A Christian Response by Stephen J. Bedard
William Foxwell Albright was a well respected archaeologist and biblical scholar of a few generations ago. Although his work is dated, it still holds great value. I recently re-read From the Stone Age to Christianity. If you are looking for the latest at where the Bible and archaeology intersects, this is not the book for … Read More “From the Stone Age to Christianity” »
One of the important authors for a number of areas regarding the Jesus Myth is Plutarch. Among other writings, he wrote a series of lives of Greek and Roman figures. There is a collection of these bound as the Greek Lives. In a way this is an artificial way of organizing them because Plutarch purposely … Read More “Plutarch: Greek Lives” »
The recent trend in historical Jesus studies is to look at the Jewish background of early Christianity. That is very important but it should not be done to the neglect of Greco-Roman world. One of the best books that I have come across in this area is The Religious Context of Early Christianity by Hans-Josef … Read More “The Religious Context of Early Christianity – Review” »
