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Authorship of the Pastoral Epistles: What does it mean?

Παῦλος ἀπόστολος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ … Why can’t we simply trust that the person mentioned as the author of the Pastoral Epistles is indeed their author? With the advent of historical and literary criticism...

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Who would you choose? The scholars showdown: Part 1

If you had to chose between a book by Carson or Moo who would it be? What if it were a choice between Wright and one of his adversaries or Fee and another NT Scholar? Over the next week or so, each day...

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Authorship of the Pastoral Epistles: Does it matter?

Brian LePort asks, in response to a post by Daniel Kirk, whether the Pastorals should have been canonized if they are not Pauline? My immediate response is yes but I do believe that God was at work...

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A Wednesday afternoon with Ben Witherington…

I took some time out this afternoon to work on my critical review of Ben Witherington’s “Indelible Image Volume One: The Individual Witnesses“. The more I engage with this text the more challenged I am...

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The New Testament According to Tom…

A few weeks back someone pointed out to me that <a href=”New Testament for Everyone “>N.T. Wright’s translation of the New Testament had not as yet been released in the United States. I purchased...

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The Epistles: a thought…

It is a curious thing that each and every one of the Epistles is pastoral in nature. Each one is concerned with helping a community of believers follow Jesus and live faithfully as the people of God....

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Pauline Authorship

James mentioned it and then Dave Black chimed in on this graph of scholars and Pauline Authorship: Sadly, it seems, Dave is one of the very few scholars who holds to Pauline authorship of Hebrews. You...

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Good Grief! Pastoral reflections on grief and loss…

We don’t talk a whole lot any more about the last days. When I first became a Christian in the 90’s churches were often filled with end-times charts and end end-time preachers with big sticks or...

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