In a recent Hyde Park encounter with Br. Muhammad Hijab, my friend and colleague, Joseph Jay Smith of Pfander, made some plainly absurd and false claims, among them: Claims that all the NT manuscripts are the same, which is demonstrably… Read More ›
History
Rabbi Ishmael on the sons of Ishmael
It is worth to mention that some Jewish classical exegetical text such as Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer פרקי דרבי אליעזר which is attributed to a first century jewish sage, a well known tannaite Rabbi Ishmael Eliezer ben Elisha who went by the title Kohen ha-Gadol /the great high priest contains… Read More ›
A Pre Modern Defense of the Hadiths on Sodomy
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Did Jesus Talk about Homosexuality?
An interesting article by Scot McKnight a distinguished American New Testament scholar and Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lombard, IL. Reblogged from his Jesus Creed. One is no longer surprised to read in discussions about same-sex relations —… Read More ›
The Pilgrim’s Bible
I have just spent a delightful evening with a neighbour in Southern France. He is an English antiquarian book collector and lives in a sumptuous residence (as you can see below). He showed me his 1608 edition of the Geneva Bible,… Read More ›
Historical Jesus studies and the illusion of consensus
Dale C. Allison is an American New Testament scholar, historian of Early Christianity, and Christian theologian who is currently Professor of New Testament Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary.
