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May 2022

May 04, 2022
This book is by Jonathan Bernier (PhD, McMaster University) assistant professor of New Testament at...

February 2022

February 25, 2022
This is the front cover of my new book that is now available on amazon.com....

July 2020

July 30, 2020
I just discovered an eleven-year old Goodreads book review by Sarah Sammis that I believe...

October 2019

October 27, 2019
In this month's issue of Review of Biblical Literature, Donald D. Binder reviews Jordan J....
October 26, 2019
Dr. Larry Hurtado--a leading New Testament scholar, professor at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and...
October 30, 2017
The Gospel of John contains a motif about Jesus that nearly all scholars claim is...
October 04, 2017
Dr. Ron Iliffe, Oxford professor of History of Science, has written an important book published...

September 2017

September 21, 2017
  James (Jimmy) D. G. Dunn is a Methodist, a moderate Evangelical, a distinguished New...

July 2017

July 02, 2017
I just finished reading Gunther Bornkamm's classic book, Jesus of Nazareth (orig. Ger. ed 1956;...

June 2017

June 30, 2017
This post is a very brief review of two books whose titles begin, Orthodoxy and...

May 2017

May 07, 2017
In Part 1, we saw that Lee Strobel begins his mega-selling book, The Case for...

April 2017

April 17, 2017
Dale C. Allison Jr. is the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton...

January 2017

January 27, 2017
Lee Strobel is a 64-year old, very successful, apologist author of books on Christian faith....

December 2016

December 04, 2016
Author: Murray J. Harris Title: The Seven Sayings of Jesus on the Cross: Their Circumstances...

September 2016

September 26, 2016
Josh McDowell is an evangelical Christian, a public evangelist, and an apologist. For decades, he...

August 2016

August 20, 2016
Dr. J. Richard Middleton is professor of Biblical Worldview and Exegesis at Northeastern Seminary in...

May 2016

May 06, 2016
Harvey Cox was a professor of the history of religion and philosophy at Harvard University...

April 2016

April 12, 2016
(All scriptures references are taken from the New Revised Standard Version.) Ben Witherington III is...

February 2016

February 22, 2016
My friend Dr. Dale Tuggy is a Christian philosophy professor at State University of New...

October 2015

October 20, 2015
Author: Andy Angel Title: Angels: Ancient Whisper of Another World Publisher: Cascade Books, an Imprint...

May 2015

May 09, 2015
Geza Vermes (1924-2013) was a British, Jewish scholar born in Hungary who lost his parents...

March 2015

March 22, 2015
During the past few weeks, I posted a three-part review that I wrote of Dr....

February 2015

February 27, 2015
So far in this review, I have been quite critical of Dr. Ehrman’s book, How...
February 12, 2015
(All scriptures are from the NRSV unless otherwise noted.) The foundation of Christianity is the...

January 2015

January 17, 2015
Author: Bart D. Ehrman, professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of...

December 2014

December 11, 2014
I recently read James D.G. Dunn’s book entitled Jesus and the Spirit: A Study of...

September 2014

September 23, 2014
Title: Angels of Light, Powers of Darkness: Thinking Biblically About Angels, Satan & Principalities Author:...
September 13, 2013
James D.G. Dunn authored the important and accessible book, Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?: The...

April 2013

April 18, 2013
A buyer of my RJC book just now emailed me saying, "I have been advised...
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