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"Whoever Looks at a Woman With Lust": Misinterpreted Bible Passages #1

August 20, 2009 · 519 comments

"Judge not, lest you be judged": Misinterpreted Bible Passages #3

September 1, 2009 · 311 comments

"One will be taken, one will be left": Misinterpreted Bible Passages #8

May 20, 2011 · 262 comments

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Reading the New Testament Within Judaism (Part II)

September 16, 2025 · 0 comments

Enoch Seminar: Reading Paul Within Judaism?

June 10, 2025 · 0 comments

"The Art of Gentle Reading: Reading Scripture with C.S. Lewis"

May 29, 2025 · 0 comments

"Sin, the Law and Redemption in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"

May 17, 2025 · 0 comments

Early Judaism

The 'Within Judaism' Perspective - Virtual Enoch Conference

January 8, 2025 · 0 comments

Early Judaism

Paul and the Resurrection of Israel to Be Published by Cambridge University Press

August 11, 2022 · 6 comments

My Harvard Theological Review Article on the Potter and Clay in Romans 9 Now Available

April 1, 2022 · 6 comments

The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism: Typos and Errata

July 8, 2021 · 0 comments

Article on Potter/Clay Imagery in Romans to Be Published in Harvard Theological Review

September 4, 2020 · 1 comment

Bruce Metzger and Plagiarism - Literary Forgeries Edition

April 7, 2020 · 0 comments

Cambridge University Press to Publish The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism

February 18, 2020 · 2 comments

"Rise, Kill, and Eat" Article on Acts 10 Accepted to JSNT

January 27, 2019 · 3 comments

Panel Discussion and World Premiere of the The Story of God with Morgan Freeman

March 22, 2016 · 6 comments

"'Lord LORD: Jesus as YHWH in Matthew and Luke" Article Accepted to NTS

August 6, 2015 · 30 comments

Review of Raw Revelation by Mark Roncace

August 3, 2015 · 3 comments

New Article Published: "Altered Because of Transgressions? The 'Law of Deeds' in Gal 3,19a"

January 31, 2015 · 6 comments

Unity and Diversity - Categorizing Decentralized Common Identity

December 18, 2014 · 1 comment

Big Names in Biblical Studies: On Precise Ngrams and Search Engine Syntax

August 21, 2014 · 3 comments

Article on Galatians 3:19a Accepted to ZNW

July 1, 2014 · 3 comments

Hobby Lobby Ruling No Surprise, Highlights Real Solutions

July 1, 2014 · 0 comments

Biblical Illiteracy Rears Its Head in Phil Robertson Flap

December 22, 2013 · 9 comments

Guest Lecture on Pauline Ethics (Audio)

October 28, 2013 · 3 comments

Update on our House Fire

October 28, 2013 · 3 comments

Gary Manning's Response to "Zealot" by Reza Aslan

August 6, 2013 · 1 comment

Stephen Prothero's Book Review of Reza Aslan's ‘Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth’

August 5, 2013 · 0 comments

Rethinking the $3,000 Missions Trip | This Is Our City | Christianity Today

August 5, 2013 · 2 comments

Employment Update: Demon Deacon Edition

March 9, 2013 · 3 comments

Huge News from Science: Human Desires Are Not Moral

March 4, 2013 · 6 comments

FSU Pre-Spring Roster Analysis

February 19, 2013 · 0 comments

Chalkboard Article: FSU 17, NCSU 16

October 15, 2012 · 0 comments

Maurice Casey on Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism in Kittel's Theological Dictionary of the New Testament

August 7, 2012 · 9 comments

Supreme Court Rules Obamacare Constitutional

June 28, 2012 · 2 comments

Throat Surgery Tomorrow

June 20, 2012 · 1 comment

Free Loeb Classical Library Volumes!

June 13, 2012 · 1 comment

Stick Man Jonah More Unprecedented Than Previously Realized

May 1, 2012 · 12 comments

Jacobovici and Team Don't Understand Religious Studies, Don't Do Their Research

April 30, 2012 · 8 comments

Talpiot Tomb B: On Connected and Unconnected Lines

April 24, 2012 · 5 comments

Major Problems with the SBL Paper Submission System

April 22, 2012 · 3 comments

Inception: A Grief Observed

April 7, 2012 · 1 comment

The New Talpiot Tomb: An Observation on the Patio Tomb and Resurrection

March 6, 2012 · 28 comments

"Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin"?

March 1, 2012 · 2 comments

Automated Assessment for Introduction to New Testament

January 29, 2012 · 3 comments

Does Bible Reading Make People More Liberal?

October 16, 2011 · 2 comments

Teaching the Synoptic Problem after the Synoptic Gospels

September 5, 2011 · 11 comments

The New Perspective on Paul, Ethnocentrism, and Judaism

August 9, 2011 · 18 comments

Sociology

Platonism, Gowalla, and the Digital World

July 24, 2011 · 2 comments

Benchmarks for Macbook Air and Mac Mini 2011

July 21, 2011 · 2 comments

Has Multiculturalism Failed?

July 7, 2011 · 8 comments

Article on Spanking: Several Errors from ABC News

July 4, 2011 · 7 comments

My JBL Article on "All Israel will be saved" in Rom 11:25-27 is Now Available

July 1, 2011 · 24 comments

New Testament

Getting Grace Backwards

June 9, 2011 · 35 comments

Seth Sanders: We Need to Account for the Literature of the Little Guys

June 4, 2011 · 0 comments

Paul Never Says "by Faith Alone": A Pauline Studies Pet Peeve

June 3, 2011 · 91 comments

Sarah Palin's "Fire in her belly" is Not Dominionist Code

June 1, 2011 · 2 comments

When Prophecy Fails: Camping's Failed Rapture Prediction Another Study Opportunity

May 20, 2011 · 1 comment

"One will be taken, one will be left": Misinterpreted Bible Passages #8

May 20, 2011 · 262 comments

All that Tithing is Apparently Not Working...

May 18, 2011 · 4 comments

Massive Leak to AP Reveals Details of Osama Bin Laden Raid

May 17, 2011 · 0 comments

Embarrassing Tech Ignorance from CNN ... Again

May 16, 2011 · 0 comments

Notes on the QBs in the 2011 NFL Draft

April 29, 2011 · 1 comment

Links on David Wilkerson

April 28, 2011 · 1 comment

Experimental Approaches to Achieve Common Core State Standards

April 27, 2011 · 2 comments

David Wilkerson Has Entered His Rest

April 27, 2011 · 8 comments

"Father, remove this cup from me" - Jesus' Flesh Cries Out

April 23, 2011 · 8 comments

Granderson - "Don't Let Ignorant People Vote"

April 13, 2011 · 1 comment

Ancient Hebrew Poetry - Remembering Abraham Joshua Heschel

April 5, 2011 · 0 comments

Seminaries Headed to the Cemetery?

March 30, 2011 · 0 comments

Why Climate Change Rhetoric Fails with Evangelicals

March 27, 2011 · 2 comments

Lies in the Bible? Ehrman and the Intentional Fallacy

March 26, 2011 · 0 comments

CNN: Religion 'will be driven toward extinction' in 9 countries, experts predict

March 24, 2011 · 0 comments

Two Religions, One Hysteria: Climate Change Preachers and Rapture Watchers in Unison

March 23, 2011 · 6 comments

"Paul, a 'Slave' or 'Bondslave'"? Misinterpreted Bible Passages #7

March 20, 2011 · 98 comments

“Sabbath” or “Week”? When Words Mean More Than One Thing

March 17, 2011 · 31 comments

My JRF Review of the Voyage of the Dawn Treader

March 10, 2011 · 2 comments

Sex is Cheap: Regnerus on Why Men Have the Upper Hand in the Bedroom

March 10, 2011 · 0 comments

Best Rewards Credit Cards Plan 2011

February 23, 2011 · 0 comments

George Müller on Money and Giving

February 21, 2011 · 18 comments

Mindmapping Software for My Dissertation

February 15, 2011 · 2 comments

Bonhoeffer on How the Church Can Act towards the State

February 7, 2011 · 10 comments

CCM Praise Songs We Have Trouble With Meme

February 4, 2011 · 7 comments

A Civil War Between the Church and the Gay Community? Part 3

January 31, 2011 · 8 comments

A Civil War Between the Church and the Gay Community? Part 2

January 23, 2011 · 8 comments

A Civil War Between the Church and the Gay Community? Part 1

January 21, 2011 · 12 comments

Alternet: What Happened When Fundamentalist Christians Tried to “Cure” Me of Homosexuality

January 20, 2011 · 1 comment

Brief thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 17, 2011 · 1 comment

Typing two spaces after a period is WRONG (and reflections on correction)

January 16, 2011 · 14 comments

Why Paul Went West

January 15, 2011 · 5 comments

Looking ahead to 2011

January 10, 2011 · 2 comments

Daniel Kirk on the "Not Exactly Deacons" of Acts 6

January 8, 2011 · 2 comments

Children and Santa Claus – Lying or Harmless Fun?

December 25, 2010 · 6 comments

Jesus Was not Born In a Stable and Other Christmas-Related Details

December 24, 2010 · 4 comments

Participation Grades

December 21, 2010 · 0 comments

Polyglot Meme

December 16, 2010 · 1 comment

Was Joseph Suspicious of Mary’s Pregnancy?

December 15, 2010 · 9 comments

Thoughts on the New Student Policies for the SBL Annual Meeting

December 10, 2010 · 5 comments

ABD

December 9, 2010 · 2 comments

“Inception” Review Now Posted

December 4, 2010 · 2 comments

On to SBL 2010, Presentation on Monday

November 18, 2010 · 3 comments

NIV Update 2011 - "Flesh" and Other Translation Issues

November 14, 2010 · 3 comments

NCAA Football Picks 2010 - Week 11

November 13, 2010 · 0 comments

NCAA Football Picks 2010 - Week 10

November 6, 2010 · 0 comments

NCAA Football Picks 2010 – Week 9

October 30, 2010 · 0 comments

NCAA Football Picks 2010 – Week 8

October 23, 2010 · 0 comments

Soundbite Culture, Christine O’Donnell, and the First Amendment

October 20, 2010 · 3 comments

Sociology

Hopes for Mac OS X 10.7

October 20, 2010 · 1 comment

“The Social Network” and Mark Zuckerberg

October 18, 2010 · 0 comments

NCAA Football Picks 2010 - Week 7

October 16, 2010 · 0 comments

Frank Aquila: Repatriate Foreign-Source Income for a Real Stimulus (without additional deficits)

October 14, 2010 · 0 comments

Goodacre on Matthew's "Orthodox Redaction of Mark"

October 13, 2010 · 1 comment

UCSB Physics Professor: "Global Warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life"

October 13, 2010 · 2 comments

A Few Notes on Matthew and Luke from My Students

October 11, 2010 · 2 comments

NCAA Football Picks 2010 - Week 6

October 9, 2010 · 0 comments

92% of US Children Have an Online Presence by Age 2

October 6, 2010 · 0 comments

NCAA Football Picks 2010 - Week 5

October 2, 2010 · 0 comments

What Did Jesus Preach?

September 29, 2010 · 8 comments

NCAA Football Picks 2010 - Week 3

September 18, 2010 · 0 comments

Prosperity and Lack of Motivation

September 18, 2010 · 2 comments

Female Reporters in Men's Locker Rooms

September 14, 2010 · 7 comments

NCAA Football Picks 2010 - Week 2

September 11, 2010 · 0 comments

Want Good Study Habits? Don't Count on Traditional Advice

September 10, 2010 · 0 comments

CNN (and John Acuff): How Christians Spoil Sex

September 8, 2010 · 2 comments

Getting Married Today...

August 15, 2010 · 3 comments

Why Avoiding "Liberal" Universities, Departments, and Faculty Is Misguided

August 10, 2010 · 7 comments

This Just In: Language Shapes the Way We Think

July 28, 2010 · 0 comments

Disappearing Middle Class in the USA

July 27, 2010 · 2 comments

Preparing for a Wedding, Teaching, and Exams Equals a Busy Time

July 21, 2010 · 2 comments

Review of Ectaco C-Pen 20 Handheld Pen Scanner

July 14, 2010 · 7 comments

Jesus, the Tribulation, and the End of the Exile by Brant Pitre

June 8, 2010 · 3 comments

Want to Be a Good Reader of the Bible?

June 2, 2010 · 0 comments

BAR "Secret Mark" Handwriting Analysis Unimpressive

May 28, 2010 · 19 comments

Sandmel on Cross-Fertilization and the SBL

May 26, 2010 · 1 comment

Resources on the Bible and Homosexuality

May 18, 2010 · 0 comments

Dowry and Bride Price Are Not the Same Thing

May 5, 2010 · 62 comments

Backwards Thinking of the Day: Pinellas Schools Reconsider Black Student Discipline

May 3, 2010 · 2 comments

Bad Science: Spanking Kids Leads to More Aggressive Behavior—Or Does It?

May 2, 2010 · 16 comments

BBC: “The Virginity Industry”—Some Backward Cultures Still Advocate Virginal Marriage!

May 2, 2010 · 1 comment

A Bald Man, Two Bears, and Forty-two "Children": Misinterpreted Bible Passages #6

May 1, 2010 · 221 comments

Blog Migrated, Upgraded, Fixed (No More Blank WordPress Admin Pages!)

April 28, 2010 · 0 comments

"But We Love You!": Good Motives Do Not Guarantee Right Actions

April 15, 2010 · 5 comments

Political Values and Religion: American Jews and “Anti-Israel” Policies

April 11, 2010 · 3 comments

Sociology

A Great Example of Biased Reporting

April 1, 2010 · 3 comments

Paper Accepted for Synoptic Gospels Section at 2010 SBL

March 27, 2010 · 1 comment

Romans 11:25–26 Article Accepted by JBL

March 21, 2010 · 1 comment

I'm Engaged!

March 14, 2010 · 7 comments

Must-read on Myron Rolle

February 25, 2010 · 0 comments

“Flesh” is not “Human effort” in Gal 3:3

February 19, 2010 · 2 comments

Sources on Tetragrammaton in LXX and First-century?

February 17, 2010 · 10 comments

Sports and Christianity: How Should Christians Handle Competition?

February 6, 2010 · 13 comments

New Book Release: "And God Said" by Joel Hoffman

February 5, 2010 · 1 comment

Why the iPad is a Game-changer

January 29, 2010 · 0 comments

A Few Thoughts on “Avatar”

January 25, 2010 · 7 comments

Interview with Richard Hays of Duke University

January 17, 2010 · 0 comments

Brett Favre isn't indecisive; he's just selfish

January 17, 2010 · 0 comments

Great Interview with Craig Keener by Nijay Gupta

January 15, 2010 · 0 comments

Interview about ESPN Report on the FSU Academic Scandal

January 13, 2010 · 0 comments

A Busy Christmas Break ...

January 13, 2010 · 1 comment

Support the Ebenezer Haiti Mission after the Earthquake

January 13, 2010 · 1 comment

Introverts Unite!

December 27, 2009 · 6 comments

Urban Meyer Resigns from Florida

December 26, 2009 · 0 comments

Not Everyone Leaving Churches is Leaving the Church

December 17, 2009 · 3 comments

Evangelicals, Scholarship, and Discrimination

December 12, 2009 · 0 comments

NCAA Football Picks for Week 14 (2009)

December 5, 2009 · 0 comments

White Skill Players: The New Black Quarterbacks?

December 3, 2009 · 1 comment

Apparently I broke the Top 50 Biblioblogs

December 2, 2009 · 4 comments

NCAA Football Picks for Week 13

November 27, 2009 · 2 comments

Conservative or Liberal? Why Biblioblogs Should Not be Labeled

November 24, 2009 · 9 comments

SBL Annual Meeting 2009 Highlights

November 24, 2009 · 2 comments

NCAA Football Picks for Week 12

November 21, 2009 · 0 comments

Belichick's 4th Down Decision and Biblical Studies

November 18, 2009 · 0 comments

The Case for Early Marriage: Regnerus on the Evangelical Dilemma

November 17, 2009 · 8 comments

NCAA Football Picks for Week 11

November 14, 2009 · 0 comments

Dispensational Eschatology and Politics

November 14, 2009 · 0 comments

Bobby Bowden Postgame and Remembering Coaches' Humanity

November 13, 2009 · 0 comments

Flyleaf “Memento Mori” Song by Song Review

November 9, 2009 · 5 comments

NCAA Football Picks for Week 10

November 7, 2009 · 0 comments

Tweeting SBL

November 3, 2009 · 0 comments

Moving from Blogger to WordPress Without Breaking Links or Losing Rank

November 1, 2009 · 2 comments

NCAA Football Picks for Week 9

October 29, 2009 · 0 comments

Football Picks for 10/24/09

October 24, 2009 · 0 comments

Paul's Conversion or Paul's Call?

October 21, 2009 · 12 comments

Intellectual Flexibility and Resistance to Unorthodox Ideas in Football, Life, and Religion

October 21, 2009 · 0 comments

Children's Bible Translations: Thoughts

October 20, 2009 · 2 comments

Early Christianity

Eschatological Views Among the Church Fathers

October 19, 2009 · 6 comments

Football Picks for Week of 10/17/09

October 15, 2009 · 0 comments

New Testament

The Length of Jesus' Ministry and Daniel 9

October 14, 2009 · 47 comments

Football Predictions 10/10/09

October 10, 2009 · 0 comments

The Decline of the Dollar and other Economic News

October 9, 2009 · 0 comments

A Brief Report on the Ehrman-D’Souza Debate

October 9, 2009 · 1 comment

Liberals Aren’t the Only Ones Who Tweak the Text

October 9, 2009 · 0 comments

Football Predictions for 10/03/09

October 3, 2009 · 0 comments

Great post on Evangelical polarization between social action and evangelism

October 1, 2009 · 0 comments

Old Testament

"Honor your father and mother": Mate selection as a test case

September 28, 2009 · 2 comments

Football Predictions for 9/26/09

September 26, 2009 · 0 comments

"Blank Slates" and Poor English Equal Bad Translation

September 22, 2009 · 1 comment

Repost: My NoleDigest FSU-BYU Preview

September 21, 2009 · 0 comments

Michael Jordan shows his true colors

September 18, 2009 · 0 comments

Reading the Bible On Its Own Terms

September 17, 2009 · 2 comments

Assorted Interesting Articles

September 17, 2009 · 0 comments

The New Christian Right is Global

September 17, 2009 · 0 comments

Translation: "Meaning" is more than just the "message"

September 16, 2009 · 1 comment

"The Signs of the Times": Misinterpreted Bible Passages #5

September 16, 2009 · 14 comments

"Lost in a World Without Courtship"

September 16, 2009 · 1 comment

Ten Astounding Facts and Figures: A Reality Check for Believers and Atheists

September 15, 2009 · 0 comments

"That day will come like a thief": Misinterpreted Bible Passages #4

September 10, 2009 · 46 comments

"We'll Meet Again": My Post-Miami Noledigest.com Article

September 9, 2009 · 1 comment

Old Testament

The role of theology in Bible translation, part 1

September 8, 2009 · 0 comments

Best article I’ve read on health care reform yet

September 8, 2009 · 0 comments

A Few Pre-Game Thoughts and Why I Think FSU Beats Miami

September 7, 2009 · 0 comments

Sunday Reflections on Saturday's Football Games

September 6, 2009 · 0 comments

Closed-minded America and Changing Minds

September 5, 2009 · 0 comments

Douglas Campbell's Deliverance of God is (finally!) Available

September 4, 2009 · 1 comment

SBL Formats for Bookends

September 3, 2009 · 19 comments

New Testament

The "Sinful Nature" Translation Dilemma and the Upcoming NIV Revision

September 3, 2009 · 48 comments

Computer Algorithm to Decypher Ancient Manuscripts?

September 2, 2009 · 0 comments

"Judge not, lest you be judged": Misinterpreted Bible Passages #3

September 1, 2009 · 311 comments

We're a Culture of Liars

August 28, 2009 · 0 comments

A few musings on social media

August 27, 2009 · 0 comments

Why Twitter is an Adult Phenomenon

August 26, 2009 · 0 comments

Goodacre on our ignorance of the “Historical Jesus”

August 25, 2009 · 0 comments

Shouldn't college composition classes teach, um, composition?

August 25, 2009 · 0 comments

Song by song review of the new Skillet album “Awake”

August 22, 2009 · 2 comments

"Pearly Gates" and "Streets of Gold": Misinterpreted Bible Passages #2

August 21, 2009 · 83 comments

"Whoever Looks at a Woman With Lust": Misinterpreted Bible Passages #1

August 20, 2009 · 519 comments

40 times and Olympic/World Class Speed

August 20, 2009 · 6 comments

More Health Care Musings

August 20, 2009 · 1 comment

Misinterpreted Bible Passages Series: Introduction

August 17, 2009 · 22 comments

New Feedburner Address

August 17, 2009 · 0 comments

An Evangelical Dilemma: Wait for Sex AND Wait to Marry?

August 9, 2009 · 47 comments

“The Real Paul” article at PBS.org

August 6, 2009 · 4 comments

Health Care Reform Musings

August 5, 2009 · 0 comments

APA Condemns "reparative therapy" for Sexual Orientation

August 5, 2009 · 0 comments

Splitting Into Two Blogs

July 29, 2009 · 1 comment

The Five Frustrating Books Meme

July 9, 2009 · 5 comments

Pope calls for a “Global Authority” for worldwide economy

July 8, 2009 · 0 comments

Review of Atlanta Fest 2009

June 23, 2009 · 2 comments

Defining Sexual Orientation: An Unnecessary Exercise in Futility

June 12, 2009 · 3 comments

Naomi Wolf explains how pornography is robbing a generation of the joys of the real thing

June 12, 2009 · 2 comments

Mothers Who Talk More About Feelings Have More Unruly and Disrespectful Children

May 21, 2009 · 1 comment

More “God Talk” from Stanley Fish

May 20, 2009 · 0 comments

Articles I’ve been reading lately

May 12, 2009 · 0 comments

Romans 2 Paper Accepted for SBL Annual Meeting in New Orleans

April 7, 2009 · 3 comments

Forbes article on Andy Beal

April 4, 2009 · 0 comments

Global Currency to Take Place of the Dollar

April 2, 2009 · 1 comment

“Scoring points with the clock stopped”

March 8, 2009 · 0 comments

Steve Forbes Criticizes Obama for Repeating Bush's Mistakes

March 6, 2009 · 0 comments

Church Shopping and Consumer Religion

March 3, 2009 · 5 comments

After six years of research and three years of work, it is finished

March 2, 2009 · 0 comments

Is Paying with Cash Costing You Money?

August 18, 2008 · 1 comment

Initial Review of “The Dark Knight”

July 17, 2008 · 0 comments

Predictably disappointed by the movie version of Prince Caspian

May 17, 2008 · 0 comments

Prince Caspian is coming out in March. I’m dreading it.

January 10, 2008 · 0 comments

My Last Concussion: How A Complete Idiot Ruined My Night

November 13, 2006 · 0 comments