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Has Anything in the Gospels Changed Recently?

Jul 22, 2009 by Craig Blomberg | 13 Comments

The exchange is predictable.  I am talking with a friend who is not a fellow biblical scholar but they know I like to write books.  “So what’s your latest,” I’m asked.  “Well,” I reply, “I’ve just finished a revised edition of Jesus ... [More]

Translations Aren't THAT Different, but We Can Have Preferences

Jul 02, 2009 by Craig Blomberg | 16 Comments

Having spent my annual week last week with my fellow members of the NIV-TNIV Committee on Bible Translation, sifting through large stacks of proposals for minor tweaking of how we translate this or that word or phrase in anything from Genesis to Revelation, I’m in the mood for writing a blog ... [More]

When an Argument from Silence Becomes Utterly Meaningless

Jun 16, 2009 by Craig Blomberg | 6 Comments

Not long ago an unsolicited e-mail asked me to comment on a skeptic’s blogsite that had posted a list of about twenty “historians” from the Jewish, Greek or Roman worlds of around the time of Christ. Not one of them ever mentioned Jesus, the blogger pointed out. Surely that ... [More]

Archaeology and Idolatry

Jun 03, 2009 by Craig Blomberg | 2 Comments

“While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols.”  “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands” (Acts 17:16, 24). Last weekend ... [More]

The "All or Nothing" Syndrome with Biblical Imprecision

May 06, 2009 by Craig Blomberg | 14 Comments

In the late seventies' "battle for the Bible," pitting inerrantists against others with a high view of Scripture but who stopped just short of belief in inerrancy, a common argument featured "the slippery slope."  Give up inerrancy, it was alleged, and at first you may rest content with just ... [More]

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