's use of the Bible in composing the Book of Mormon. What about Aleister Crowly? Please compare the archetypal figures of Nietzsche's Ã?bermensch, Superman from Krypton, the Buddhist Boddhisattvas, Jesus and Anakin Skywalker. What thinkest thou re Ellen G. White? The work of Bruce J. Malina. Was Marcion a docetist or a Christ-Mythicist? Are atheists really believers as apologists claim? Satan on The History Channel. | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSeptember 21st The Bible Geek Podcast | Wine-making, Dionysus's crucifixion, and Jesus. The Geek's approach to Bible translation. Least favorite Bible versions. Okay to censor the Bible's barbarism? Who were the Genesis 6 "sons of God"? What's the deal with F.F. Bruce. Predestination in Romans 9. C.S. Lewis & his apologetics. Proposing a neutral, scientific world historical calendar. Was Lovecraft really a racist? What is New Thought? Is the Gospel of the Egyptians extant? Is Freemasonry a religion? Michael Moorcock's novel "Behold the Man". Advice on remaining calm and polite in debate? | 9/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSeptember 20th The Bible Geek Podcast | What is midrash? Whence the notion that John's gospel was the work of an eyewitness? OT Minimalism. Isn't it no less "taking it out of context" when fundamentalists ignore the cultural-historical context of scripture? What is/was really going on in exorcism? How does the NIV cheat in translation? Is the KJV a good translation? If God could prevent Mary from inheriting Original Sin, doesn't that obviate any need for the atonement? Do Protestants believe in the Immaculate Conception? Might Jehovah & Odin have a common Vedic ancestry? Favorite and least favorite theologians? Favorite heresies? What do you think of the Heresy of the Free Spirit? What changes would you make in the Pre-Nicene NT? Is there any NT link to Athena? What was Paul's "thorn in the flesh"? Are the biblical books of the Maccabees reliable history? Are there other sources for this history? How do stylistic and theological differences reveal different authors/sources in the Pentateuch and the Pauline Epistles? | 9/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSeptember 8th The Bible Geek Podcast | Why are women more faithful churchgoers than men? Is America more pious than Europe because there is no state support of religion? What is the origin of the "sinner's prayer" Does John's gospel imply John the Baptist baptized Jesus? Should the appeal to fundamentalists to rethink their faith be more psychologically than philosophically focused? What is the Book of Nahum about? Checking out UU churches. Who originated the view that the Paraclete was the fourth evangelist himself? In Mark 1:41-45 what sense does it make for the original Greek to say Jesus was "indignant" or "angry" at the leper's request to be healed? | 9/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSeptember 7th The Bible Geek Podcast | What was the first language into which the NT was translated? Does Genesis imply Adam & Eve had sex before the expulsion from Eden? Did God inflict labor pains as a punishment, or only make them worse? Is the "Nazareth Inscription" any sort of argument for Jesus' resurrection? What is Colwell's Rule? Is the atonement cleansed the elect of sin, why are the post-Adamic penalties still in force? Does conversion really improve people? Are Hell's purported punishments based on real ones from the ancient world? Is worship the sole occupation of the saved in heaven? Are the Pastorals all from the same author? How are Marcionism and Gnosticim different? Tertullian and the Prologue to John. Do you think Marcion is the same as Simon Magus? Who was the greatest evangelist of the 19th century? If the gospels were written on standard length scrolls, bought that way, how can the "pages" of John's gospel have suffered displacement, as scholars suggest? | 9/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSeptember 3rd The Bible Geek Podcast | In Mark 7, we are told, Jesus is shown quoting the Greek LXX in answer to Hebrew-speaking scribes, which renders the passage unhistorical as no one in the Jewish homeland would do this. Is the difference between the Greek and Hebrew texts really so great? When Matthew says Jesus says to regard a stubborn church member as a Gentile or tax collector, might he simply mean to re-evangelize him? What is a good "Bible as Literature" book? What is a good translation, and study edition, of the Bible? Does Mark's opening line signal that he is offering a whole new story and character? What are the Hiloni in modern Israel? Is Ron Paul a friend of Israel? Do Marian apparitions have anything to do with scripture? Must a heretic or a Mythicist undergo mental gymnastics to justify partaking of the Eucharist? What is the historical context for Ezra-Nehemiah? Did Martin Luther relegate the Apocrypha to an appendix instead of rejecting them altogether? Didn't the KJV originally include these books? As for 1 Cor. 15:3-11 being an interpolation, doesn't it fit the theory that here "Paul" denigrates his apostleship vis a vis the 12? Why do some think Thomas is earlier than the Synoptics? What do you think of G.K. Chesterton? Doesn't one of David Niven's stories sound like it borrows heavily from Lovecraft? | 9/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSeptember 2nd The Bible Geek Podcast | Early Christians, Essenes, & Gnostics as crypto-Buddhists. Abortion. Did OT Law not condemn abortion because the fetus did not "have the breath of life"? Is Barbara Thiering's work credible? Was "Jesus" John the Baptist raised from the dead? Since the gospels depict the disciples as raising the dead, how could they not have expected Jesus to rise as he predicted? What is the evidence for Polycarp as the NT redactor? Were there alternate "ecumenical" councils and rival creeds? Were there various versions of the Nicene Creed? If Jesus had no human father, how did he have any DNA besides Mary's? What do you think of Eugene Nida's theory of "dynamic equivalence" translation? Does the Bible stand for moderation with alcohol, or abstinence? Why should the apocalyptic imagery of the Synoptic Apocalypse be taken any more literally than that of the OT prophets? What is the evidence that some dated Jesus in the 1st century BCE? How old are the first NT mss? | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAugust 30th The Bible Geek Podcast | Suggest Christian origins books from Mythicist and non-Mythicist viewpoints? Why would anyone fabricate the baptism and political execution of Jesus if he were originally a myth? Why do NT writers take narrative from Josephus instead of direct from the LXX? Was Paul a chauvinistic theocrat? Are the catholicizing interpolations in his letters? What thinketh the Geek re abortion? Who are the Geek's presidential preferences? How about a Geek aufdiobook of the Bible? Why do the evangelists draw upon Josephus for their "history" rather than the LXX? Might the Genthsemane streaker have been a vestige of docetism? Sam Harris revisited. | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAugust 29th The Bible Geek Podcast | Richard Dawkins, Thomas Aquinas, and transubstantiation. Why are the Pastorals considered pseudepigraphical? What other NT books are? What are the Seven Spirits in the Book of Revelation? Doesn't the commandment to have no gods but Jehovah imply not monotheism but monolatry? What does John 1:1 mean? Is the Word the same as God? How do the teachings of Jesus and Paul differ? What did Paul know of Jesus? Please summarize the range of views on Predestination. If Jesus really raised Lazarus, why do the synoptics not mention it? What about Randel Helms's theory that the Lazarus story is based on that of Osiris? Did religion begin as just a scheme for manipulating and controlling people? Is it analogous to the way in which some have believed Lovecraft's fictitious Necronomicon was real? Do the biblical stories retain any real value today? | 8/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAugust 27th The Bible Geek Podcast | Does the Matthean version of the disciple walking on water differ from the Buddhist version because of a Christian emphasis on faith rather than meditation? Is the Testimonium Flavianum authentic? Are the gospels factual? Is it fair to regard the doctrine of the Trinity as a test to screen out critical thinkers? Why would Luke have thought, as he has Abraham say, that a man rising from the dead would convince no one not already repenting from reading scripture? Should the government provide chaplains in public schools? Is there any biblical basis for evangelistic altar calls? Why bother changing "BC/AD" to "BCE/CE" since so many religions and cultures are still excluded? When Jesus accuses Jewish leaders' predecessors of having killed the Prophets, who does he mean? What do harmonists make of the fact that in Mark and Luke Jesus heals Peter's mother in law before calling him as one of the 12, while Matthew has the healing occur much later? What of the apologetic claim that it was 2 different groups of women who visited Jesus' tomb, so as to distribute contradictory details between them? Why does Gen. 2:24 have Adam "cleave to" his wife when today "to cleave" means separation? | 8/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAugust 26th The Bible Geek Podcast | Whence the phrase "Bullgeschichte"? Where did Martin Luther say Jesus and Mary Magdalene were a couple? What is the scholarly citation for the Asclepius story that parallels the Emmaus story? Do the Christological contradictions with Luke and within Acts imply multiple authorship? Which movies from a recent list are really Gnostic? What is the difference between the Buddhist Anatta doctrine and the Hindu Advaita doctrine? What about the documentary "Zeitgeist" and the work of Acharya S? | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAugust 25th The Bible Geek Podcast | What major views of the afterlife occur in the Bible and in Christian theology? Are some more influenced by Plato? Does the Geek misrepresent Sam Harris? Please review The Last Temptation of Christ. The gospels appear to be compatible with either a historical but mythologized Jesus theory or a Christ-Myth theory. How do we decide? | 8/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAugust 24th The Bible Geek Podcast | Why the animus against Egypt in Exodus since archaeology shows Israel was never there? How could Daniel have been written in the 160s when it is included in the LXX, which hadn't yet been translated? Could Paul have had an epileptic seizure on the way to Damascus? Could the compassionate Jesus, the vengeful Yahve, and the tricky Satan be a single deity with a multiple personality disorder? Isn't the myth of the Serpent in Eden another version of Prometheus? Is the hero of the Book of Daniel supposed to be the same as the far older Canaanite hero Danel? Does transubstantiation allow that a guy could chop the consecrated host with a hatchet and see it bleed? Why do some exempt their economic theories from the skepticism they use on the Bible and religion? Isn't it unfair to accuse Catholics of "worshiping" Mary and the Saints when they believe they are merely asking honored Christians (in heaven) to pray for them? Why is the right hand considered more noble and holy than the left, even in the Bible? | 8/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAugust 23rd The Bible Geek Podcast | Might Paul have converted to Christianity to attain privilege and power? Might Mark's gospel be an edited version of Matthew and Luke? What's the original purpose/function of the business in Mark about Jesus being taken for a resurrected John the Baptist? How many deities are mentioned in the Bible and what is a good resource for this? How old is the Didache? Why do Matthew and Luke include a virgin birth story beside a genealogy? What's the story on the contradictory dates for Jesus' birthday between Matthew & Luke? Do fundamentalists at least hold a consistent theology, even if false? What is the Kebra Nagast? And are Rastafarians a Jewish of Christian sect? If Secret Mark were the original, might the Bartimaeus pericope be a replacement for the resurrection of the young man in Secret Mark? Does the Bible really assign Russia a role in end-time prophecy? How can Romans 13 possibly endorse the crazy notion that the government is always right? Does Romans 9 really teach arbitrary predestination of individuals, or is that out of context? | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAugust 20th The Bible Geek Podcast | What was the original intent of John's baptism? Is the John passage in Josephus an interpolation? Was the Philadelphian church in Revelation 3:7 Jewish-Christian, anti-Pauline? Are apologists unaware of recent biblical archaeology? Is the fictional character of the OT "history" destructive to Christian credibility? Why should faith justify? Did Josephus and Tacitus really believe in a historical Hercules? What's with all the different(?) Jesuses in NT times? How to interpret Exodus 4:24-26, where God seeks to kill Moses, etc.? Is the NT Book of Revelation at all distinctive among the apocalyptic genre? What is the evidence for Yahve being a dying and rising God? Ditto for Adam being originally the eponymous ancestor of the Edomites? Was the Book of Revelation (based on) a pre-Christian text? If Jesus' divine and his human wills were always in accord, what do we make of his reluctance in Gethsemane to be crucified? And if he was God, how could he be ignorant of the time of the end? Is the John 5 story of the Pool of Bethdsaida an anti-sacramental pericope or a put down of a non-Christian healing shrine? | 8/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAugust 14th The Bible Geek Podcast | Why has no one forged the Marcionite Canon, just to raise hell, as some may have done in the cases of the Secret Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Judas? Could Christians have originated the whole idea of a Messiah, with Jews offering an alternative version? Does deification of Rabbi Schneerson, who never even claimed to be the Messiah, provide an analogy for Jesus having been deified after the fact? If the gospels are based on solar mythology, did the evangelists necessarily knew that, or were they writing after this original impetus had been hybridized with the memory of a prophet and myths from various sources? Why is Satan often called "the enemy"? Did ancient Jews ever actually observe the Jubilee Year? The Orthodox Jewish view on abortion. Why are there no early Jewish gospel parodies like the Toledoth Jeschu, or Hebrew translations of Matthew as we find in the Middle Ages? | 8/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAugust 11th The Bible Geek Podcast | Are differences in wording between Matthew and Luke due to both independently translating a common Aramaic original? Do the 5 Points of Calvinism accurately distill Biblical teaching? Why does Mark lack the long section of the Wilderness Temptation story found in Matthew and Luke? Should not biblicists oppose capital punishment, given that Christ's death abolished sacrifices and Leviticus makes execution as purification? Who was the angel Penemue in 1 Enoch? Is it true there are only fragmentary mss of Revelation? Do the gospel stories of the disciples rebuffing certain seekers imply an otherwise suppressed Gnostic version in which Jesus excluded the non-elect from his teaching? | 8/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAugust 9th The Bible Geek Podcast | Who was the Beloved Disciple? Had Lee Strobel read "The Case Against The Case for Christ?" How can Jesus have been attending a wedding in Cana (John) and been spending 40 days in the Judean desert (Synoptics) at the same time? How and when did Rationalistic explanations of the Bible enter into Church of England education? In Acts 14, where Paul and Barnabas are identified by the crowd as Zeus and Hermes, is this a demotion aimed at Christians who actually worshiped the apostles? Which had more attesting witnesses: the Book of Mormon, or the Gospel of John? What is Price's favorite heresy? Moabite/Ammonite jokes in Genesis 19. | 8/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAugust 8th The Bible Geek Podcast | Did the author of Joshua intend us to believe he was a contemporary of Rahab and therefore of Joshua? What does it mean for Ruth to have uncovered the feet of Boaz? Doesn't the reference to banks and interest in the Parable of the Talents imply a non-Jewish Sitz-im-Leben? Does Margaret Barker reject the JEDP hypothesis? Are any NT authorship claims correct? Why would anyone claim Jesus is as historically well attested as Augustus? Did Jews or Gentiles convert to early Christianity; among which group did it begin? Darius the Mede in Daniel. Are the gospels based on astrology/ancient astronomy? Does new computer software hold much promise for the study of biblical authorship? Is there some extra-canonical text in which Abraham, Mechizedek and Job meet up? Who expanded Acts into the Western version? Is there archaeological evidence for human sacrifice in ancient Israel? If Job 3:8 mentions the monster Leviathan, why does the KJV conceal it? What led to the emergence of the Axial Age? | 8/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAugust 4th The Bible Geek Podcast | Jesus lying to his brothers about not going up to the Jerusalem feast. William Lane Craig's arguments. Deepak Chopra: what's wrong with him? The worst historical errors of the Bible. Are scholars who merely snip out miracle stories and accept the rest not just rewriting their own Bible fictions? Would a "hair dresser" be a woman of shame as you say "Magdalene" denoted? Are Allah and Yahve the same god? In John 8:44, your Pre-Nicene NT translates "homicide" instead of "murderer"--why? Parfitt's book, "Lost Ark of the Covenant." Cain and the ancient mysticism of metallurgy. Was Justin Martyr quoting from our gospels or from a harmony? | 8/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAugust 3rd The Bible Geek Podcast | The Greek words relative to the doctrine of an eternal Hell. Why is the church not more prominent a topic in the gospels? Job 19:23-29--what does it mean? What became of the Marcionites and the Gnostics? Has any discovery comparable to the Nag Hammadi Library been made recently? | 8/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAugust 2nd The Bible Geek Podcast | Is "born gain" a mistranslation in John 3? What does the Bible mean by saying we are made in God's image? According to Intelligent Design, fine tuned universe advocates, shouldn't God's mid-course corrections (miracles) have left atomic and sub-atomic markers? Doesn't it seem like people (including the biblical writers) were simply ascribing their own opinions to their God? Zoroastrian influence on Judaism and Christianity? The attempt of apologists to redefine words when the usual rendering would be inconvenient. How should "peace on Earth; good will to men" (KJV) really be translated? | 8/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJuly 30th The Bible Geek Podcast | Significance of Gideon's nickname Jerub-Baal. Biblical basis for cardinal doctrines of Christianity. Would the Gospel authors had been well known within their communities and why were they not more prolific? Unitarians and the divinity of Christ. Alternative book trading resource. Founding Fathers and their Deism. Evangelical bias in the NIV. Geek's opinion on (N)RSV. James Barr's books on Fundamentalism. What do we know about the authorship of the Book of Proverbs (it's not Solomon writing to his son, is it)? What are pre-, post- and amillenials all about? | 7/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJuly 20th The Bible Geek Podcast | Aren't most common Christians essentially dealing with a Mythic Jesus even though they think Jesus is an historical figure? Is there such a thing as a secular religion? Was Luther really an anti-Semite? Why won't people let the Sermon on the Mount speak for itself rather than reading Lutheranism into it? Did Lovecraft intend Cthulhu to be transcendent and indescribable? Would it be a case of "multiple attestation" that Mathew an Luke agree on Jesus being born in Bethlehem and living in Nazareth? Does Acts subordinate Paul to the 12 in the service of anti-Marcionite propaganda? | 7/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJuly 19th The Bible Geek Podcast | Christianity & Anti-semitism. How do scholars date books of the Bible? What makes a good theologian? The Greek of he long Ending of Mark. Wat does the early addition of the longer ending imply as to the faithfulness of transmission of text & tradition in early Christianity? The direction the Nile flows. Misleading use of scientific concepts by New Agers. "To this day" as a sign or distance from the narrated events in the OT and Matthew. The ignorance of the Gnostic Demiurge. Does the Bible imply God is male, female, or neither? Later additions to Paul's letters to disqualify women leaders of the church. Is there reason to think any noncanonical gospels are as old as the official four? | 7/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJuly 18th The Bible Geek Podcast | Polycarp as the compiler and editor of the NT. Examining The Ten Commandments and other popular films: do they shape people's reading of the Bible. Does the KJV have any particular bias? Are nonbelievers really repressing an innate knowledge of God? If so, which one? | 7/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJuly 17th The Bible Geek Podcast | Manuscript evidence for Mark 16:9-20. Myths of Ganesha. Do Catholics worship Mary? What about Mormon apologist Hugh Nibley? What did the Bogomils believe? How about the Manicheans? How can the OT prophets have predicted Jesus' resurrection when Ezekiel thought it a bad idea in the case of Tammuz? | 7/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJuly 16th The Bible Geek Podcast | What are some major Bible contradictions? Dealing with recently converted biblicists who are giving you heat for being an atheist. Was 2 Enoch the product of an Enoch cult? Ancient mid-eastern pantheons, archaeology, and the emergence of Hebrew monotheism. Michael Goulder notes the parallel between Luke's compact set of blessings and woes in Luke 6 and the beatitudes of Matthew 5 and the woes of Matthew 26. Is this evidence that Matthew copied from Luke, or vice versa, without a Q source? How can a benevolent God have created a human race in order to damn most of them to hell? | 7/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJuly 12th The Bible Geek Podcast | Did Adam have sex with the animals? Why do I call Frank Morison a hack? Did the genocidal fictions of the Deuteronomic History serve to buttress a claim of pure Israelite descent from time immemorial and to deny admixture with other ethnic groups? Explain Altizer's Death of God Theology? What does "faith" mean in the Bible and why is it so central? Why do "scholars" take for granted that Gospel geography is accurate and that, if it is, that guarantees a historical Jesus? Was John's gospel written to refute Thomas'? Might NT references to "dogs" refer to Cynics? What sort of evidence would convince the Geek that Jesus really lived? What sort of a modern gospel would the Geek write? Good books on Coptic Christianity and on Islamic origins? Can Christianity be considered a failure as well as a success in that the original Ebionites dried up and vanished? Why do so many take the Bible literally and allow faith to cover up cognitive dissonance? Is Secret Mark real or a hoax? | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJuly 11th The Bible Geek Podcast | Origin of the divine Name, Was there really widespread persecution of Christians? Evolution of biblical demonology. Should the Pope sell the Vatican treasures to feed the poor? How to get rid of a pesky Witnesses? Latest feasible date of the gospels? Explaining R. Dawkins's quip that theology has no subject matter. The man who fled naked from Gethsemane. Doesn't Luke/the Marcionite Gospel contain evidence that the evangelist was not in fact a docetist? Is there some continuous thread throughout the Bible connecting Yahve, Judah, David & Jesus versus El, Benjamin, King Saul & Paul? Was there an Ark of the Covenant and were the cherubim depicted as having sex? If Romans really killed the crucified before every sabbath started, why would they bother using crucifixion at all? It was a slow, days-long death. Might Mark and Q have been in effect a 2 volume work? Wasn't the suffering and temporary death of Jesus actually a pretty light sentence? | 7/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJuly 9th The Bible Geek Podcast | Various questions re Saul Levin's book The father of Joshua/Jesus. Does the Protevangelium of James have Mary bear Jesus at the tender age of 12 so as to avoid her being "polluted" by the onset of menstruation? How many Christian sects were there in the 2nd century? Since Jesus recaps almost all miracles of Elijah and Elisha, why doesn't he make a barren woman fertile as they did? What passages have been added to the NT mss? What goofs do the gospels make in depicting Jewish customs? If "Mary" had a sister with the same name, does that imply the evangelists renamed the mother of Jesus to conceal some earlier name? Which was first: Joshua leveling a curse on whomsoever should ever rebuild Jericho, or the 1 Kings story where someone does and it costs him his son? How reliable is ancient-language philology? Isn't Whately right when he argues that if you apply Strauss's skepticism to Napoleon you would deny his existence, too? What about the historical existence of Peter and Paul? What is the best compilation of Bible errors? | 7/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJuly 6th The Bible Geek Podcast | Realized eschatology: what Christian groups today would espouse this more world-affirming theology? Why the occasional references to Jesus' disciples as "servants"? How did Christianity begin and develop from disparate sources? Would it be worth destroying P52 in order to carbon-date it once and for all? Are Jehovah's Witnesses correct that Jesus must have been hung up on a simple post instead of a cross? Do the Sufi sayings ascribed to Jesus by al-Ghazali reinforce the likelihood that the Cynic-sounding sayings in Q are also products of ascetic converts to Christianity? What are the implications of Paul's Epaphroditus being the same as the Epaphroditus to whom Josephus dedicated his works? Why should we think Mary Magdalene was a w***e? Is she part of the triple goddess? Were John the Baptist and Jesus brother gods each representing half the year? | 7/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJuly 5th The Bible Geek Podcast | Independence Day, July 2nd and Casey Anthony verdict. Free recommended university courses: search "Yale New Testament" on youtube.com and see www.philipharland.com. Recommended works on: the doctrinal, sociological and historical context of the various Church Councils; all known Christian/Jewish/Gnostic sects of the early centuries of the Common Era. Who were the earliest Christians? Can the apocalyptic, fear-based sects and the "California Dreaming" forms of Christianity be reconciled? What about Buddhism as an alternative? Suggestion: a section on the early church Fathers each podcast? Why Galatians is not evidence for a historical apostolic dispute between Paul, James, et al. Were there two or more major historical prototypes for the New Testament Jesus? Science Fiction stories about Jesus. Impalement was not a slow death. Biblical passages with numbers and the like might be more historical, based on Medieval chronicals. How did Christianity begin without a historical Jesus? What Christian heresy did John Chrysostom consider Islam to be? Is John 21 a worthy ending for the gospel, mere rhetoric, or were forthcoming writings being hinted at? Does Moses' "horns" hint at a Pan connection or to the sun gods? James Tabor's bad evidence nails the historical crucifixion. | 7/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJuly 2nd The Bible Geek Podcast | Hadrian, Nero, and dating Revelation. Was the Testimonium Flavianum of Josephus authentic but interpolated? The Sons of God and daughters of men and Greek mythology. Protestant Rationalists and their influence. The 3 and 8 Witnesses to the Book of Mormon. | 7/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJune 28th The Bible Geek Podcast | Beth-Lahu/Lahamu and Bethlehem. Why the variations between "Jesus Christ," "Christ Jesus," etc.? Does God literally forget our forgiven sins? Is the propitiation theory of the atonement a product of the Reformation? Given the preordination of Jesus' death, would he have had to crucify himself if no one else played their parts? | 6/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJune 23rd The Bible Geek Podcast | Are "Messianic Jews" just fundamentalists trying to con Jews into converting? What do you think of Julian Jaynes' theory of the origin of consciousness and its relevance to the Bible? Did the evangelists mean to be taken as writing history, given their use of well-known pagan myths, etc.? Was Hyam Maccoby being circular in isolating certain gospel passages as an underlying Nazareen Gospel? Maccoby believed Jews were monotheistic in NT time, while Margaret Barker believed not. Who is more accepted among scholars? Was Luke's Jesus non-violent or a Zealot? A good book on Greek myths? Strong's Concordance and the "Kittel Mentality." | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJune 20th The Bible Geek Podcast | Gods and monsters in the Genesis creation. is there a single convincing prophecy of Jesus as Messiah? A single good historical argument for Jesus? A possible Marcionite origin of the Harrowing of Hell doctrine? Why does Matthew double Mark's miracles? Given the gravity of the atonement, why was Jesus not shown dying in a worse way? Weren't some available? The distinction between ceremonial and moral laws in scripture--is it valid? Was Hell an original Christian doctrine? Where did it come from? Is it first described in the Apocalypse of Peter? Are most Christians Trinitarians in name only? | 6/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJune 19th The Bible Geek Podcast | Does Mark preserve a historical core report of a compassionate, simple teacher, obscured by the vituperative Jesus of other gospels? How do apologists deal with the logistical problems of Cap'n Noah's voyage? More on Adam's rib or side. Does Luke's parable of the king going on a far journey form a precedent for Christians killing their enemies? Were Yahve's 2 companions who went on into Sodom his angelic enforcers mentioned elsewhere in scripture? The saving message of Thomas, and is Thomas independent of the canonical gospels? Was John's wine miracle a one-upping of the similar miracle of Dionysus? Is Matthew's Nativity star based on Bar Kochba? Are dry statistics in the Bible likely to be historically genuine even if borrowed from other contexts? Why is monotheism thought superior to polytheism? What's the point of fire imagery in the Bible? Did those who believed in Jesus because they saw him necessarily possess saving faith? Is 2nd-hand faith enough? Were any biblical or apocryphal books written by women? A time-travel novel about Jesus. | 6/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJune 17th The Bible Geek Podcast | Didn't Jesus' references to the fate of Sodom imply the big sin was rejecting the messengers of God, with no hint of homosexuality? Why so many young folks in fundamentalist churches? Is religious sectarianism a vestige of tribalism? Was the story of Jesus blessing the children a pitch for child evangelism? Should Muslims and others be called "fundamentalists" given that the word originally described conservative Protestants? Does the text about cutting off one's hand, feet, etc. imply the retaining of mutilations in heaven? Instances of bits of liturgy becoming narrative in the gospels. Do Sufi Sayings of Jesus # 65 preserve a pre-apocalyptic version of the prediction of the destruction of the temple? Does Jesus vow at the Last Supper provide the basis for Baptist teetotaling? Why don't Baptists dance? Has anyone written a sci-fi version of the Jesus story? Did the Noah story originally include an unleashing of Leviathan? If Jesus' death originally occurred (in the myth) in the heavenly world, why has it become a crucifixion? Isn't the Geek's brutish wish to nuke Iran like God destroying Sodom's righteous along with their sinners? Do the water and blood on the cross refer to the Eucharist and baptism? Does Jeremiah's prophecy of a "new covenant" really mean a new Torah, or no more Torah, as Christians claim? | 6/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJune 16th The Bible Geek Podcast | Four phrases that occur in both Mark and in Q by the usual reckoning--might they indicate instead that Matthew adapted the Markan version for a second usage, and then Luke copied them from Matthew? What is the scriptural evidence for the Harrowing of Hell? Is Christianity polytheistic? If the Mark 13 prediction of the End coming in Jesus' own generation went unfulfilled, why didn't they omit it? | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJune 7th The Bible Geek Podcast | Why would the devil be depicted as a red-hided monster? Not very tempting! Why would Biblical Archaeology Review defend the authenticity of Secret Mark almost as a settled issue? Is Mark's baptism story based on the Testaments of Judah and Levi? Is the Lukan parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus based on the Markan story of the Syro-Phoenician Woman? An alternative interpretation of the Parable of the Unjust Steward. Lovecraft versus Derleth. How can Catholic theology maintain the doctrine of Original Sin while admitting there was no literal Adam and Eve? | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJune 5th The Bible Geek Podcast | Evolution of belief in Hell. Black Israel sects. Marvin Meyer and Dennis MacDonald on the creation of Judas Iscariot. Biblical Archaeological Review or Biblical Apologetics Review? Origin of Ecclesiastes. | 6/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJune 1st The Bible Geek Podcast | The Cynic Jesus hypothesis, Open Theism. Was Mary Magdalene based on Helen the ex-prostitute companion of Simon Magus? Did Paul really persecute the church? More on whether a "living God" can be said to encompass death. Why do people think those who are caught up in the Rapture will be naked? If God didn't intend Adam and Eve to have sex, why did he make them sexually compatible?" Mustn't Harold Camping have known that the Biblical data he used are not exact or specific enough for his calculations to work? Why did the biblical writers use leaven as a symbol of insidious corruption? Why not poison? Have you done higher criticism on the Necronomicon? | 6/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 29th The Bible Geek Podcast | Might Jesus have been, a la Isaiah 53, a symbol for the Jews collectively? What are some examples of marks of literary style enabling us to distinguish different NT authors and sources? Which superhero might be worshiped as a god in the far future if civilization had collapsed and most records were destroyed? Which one would most likely be taken to have been a real historical figure? Does the increasing secularization of society explain the resurgence in popularity of Lovecraft? Why do people find the Christ Myth theory incredible when it seems the evangelists copied the OT just as Joseph Smith did the Bible to make the Book of Mormon? How can Biblical minimalists enhance their cause in a climate hostile to it (cf recent Biblical Archaeology Review)? Why do pastors fail to communicate even the elements of Biblical criticism to their flocks? Didn't they learn it in seminary? Possible analogies for the Trinity? Did the parable of the fig tree predict the founding of the State of Israel in 1948? Was Revelation predicting events in the near future? What does Galatians mean when it says Christ "became a curse," not just "accursed," for us? Is Burton Mack correct that Galilee was thoroughly hellenized in Jesus' time? | 5/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 28th The Bible Geek Podcast | Might "angels" in the Letter to the Hebrews really intend "messengers," the OT prophets? Are there cases of rationalizing miracles in the OT? Is there evidence of Gnosticism in the seven letters of Revelation? Might Luke have included Mary's genealogy under Joseph's name as some suggest? Would the OT legislators have been open to rethinking the prohibition of homosexuality if we could explain it to them hypothetically? Why John the Baptist was not an Essene. What is the point of the baffling Lukan parable of the Unrighteous Steward? Does it have redactional stages? Has Luke perhaps added the "Son of David" acclamation to the Bar-Timaeus story to promote his Christology? Don't analogies with great figures like Abe Lincoln make the historical existence of Jesus more likely? | 5/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 26th The Bible Geek Podcast | Can we take seriously modern attempts to revive (really, to recreate) ancient pagan religions? Why are the Mosaic tablets of the Law depicted as rectangles with arches across the tops? Apologetics parallels between Jesus and Superman. How does the Transfiguration fit with prohibitions of necormancy? Comparison of Biblical critics with the Hardy Boys! Does it matter that there are no mentions of Jesus in ancient historians? Would they have taken note of a local faith healer? Should fundamentalists stick with the grammatico-historical method or avail themselves of the esoteric exegesis of the NT writers? Why would God inspire/dictate the personal trivia found at the end of the various epistles? How can Bart Ehrman trust the textual history of Galatians so much when 150 years separate the writing from the first extant ms? A new theory of joint Markan-Matthean priority. What's the earliest non-Christian reference to Jesus? How can the well-educated people at the Vatican continue to "believe" the gospel story despite all its problems? Just in denial? | 5/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 25th The Bible Geek Podcast | What changes has the Geek discerned in American Christianity in the last decades? When was Passover eaten? And why do the gospels differ over Jesus being dead for 3 days and nights as opposed to rising on the 3rd day? Why do Protestants and Catholics differ over ghosts and apparitions? If Mark follows the structure of a Greek drama, with the climax placed at the midpoint, the confession of Peter, does this mean Jesus himself did not know earlier that he was the messiah? What's wrong with Vermes' translation of the DSS? Is Secret Mark genuinely ancient? Authorship and date of Hebrews? Lucifer in Isaiah 14 and as a title for Jesus? Has JEDP been disproven? Does 1 Thess 4:13 refer to the presence of Jesus in the midst of Christian radio call-in listeners? | 5/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 24th The Bible Geek Podcast | More about the Edenic "rib." What criteria tell us that a saying ascribed to a famous figure is historically inauthentic? Alia Capitolina. Does Revelation take place in a gigantic cosmic temple? To what extent did apocalypses embody OT (and even gospel) allusions as a genre convention? Could Solomon possibly have sacrifice so many thousands of livestock as the Bible records? Is it possible that some of the Hebrew Bible was translated from a Greek text? Were Paul, Simon Magus and Marcion the same historical individual? Since leaven is usually employed in the Bible as symbolic for corruption, could the parable of the leaven mean to warn against the influence of heretical sects? No mustard plant is big or sturdy enough for birds to nest in it. Was the story teller ignorant or is it some sort of comment on divine aid in the growth of the Church? The Geek says the Eden animals were seen to be poor companions for the Man because they could not talk. But the man and woman are not surprised to hear the serpent speak, so what gives? | 5/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 21st The Bible Geek Podcast | How could ostensible Biblical "literalists" have taken Harold Camping seriously? An open letter to Margaret Barker and her reply on textual corruption. Enoch and Hermeticism. Does Galatians' phrase "born of a woman" denote an anti-Marcionite interpolation or should it be connected with the ensuing Sarah-Hagar allegory? Why identify Paul with Simon Magus? Can we say God is a "living God" if "he" encompasses all things? Please comment on previous end-of-the-world disappointments. Is there any evidence that worship at the banned local "high places" continued in gospel times? Art Comino's temporary rapture to heaven. | 5/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 20th The Bible Geek Podcast | Could Paul be based on the OT Saul, the gospel Jesus on King David? Might "James, the brother of [Jesus]" be an interpolation into Josephus, leaving us an original text that described he trial and death of Jesus, not James? Are there evidence based accounts in the Bible? Based on Origen's description of Gnostic diagrams reminiscent of the Kabbalistic Sephiroth, might Kabbalah have derived in some measure from Gnosticism? Might the "star Christology" stem from Num, 24:17, Balaam's prophecy? Might the Wisdom of Solomon be a Christian work? Don't the gospels present us with too many incompatible Jesus figures? Might Simon Peter be another reworked version of Simon Magus? Do not Jesus' parables make his teaching less clear, not more? | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 18th The Bible Geek Podcast | Could Jesus, Paul, Theudas, and Ben Stad (not to mention Tyler Durden) have been the same individual? What might Higher Criticism lead us to believe about a historical Superman in the remote future? Reasons for Matthean priority to Mark as raised by Dr. Scaer in the recent Scaer/Price debate. Could the Jesus character have been originally intended as allegorical for Israel as a people? What if Revelation is the earliest NT writing? What social factors might have entered into canonization and the leaving intact of intergospel inconsistencies? | 5/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 15th The Bible Geek Podcast | Does the intra-Levite bloodbath in Exodus represent sectarian rivalry? If so, between whom? Why did Abraham argue with God to spare the largely corrupt Sodom but not raise a syllable of protest hen ordered to knife his own innocent child? Original Hebrew text for "Adam's rib." Why do atheists seem to be satisfied with staying on the same level with fundamentalists, arguing as if the real issue were whether there are errors or contradictions in the supposedly inerrant Bible? Which should be the default hypothesis re Jesus: he was a historical figure laden by myth, or he was a fictional invention? Why does Koran 40:36-37 confuse Pharaoh, Hamaan, and Nimrod? Was Hebrews 13:22-25 interpolated to make the book look like a Pauline writing? Why do some pretribulationists imagine people stuck in the tribulation will nonetheless still have to/be able to exercise saving faith in Christ? Wouldn't it perfectly obvious, after seeing all the Christians disappear that they were right? What need/room for faith? Resources for studying the Books of Enoch? At the start of the Sodom story, three men appear before Abraham, but somehow Yahve speaks for/as all three. Is this an intimation of plurality in the Godhead? Are any animal species thought in the Bible to possess special powers, like cats in Egyptian belief? What are the oldest mss. for OT and NT? How to explain the early exponential growth of Christianity? Did Paul actually fight lions in Ephesus? | 5/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 14th The Bible Geek Podcast | Jesus as the Morning Star, a lost Christology? Was Judas the incarnation of Satan? Explaining the "men of Sodom" incident a la Margaret Barker's "angelic wisdom" paradigm. New confirmation of the Jubilee Year. What would it have meant to Jesus? Rashi on Adam's rib. Does Marcionism survive today? Is the OT superior to the NT? Was there belief in a historical Jesus in Pauline Christianity? Was the Trinity doctrine used as a shibboleth to weed out critical thinkers? | 5/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 13th The Bible Geek Podcast | How do you evaluate different versions of the Bible if you don't know Hebrew & Greek? More about Temples in the Bible. What is this Pietism that begat the "personal savior" doctrine? Evolution of Trinitarianism and the Holy Spirit. When apologists try to remove the sting of weird and offensive portions of the Bible by chalking them up to the ancient, alien context, isn't this to abandon the divine character of the Bible and its commands? 1 Clement seems to have no knowledge of the gospels' Jesus character. Mustn't the gospels have been current by this time? Isn't the gospel Jesus more a literary than a legendary product? | 5/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 12th The Bible Geek Podcast | The Talmud of Immanuel. How and when did Catholic orthodoxy squeeze out "heretical" rivals? How many temples does the Bible mention? Are the Tabernacle and the Tent of Meeting the same? When does scholarly consensus matter? Do the Gospels ever make use of the Epistles? | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 11th The Bible Geek Podcast | Imagine if apologists tried to prove the historical accuracy of Jesus' ascension by Habermas's "minimal facts" approach to the resurrection? Bayesian probability? Harold Camping's Doomsday prediction--is it like yelling "fire" in a crowded theater? Margaret Barker on the theory that the primeval Adam was a hermaphrodite. The vaunted "miracle" of remission of cancer may be explained by viruses attacking the cancer cells or their hosts. Adam, Eve, and incest. Could Nicodemus by a fictive version of Rabbi Akiva? Does P52 secure a first century date for the Gospel of John? Christoph Luxenberg's reinterpretation of the Koran based on pre-Islamic Aramaic. | 5/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 9th The Bible Geek Podcast | Might Mary "Magdalene" have been not just some w***e but a temple "priestitute"? Might the "rib" God extracted from the man to form the woman have been intended as the bone in the p***s that most mammals possess, but we don't? The story would explain why the man lost it. Is the vaunted "grammatico-historical method" of Luther, venerated by Protestants, actually fatal to biblical inspiration and authority? Can a traditional view of biblical inspiration accommodate critical source hypotheses (JEDP, etc.)? | 5/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 8th The Bible Geek Podcast | What archaeological discovery does the Geek wish for? Can the intimidated Pilate possibly be referring to the "tradition" of Solomon's wisdom in dealing with cases? Can Barabbas be a symbol for the scapegoat? Which sects and denominations today carry on the emphases of early heretical sects? Reading recommendations for one who has left the faith? Should a dynamic personal relationship with Christ make one immune to doubting based on historical evidence or lack of it? Know anything about Edward Evanson, 18th century denier of Pauline authorship of Romans? | 5/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 4th The Bible Geek Podcast | Does Matthew 16 grant papal authority as Catholics claim, while John 20 splits authority up among the leaders of the flock in general, as in Protestantism? What is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit so serious an offense? Isn't the Bible simply the collection of the lore of a particular ancient culture? What is the relationship between the various Jewish Christian gospels? Any comments on the late Gene Scott? Legends versus myths. Possible Buddhist influence on Christianity. | 5/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 2nd The Bible Geek Podcast | Were early Christians possibly amog the social elite? Where did baptism by immersion originate? Josephus describes his ascetical guru Bannus in a manner recalling John the Baptist; could the Baptist be a fiction based on Bannus? Might Jesus have begun as a pagan sun god? Might "Bethlehem" be a contraction of "Beth-Elohim" and denote a heavenly origin? What do you think of Alan Moore's work? What did it mean to officially deify Caesars, philosophers, and others? If the critic is performing an autopsy on the Bible, isn't the fundamentalist performing necrophilia with it? Do the kind folks at Westboro Baptist, who claim to be good Calvinists, really say they are acting like they as Calvinists are supposed to? | 5/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 27th The Bible Geek Podcast | Could there have been Buddhist and Taoist influence on the NT, and vice versa? Tell us about the Baha'i Faith. Whence the competing Lukan portraits of Jesus, collegial with the scribes as a child vs. the later rancor in debate? Debates between Mike Licona and Bart Ehrman. | 4/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 26th The Bible Geek Podcast | Best Bible versions (again)? Why if the Beast of the Apocalypse so frequently identified as Nero? If new scriptures were to be composed today, how might they be received? Was the J source written by Bathsheba, as per Harold Bloom? Theology and angels in DC'c JLA: Paradise Lost and Infinite Crisis. Thomas L. Brodie sees much of the NT as the LXX rewritten and entertains the possibility of pure Jesus Mythicism. Is he in fact a mythicist? Are more scholars coming to that view? Why do you dislike the Pope? Have other world religions escaped the historical fragmentation and evolution/distortion Christianity has suffered? | 4/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 24th (Easter) The Bible Geek Podcast | Might the shorter Jesus genealogy actually be a real genealogy of a different, earlier messianic candidate? Are Isaiah 7 and 8 talking about the same events? "Jesus," "Christos," "Chrestos" and the Christ Myth theory. If Moses had taught strict, true monotheism from the start, why would he bother to warn Israel not to worship gods they must already know were a joke? Good study Bibles. Why none compiled by Margaret Barker? Why do you, in the PNNT, add the business in Mark 9 about the damned getting devoured by Moloch in Gehenna? Why does John 16 promise that one day Jesus will leave off the figurative language and replace it with straight talk--only to have the disciples reply that, yes, now he is speaking clearly already? | 4/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 23rd The Bible Geek Podcast | Did they discover the nails pinning Jesus to the Cross? Did John's gospel originally begin with 1:19, "This is the testimony of John"? Is Maccoby's The Myth-Maker considered reputable scholarship? Why take Apollonus of Tyana as any more historical than Jesus? Is the cry of the Centurion at the cross a true confession of faith? Is Yahve supposed to be the Trinity, or just the Father, or just the Son? Why does Luke omit the section of Mark in which we find the Syro-Phoenician woman, the 2nd feeding miracle, the walking on water, etc? What about Dennis R. MacDonald's theory that Matthew used Mark, Luke used Matthew (and Mark?) plus the Dominical Logia of Papias, and there was no Q? | 4/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 21st The Bible Geek Podcast | How did the Holy Spirit make Mary pregnant? Might Mary have been raped? Does the Virgin Birth depend upon the charge of illegitimacy? Does the Bible favor Predestination or Free Will? Was the Good Samaritan anti-Simonian polemic? | 4/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 20th The Bible Geek Podcast | Can one harmonize John with the Synoptics on the day of the last Super and Jesus' crucifixion with reference to the Dead Sea Scrolls calendar? Is there a genuine letter from Herod Antipas? Should the Greek word be rendered "righteousness" or "justice"? Biblical and evangelical sex "ethics." What happened to The Jesus Project? Who was Alexander Jannius and what does he have to do with a 1st century BCE Jesus? Might the Lazarus resurrection in John 11 be a retelling of Jesus' resurrection story? What reason is there to place the Epistle of James in the 2nd century? How can apologists maintain Jesus' relatives were so hostile to him that a miraculous resurrection was required to make them change their minds? How could they be unbelievers in the first place given the nativity miracles and angelic visitations? Does Jeremiah 31:37 imply God no longer watches over his people, since we have in fact searched out the secrets of Heaven and Earth? How can Christians dedicate Psalm 109:8, an imprecatory psalm to President Obama, no matter how much they may disagree with him? Does the drubbing taken by the 12 in Mark signal a theological debate between Paulinists and adherents of the Jerusalem Pillars? Robert M. Fowler's Let the Reader Understand: Reader-Response Criticism and the Gospel of Mark is great! Any such treatments of other NT writings? | 4/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 18th The Bible Geek Podcast | Who or what was Azazel (Lev. 16)? Is the JEDP theory obsolete? Contradictions in the Lot story? Major OT contradictions. Does Philippians refer to anachronistic ecclesiastical structures? What does 2 Thess. 2:2 mean to condemn when it says some say the Day of the Lord is already here? Do most people have or take the time to give religion a deep and systematic study? Might the Jesus figure be based in part on Socrates? Where did King Josiah perish: Megiddo or Jerusalem? | 4/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 15th The Bible Geek Podcast | Recommend some books re the quest of the historical Buddha. Was Mary being sexually harassed when the Omnipotent Lord of All Things approached her to bear his child? Info, please, re Unitarian Universalism? Report on Gary Habermas's debates. The Levitical Scapegoat. Why were Mary of Bethany, Mary Magdalene and the Sinner of Luke 7 confused and identified? Spiritual proverb misattributed to Eckhardt on recent show. Why did Lot offer his daughters for rape if the Sodom mob did not have sex on their mind? Margaret Barker's biblical theology of the temple. How far can we follow the line of popes into genuine history? Is there really a link with the apostles? | 4/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 14th The Bible Geek Podcast | P-L Couchoud's analysis of the Marcionite version of the Pauline Epistles: convincing? How best to compare conventional OT readings with those from the Dead Sea Scrolls. When 1 Corinthians 15 says Christ suffered, died, and rose according to the scripture--what scriptures? What does it mean, "as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me"? What would be the Bible Geek's third doctorate if he had the time and money? What is the significance of repeated Bible numbers like 3, 7, 12, and 40? Did Jesus use parables to throw the unworthy off the track? Does demonic recognition of Jesus as Son of God, Holy One of God, etc., imply his divinity? Ditto his baptizing with the Spirit? Was the biblical "Sabbath" Saturday or Sunday? Was John's gospel trying to refute Thomas's gospel? | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 13th The Bible Geek Podcast | What are the earliest extrabiblical mentions of OT writings? What do Seventh Day Adventists believe? Did John use the Synoptics? Many see Mariology as derived from pagan mother goddess worship (Isis, Cybele, etc.). This would make sense given the Hellenistic syncretism of the day. Can the Jesus figre be the creation of the same conditions? What info re Gnosticism would have been available to H.P. Lovecrfat to have used it in creating his idiot of Azathoth? It the gospel writers were not the original disciples, who were they? Did God walk around naked in the Garden of Eden? | 4/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 12th The Bible Geek Podcast | Contradictions in the traditional Satan saga? Could Jesus have been seriously tempted? Did "Nazarene" mean "Holy One of God"? Why is there something rather than nothing? Was Isaiah 8's "prophetess" the prophet's wife or a pagan priestitute? Newly "discovered" lead codices connected with the Book of Revelation? Is there any book where someone understands the Bethany anointing as originally depicting the anointing and resurrection of Jesus? Did Jesus preach the Sermon on the Mount to the disciples, period, or outside throngs, too? Does the bible require tithing? | 4/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 11th The Bible Geek Podcast | The Bible Geek, April 11, 2011 Gary Habermas's lists of gospel Easter "facts" that 75% of NT scholars accept. What is the literary relationship between John and Luke? Is Acharya correct in quoting Augustine to the effect that true religion before Christ may have included mythemes from Egypt? Evidence from modern writing that different styles mean different authors, even in a co-authored work. Any more thoughts on whether Deuteronomy, a "new law" for a new generation, might actually be from the Persian period? Is there any NT basis for the horror-show eschatology of fundamentalists and Adventists? Was Thomas Paine right in defining ancient prophets as poets and musicians? | 4/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 8th The Bible Geek Podcast | What is the Alexameno Inscription? A lad worships a crucified man with a donkey head!? What about the Calpurnius Piso theory of NT origin? Why do scholars insist that Luke was earlier than Matthew? Isn't an anachronism of the temple's destruction in 1 Thess undermined by the fact that 2 Thess speaks of the temple as still standing and soon to be defaced by the Antichrist? What thinketh the Geek of Craig Evans's criticisms? What is Tartaros? Hellenistic Buddhism in Bactria. Richard Elliot Friedman's The Bible with Sources Revealed. | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 6th The Bible Geek Podcast | Why does the Bible depict God effortlessly defeating the pagan gods with no opposition? How can Mark have used Q? Should "Yahve" be pronounced in another manner based on inscriptions at Elephantine, Egypt? Did the Jesus Seminar find the Gospel of Thomas any more or less authentic than the other 4? Is Christian Lindtner right about the Buddhist origin of the Christian gospel? What do we make of an historical Jesus in Eisenman's James paradigm? Why consider 2 Peter a forgery? Consanguineous marriage in Judaism? | 4/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 4th The Bible Geek Podcast | Whence the mytheme of androgynous angels? Does apparent biblical antipathy toward homosexuality stem from mistranslations as liberal believers say? When one evangelists rewrites the words of Jesus from an earlier gospel, is this a pious fraud? How can it be authoritative if all knew it was fictional? What is the relationship between Gnosticism and Docetism? Can an agnostic afford to hold an open mind about paranormal phenomena? | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 2nd The Bible Geek Podcast | More on the leaden plates from Jordan--fake, fake, fake! More re the "unsalty salt" business in Mark. What are some genuine factual and theological contradictions in the Bible? What are some genuine spiritual-moral gems from the Bible? Should biblical prohibitions of shimp-eating, homosexuality, and women talking in church be abandoned as relics of the past? Celsus knows Jewish anti-Christian polemic, but when it comes to actual documents he sticks close to the canonical four. What does this tell us about the shape of the canon in the late 2nd century? Do Mark and John actually differ over the time Jesus was crucified, or was one referring to Roman time, the other Jewish? If the gospel teachings did not originate with an historical Jesus, mustn't we posit some Jesus-like religious reformer who did say them? How is it that no non-Christian historian ever refers to the extensive miracle-resumes of Peter and Paul as "recorded" in Acts? How could Matthew have known about Mrs. Pilate's dream? Isn't it a clear mark of fiction? | 4/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 1st The Bible Geek Podcast | Does the Luke 10 pericope about Mary and Martha stem from early monasticism? Was there a pre-Lukan meaning for the Good Samaritan parable? The "new" lead tablets: better than the Dead Sea Scrolls? Is speaking in tongues translatable? "The poor you always have with you, but not me!" What the heck does that mean? Bart Ehrman says we have independent Jesus sources in Mark, Q, Luke, John, Thomas, Josephus and Tacitus. Do we? Plus a list of Jesus "facts" derivable from these sources. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMarch 31st The Bible Geek Podcast | New Biblical discoveries in Jordan? Was there a Coptic MS of John lacking chapter 21? Is there anything to the hell belief, or is Universalism justified? Does P use a more primitive Hebrew than D? When Jesus tells the disciples not to fear him walking on the water and says, "I am," is he claiming to be the Jehovah from the burning bush? Are 1 Clement and the Ignatian Epistles authentic? How do they bear on the Christ Myth theory? What do Hebrew and Aryan myths of the Primordial Man have to do with Jesus and John the Baptist?Does Num. 5:12-28 describe a procedure for abortion? | 3/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFebruary 18th The Bible Geek Podcast | Is God ultimate or subordinate to morality? If he is all-powerful, how can he be good? Good study Bibles? Does the Bible condemn homosexuality? Doesn't apostolic succession imply a historical Jesus? | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFebruary 14th The Bible Geek Podcast | Richard Bauckham's book, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses. Papias versus Form Criticism. Was Hebrews the product of a sect that revered the Tabernacle but repudiated the Jerusalem temple? An example of old-time Rationalism: Pharaoh's sorcerers used real snakes, paralyzed and coated in clay, snapping out of it as they fell to the ground! Why do demoniacs tell the truth about Jesus in the gospels if Satan is the Father of Lies? Aren't there as many intelligent theists as there are atheists, even though there are many, many unintelligent theists, too? | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFebruary 11th The Bible Geek Podcast | What evidence is there that the nations mentioned in Ezekiel 38-39 would have been leagued against Israel? Is that a better theory than that Ezekiel was predicting modern nations attacking Israel? Is Gal. 6:11 a post-Pauline interpolation? Are there "Doubting Thomas"episodes outside the NT and Apollonius of Tyana? Any suggestions for a public library's religion shelf? How is atheistic naturalism compatible with evidence of miracles? Hitler's religious motivation for genocide. John vs. Mark on Jesus' call to Peter and Andrew. Another explanation of the Jerusalem defenders crying out, "The son cometh!" in Josephus. | 2/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFebruary 7th The Bible Geek Podcast | Is there increasing sophistication in later miracle contest in the OT? Moses and Aaron vs the Egyptian priests turning sticks to snakes seems more of a fairy tale than the prophets of Baal vs Elijah. What is the difference between the terms "Israeli," "Israelite," "Hebrew," "Jew," etc.?Were stories where the second-born supplants the first-born hinting that the first-born was not a valid sacrifice? What is the archaeological evidence for Israelite child sacrifice? What ancient polytheistic beliefs lie beneath the redaction of stories where angels do God's business? Melchizedek in Hebrews. Might Isaiah have been fathering his sons on sacred cult prostitutes? Is it arrogant for the atheist minority to think they know better than their fellow countrymen who believe in God? Matthew has far more prophetic fulfillments than Luke and Mark; did he get them from Q, using material Luke left out? What's the difference between the Holy Spirit and the Logos? | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFebruary 5th The Bible Geek Podcast | What are son of man and son of god supposed to mean? Why did Zipporaah circumcise Gershom and touch the foreskin to Moses' p***s? If there was no historical Jesus, when can we say Christianity began? Among the Qumran sect? Dr. Gary Breshears' new theory on biblical creation. Weren't Romans, not Jews, the real "Christ-killers"? How did the serpent of Eden originally get around if he was only subsequently forced to crawl? Did the narrator mean this story to be taken literally? | 2/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 31st The Bible Geek Podcast | Why does Walter Kaufmann (The Faith of a Heretic) seem to take the OT at face value? Contemporary use of "adelphos" (brother) in NT era Greek and its bearing on Josephus and James the Just. Why is Balaam depicted as a villain in the NT but not in the OT? Why believe the various divine names in the OT originally referred to different deities? Is there published version of the Bible that distinguishes its underlying source documents? The antisemitism of some of today's fundamentalists and charismatics. The Prenicene New Testament version of "Let his blood cover us and our children." John's Gethsemane arrest scene--why dismiss it as fictional? And how are we to tell when a writer intended a scene as non-historical? | 1/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 30th The Bible Geek Podcast | Why did Jesus (Lk 14) warn potential followers to think twice? And why do evangelicals ignore this? Who were first known historical Christians, as opposed to probably mythical characters? Was "Christianoi" originally a derogatory term? How can we tell which is primary or secondary when the gospels overlap with Josephus and Pseudo-Philo? Were Israelites Canaanites? In Matthean "prophetic fulfillment" claims how can we tell whether the story is made up on the basis of the cited text, or the citation is used to buttress a story already being told? Was Hitler an atheist? What motivated his persecution of Jews? | 1/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 29th The Bible Geek Podcast | If Jesus was even tempted to sin, didn't he sin according to his own criterion in the Sermon on the Mount: the inner is just as bad as the outer? In Acts 16, when it says the Lord opened Lydia's heart to believe, is that a direct act of overruling her free will? Polygamy in Israel and Scripture. Was the J writer female? Beyesian Probability. Who did Cain marry? | 1/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 27th The Bible Geek Podcast | Book of Mormon and Book of Isaiah. John 4 and the Samaritan woman. Is there a post-modern faith that can learn from all religions equally and which does not require the sacrifice of the intellect? | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 25th The Bible Geek Podcast | Gal. 2:17-18: being found sinners in the attempt to be justified in Christ.J.J. Blunts Undesigned Coincidences in the Writings both of the Old and New Testaments. OT human sacrifice and stories in which a firstborn is superseded by a second-born.How best to get into the Higher Critical Hit parade reading list. Major scholars who have influenced the Bible Geek? Women in organized atheism. | 1/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 21st The Bible Geek Podcast | The "Blood libel" in Matthew. Does the concluding warning of Revelation not to add or take away from the text refer to that book alone or the whole Bible? How does this bear on textual criticism and the canon? A challenger at a Price-Rankin debate seemed to suggest he lead a crusade for Price's no-Jesus gospel. Was he serious? | 1/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 16th The Bible Geek Podcast | The origins of Yahve. The problem of evil. Rapture and tribulation. Was Yahve a storm god, a war god, or both? Are the gospels, etc., based on ancient religious drama? Does the inclusion of so many OT quotes in the Pauline epistles imply they are not Marcionite in origin? Tithing. Did Mithraism influence Christianity? How can Justin argue both that Christian beliefs are so similar to pagan ones that the latter ought not reject them, and that Satan counterfeited these "copies" in advance? | 1/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 15th The Bible Geek Podcast | Why more women in religion--and in free-thought? Again, does the Bible depict God as omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent? Why does god not stop Satan right now if he i all-powerful? John vs. the Synoptics. | 1/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 14th The Bible Geek Podcast | Elaine Pagels and scholarly mispronunciations, Matthew as a post-Marcionite, anti-Marcionite document, meaning of "fulfill" and "abolish" mean in the NT, Ten Commandments, Kenite hypothesis, biblical slavery, omni-presence, -science and -potence in view of Yahwe being son of El Elyon, Japanese Anime and Biblical myth. | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 13th The Bible Geek Podcast | Tim LaHaye and the Millennium. Jehovah's Witnesses and the belief in Gehenna: was it a hell pit or a toxic landfill outside Jerusalem? What's with the parallel between Genesis 19 and Judges 19-20? In what order does Margaret Barker place the writing of the OT books? Luke has Herod and Pilate both try Jesus: does this undermine Luke's apologetics agenda? Raphael Patai and the number of Jewish kings who worshiped Asherah. Might the Judge Gideon be the same as Gad the Seer? | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 12th The Bible Geek Podcast | Is it wrong for publishers to offer works representing only one of the available viewpoints? Does Leviticus speak of human sacrifice when it speaks of "devoting to destruction?" What rules of biblical interpretation were current in Judaism? The use of Bayesian probability theory in biblical scholarship. The influence of 1 Enoch in the NT. Why does the Antichrist bother when he must know how it will end for him, having read the Bible? Is Islam, as is often said, a Christian heresy? Does Matthew criticize Marcion and is it therefore Post-Marcion? Zoroastrian Magi in Matthew? Are people invulnerable to critical arguments because their attachment to religion is based on emotion, not intellect? Doesn't the NRSV just continue the intra-biblical process of evolution via redaction and rewriting the tradition? | 1/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 3rd The Bible Geek Podcast | Was the serpent of Eden the same as the snake god Nehushtan? Was there a historical Peter? What can we know of him? How do apologists fail to see they have proven nothing when they can only plead that you can't prove early Christianity borrowed elements from paganism, and that it might have been the other way around? The Virgin Birth: what sort of a sign? Does Mormonism actually restore important aspects of early Christianity? Did the emergence of the Christ Myth theory depend upon an earlier attack on inerrancy? | 1/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJanuary 2nd The Bible Geek Podcast | Why do some version of the Bible have God divide the nations in Deut. 32 according to the number of the "sons of Israel" instead of "the sons of El"? What is "scientism"? Contra R. Dawkins, does theology after all have a subject matter? What is it? OT ideas of the afterlife. What historical markers, if any, serve to anchor individual gospel stories in their actual time of origin? Can we know what NT writers meant when they referred to "angels" ("messengers")? What sort of nativity materials survive from neighboring cultures and religions? Why and how do smart fundamentalists compartmentalize their thinking when it comes to religion? | 1/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 31st The Bible Geek Podcast | Mustn't there have been an historical proponent of "Pauline" theology? Was there a James-Paul conflict? Are fundamentalists crazy to go back and find what they claim are predictions of the discovery of oil under he sand in Israel? Were the OT laws ever enforced? Does Mark really dialogue with the readers under the cloak of Jesus teaching his disciples? | 12/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 30th The Bible Geek Podcast | Evidence of evolving Christology in the NT. Was the Johannine Jesus a man of violence? Was Mark wrong about who was high priest in David's day? Did the Synoptic evangelists understand Jesus to be Yahve? Was the god Nehushtan the serpent of Eden? | 12/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 29th The Bible Geek Podcast | Holiness churches, Wesley and Pentecostalism. Sectarianism: a constant stream down Christian history? Importance of the Ugaritic texts for the OT. Baucis & Philemon in Acts 14. | 12/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 28th The Bible Geek Podcast | Does Margaret Barker reject the JEDP theory? Does Minimalism undermine it? Did OT people believe in an afterlife? How about other Canaanites? Did NT era Jews keep genealogical records? Does the Bible really teach eternal punishment? Counter-cultural self-congratulations of self-styled radical Christians and why they vilify America. How could the ancient rabbis have canonized a scripture filled with various viewpoints and philosophies? Rabbi Tovia Singer's claim that only the LXX Pentateuch was translated by Jews, the rest being the later work of Christians, and that "parthenos" did not mean exclusively "intact virgin." Did Jesus have to go to the bathroom? Mark Goodacre's argument that Luke knew but rejected Matthew's nativity story. | 12/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 24th The Bible Geek Podcast | Does the NT forbid premarital sex? Does the prohibition of women teaching come from authentic Pauline writings? What does "fornication" (porneia) mean in the NT? Which gospel's Jesus would you rather hang with? How do we know biblical "leprosy" was not Hansen's disease? When Romans 12 quotes Proverbs 25 on being kind to enemies so as to heap hot coals on their scalp, is it cunning and vindictive? Origin of glossolalia? Do the gospels differ over the date of the Last Supper? Babylonian influence on Genesis? When Romans quotes the God to King promises on 2 Samuel, and it promises chastisement for sin, is this a messianic prediction, in which case Jesus is being made a sinner? Are there other "historical" figures from the ostensible time of Jesus who are now considered mythical? | 12/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 23rd The Bible Geek Podcast | Hans Kueng. Contemporary Christian Music. The man born blind (John 9) a lesson about reincarnation? John 9:4 and 5 seem seriously out of sync with the story. | 12/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 21st The Bible Geek Podcast | Epistles vs Gospels: high vs. low Christology.If Jesus was a theophany of Jehovah, as Margaret Barker says, why are there nativity stories, making the theophany 30 years in duration? Easter story contradictions. What is unique in Christianity? What is the "God-shaped hole" we try to fill? How do we know what was absent from Marcion's NT texts? What is the evidence for dividing Isaiah between various authors? Where did Judaism derive monotheism? John 7 says some Jews expected Messiah to hail from Bethlehem, with others imagining he would burst on the scene with no known origin. Is there any scriptural basis for the latter? | 12/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 19th The Bible Geek Podcast | Was Asherah Yahve's wife? Do cultists have the right to be cultists? Might God, in Eden, have meant merely, "The day you eat of that fruit, your doom will be sealed"? Was Sodom real? Human sacrifice in the Bible. | 12/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 18th The Bible Geek Podcast | Are Cephas and Peter the dam apostle? Does the name "Simon Peter" represent a combination of 2 characters? Does "Elohim" imply the Trinity? Might Mark originally have featured nothing but narrative, and that scribes added Q sayings to it? In John 10:34, is Jesus compromising monotheism? Did the Qumran sect expect two messiahs? | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 14th The Bible Geek Podcast | Why, if you believe God heals, would you not seek a healer? Persecution of Christians by Jews: did it happen? How old is the story of the woman caught in adultery? Did Paul become a new savior? | 12/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 13th The Bible Geek Podcast | Isn't the Bible anti-homosexual? The 2 she-bears, Elisha, and Greek mythology. Why do evangelicals claim to believe faith in Jesus saves but actually demand assent to a creed as the criterion for salvation? Does the NT teach that Jesus takes us to Heaven, or that the redeemed shall live on a transformed Earth? Is Revelation written badly? | 12/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 10th The Bible Geek Podcast | Was John the Baptist Elijah, and why did he have to return? Political conservatism plus religious skepticism: strange bedfellows? "Ignosticism" versus "agnosticism." Could "Bar-Timaeus" refer to Plato's "Timaeus"? Indulgences and penance. | 12/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 9th The Bible Geek Podcast | Did David and Solomon exist? If God delayed the Parousia, as 2 Peter says, out of patience toward mankind, didn't it backfire? Wouldn't the result be the birth, death and damnation of many more millions than if Christ had returned according to plan--in the 1st century? What upset the Sanhedrin in Stephen's speech? Deifying Jesus? Or the idea of two gods in heaven? Exodus and archaeology. What is a good translation incorporating Nag Hammadi and Qumran discoveries? Female mourning effigies from ancient Philistia--any Bible connection? Was Jesus a Samaritan? | 12/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 8th The Bible Geek Podcast | Elisha and the 2 bears: Ursa Major and Minor? Yogi and Booboo? Reimarus: unjustly ignored? John the Baptist: Least in the Kingdom? Is Cephas the same as Peter? Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel: why is so much left out? So little explained? Does the Koran promise the saved white grapes or white-eyed virgins? Is Hegesippus the same as Josephus? Has Mark or another interpolated the resurrection prediction in the last Supper where it is otherwise ignored? Where did they get the names of Jesus' parents? In Mark 5, are we reading an account of a witch stealing the p***s of Jesus, as has actually been suggested? Who fled Gethseman naked? When was Joel written? | 12/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDecember 5th The Bible Geek Podcast (part 2) | Was the evangelist "Luke" a woman? Comments on Joseph Wheless's "Is It God's Word"? Is the virgin birth doctrine superfluous to Orthodox theology? | 12/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOctober 21st The Bible Geek Podcast | Evidence for Nazareth in Jesus' day? Eternal Security. Any book on the mental maze of apologetics? Improbabilities of the Flood & its aftermath "Hair" as a Hebrew euphemism for "p***s." Relative dates of D and P sources. | 10/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSeptember 13th The Bible Geek Podcast | Does Jesus predict that "this generation" or "this nation" will not pass away? Why the fuss revising and backpedaling from failed prophecies ascribed to Jesus if there was no Jesus to begin with? Did the commandment not to "take the Lords name in vain" intend any of the Christian inferences we hear from the pulpit? Where does it say Israel was defeated by Chemosh, an alien god? Does the name "Jesus Christ" imply a fictional charactrer like Superman? Why do Bart Ehrman and others stick so tenaciously to a historical Jesus? Why do apologists reject pagan parallels as "imprecise" yet accept prophetic fulfillments when there is no possible link between the Old and New Testament passages in question? If Jesus began as a god (attested in the Epistles), why do the Synoptics document a gradual ascent of a man to godhood? | 9/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 18th The Bible Geek Podcast | Did Passover really begin with Josiah? Can one reconcile Margaret Barker's theories with OT minimalism? What do I mean by "catholicizing"? Who was Barabbas? Was Jesus the Azazel Scapegoat? Does Hebrews want us to reject gospel basics or to build on them? | 5/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMay 13th The Bible Geek Podcast | More Preterist questions. Ezekiel's flying saucer. No Book of Mormon Geek? Evolution of the Eucharist. Pentecostal "Oneness" doctrine. | 5/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanApril 17th The Bible Geek Podcast | Aramaic-sounding saying--did Jesus say it? Trintarianism--did God die? Questions on the Gospel of Thomas. Was crucifixion automatically salvific, e.g., for Spartacus, too? Can the resurrection be discounted by general probabilities? Why would Jesus call for Elijah? What evidence says Psalm 2 referred to earthly kings? | 4/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMarch 27th The Bible Geek Podcast | Bible & astrology. James vs. Paul. Petrine Epistles inauthentic. Antiqua Mater. James D.G. Dunn. Sun gods in the Bible. | 3/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFebruary 18th The Bible Geek Podcast | Tower of Babel vs. Noah's clans. "Days" in Genesis One. God's commands for genocide: best argument against biblical theism? In allowing Babylon to overcome Judea was God reneging on his covenant? The Book of Jubilees. Where did Hell come from? | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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