This week’s recommendations:
5. Michael Kok, Summarizing Arguments For and Against Q; Does Luke Know Matthew’s Additions to Mark?; Did Luke Know Matthew’s Special Traditions?
4. Mark Goodacre, NT Pod 69: What is the Criterion of Dissimilarity?; NT Pod 70: What is the Criterion of “Views Common to Friends and Foes”? (podcasts)
3. Shellie Matthews w. John Shuck, Acts of the Apostles: Taming the Tongues of Fire (radio interview)
2. Daniel Boyin via Michael Bird, No “Judaism” in the Ancient World? (video)
1. Steve Chalke, Restoring Confidence in the Bible
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Have you seen Steve Holmes’ response to Chalke’s article? Well worth a read.
I haven’t, but thanks for pointing it out.
Thanks Brian for the links!
The Daniel Boyin via Michael Bird bit was interesting. I agree that ‘Judaism’ as a monolithic term for a religion is anachronistic. I know, Boyin isn’t quite saying that, but its certainly a valid interpretation on his point, yet I’m not sure we can go the extreme Boyin is going (there seems to be a movement in modern day Jews to deny outright Israel as an ethnicity, and as a historical fact).
Even if 2nd temple’s ‘Judaism’ was more a collection of practices than a monolithic religion that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a pre-exile religion. Complexity within these collection of practices also doesn’t mean some particular sect’s practices were not residual from a religion of the past. Boyin is pointing out, if anything, that our understanding of 2nd temple Judiaism must be something more than the veneer we are getting from N. T. Wright and E. P. Saunders.
It must be contextualized by Rome’s war with the Partians, and Judah’s loss of influence to the Idumeans. Each sect must be taken according to its own terms and in-light of the relationship to particular politics and ethnographies.
That said, Daniel Boyin continues to impress.
@Mike: You’re welcome!