Episodes
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-098
11-7-2008. Based on your recommendation, my bible of choice is the NASB. I turn to it for reading any biblical books that are not in your Pre-Nicene New Testament, or in Richard E. Friedman's The Bible with Sources Revealed. It's a good bible, but of course, misses out some of the fun books like...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-096
11-7-2008. I am greatly interested in learning about the origins of Christianity. I have begun to read Edwin Johnson's Antiqua Mater. I found my curiosity piqued regarding matters of biblical historicity. First, I am wondering if there have been any major new historical developments or...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-097
11-7-2008. I have been a fan of the role-playing game Vampire the Masquerade for many years. My interest has turned to the background of Lilith. She is portrayed as the mate and equal of Adam, and later as the lover of God, or Jehovah, as they call him. I'm interested in knowing more about her.…
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-093
10-29-2008. Searching on Google I've found it difficult to find philosophically rigorous evaluations of Thomas Aquinas' Five Ways that aren't obviously guilty of either arguing against a straw man or suffering from legitimate charges of misinterpretation. I'm aware of Kenny's work, and excerpts...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-094
10-29-2008. Jesus Absconditus. Why did Jesus spend so little time on earth after he rose from the dead? Is there some reason he had to get back to heaven? Seems like it would have been better if he'd have hung around for a few years to prove to all the skeptics without a doubt that he really had...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-095
10-29-2008. Dr. Price, I have recently started listening to your show, and enjoyed the lecture on Darwin, Kant, etc. that you did as part of the Modern Theology series. As I was checking this webpage out I noticed that you have published commentaries for at least one of your other lecture series....
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-090
10-15-2008. I read that gospels = biography in Richard A. Burridge's What are the Gospels? A Comparison with Greco-Roman Biography (2004). Since the ancients could write fictional biographies of historical people, but never biographies of fictional people, his conclusion is: JC is historical....
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-091
10-15-2008. If we assume that 1 Corinthians 15:3 is an interpolation (I agree), what historical evidence do we have that the Christ appeared not only to Paul but to others as well? What do you make of the reference at the end of Romans that Paul had relatives that became Christians before he did?
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-092
10-29-2008. Hi Dr. Price. I am interested to find out more about possible Zoroastrian influence on Judaism after the Exile, and also the influence of later Greek thought on Judaism. Are there any books on these types of influence? I have come across Gregory Riley's The River of God, but I would...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-089
10-15-2008. In Galatians 1:11-17, we read that Paul received his gospel directly from JC through revelation. We never read from Paul that the pillars disagreed his doctrines. That he and the pillars were in total agreement seems too much of a coincidence. Is Paul stretching the story? I have the...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-087
10-15-2008. A couple of times in 1 Samuel, there is a story that seeks to explain the popular phrase, "Is Saul also among the prophets?" (1 Samuel 10:11 and 19:23), but I am not sure when people would use the original phrase. Unlike "He's a mighty hunter like Nimrod," this one leaves me clueless!
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-088
10-15-2008. Dr. Price, what are your thoughts on the recent discovery of a cup with an inscription referring to a "Christ" as a magician?
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-084
10-8-2008. We waited until 8:30 pm Eastern for Dr. Bob to show up, but he never came online, so there was no questions answered this week. Cheers, Ricco
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-085
10-9-2008. Hello. Since I sent the short note yesterday, explaining there was no Q&A yesterday, because I had not heard from Bob, I wanted to let you know that it just slipped his mind, and there is no problem. Cheers! Ricco
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-086
10-15-2008. I was interested in your thoughts on how religion could play out in the future. That is, as something that doesn't leave society, but that adherents no longer wear on their sleeves, like a hobby. I am having a hard time seeing how Christians would get passed the "hell" thing. Bob...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-082
10-1-2008. Your geekiness, What is the relationship between Islam and moon worship? I've heard that Allah was a moon god.Is Islam a fusion of pagan moon worship and Judaeo-Christian types of ideas?
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-083
10-1-2008. Dear Dr. Price, Jews, Christians and Muslims interpret the story of Sodom and Gomorrah differently, in terms of the degree to which each reads the story as a castigation of homsexuality. In the various iterations, just what exactly was it that the mob was intending to do with, or to…
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-080
10-1-2008. Please comment on Richard Burridge, 2004, What are the gospels? A comparison with Greco-Roman biography, 2nd edition, Eerdmans. Any example of biography of mythical or non-historical persons?
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-081
10-1-2008. Bob, you have mentioned the role that ancient novels, classic tragedy and the Old Testament played in the formation of the New Testament narratives. Do you think there is any role for horror stories, especially in the formation of some of the apocalypses? I know of at least one person,...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-079
10-1-2008. Bible Geek opening monologue for 10/1/2008
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-077
9-24-2008. I read that the name Jesus is just the Greek version of Joshua -- which means "Yahweh Saves," or "Saviour." Are there any theories out there (crazy or not so crazy!) that link Jesus Christ with Joshua, Son of Nun? Do people see any connection between them?
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-078
9-24-2008. From what I understand Marcion's gospel was a form of Luke -- and Luke was based on Mark. However, it seems that Mark and Marcion are very different -- Mark is very Jewish, or at least very scriptural in that almost all of the elements within it can be traced to old testament passages....
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-076
9-24-2008. Dr. Price, I was hoping to get your interpretation of Mark 14:51-52, the famous scene of the young man and the linen cloth. I know that several scholars, including your colleague John Dominic Crossan, have paired this section with the "Secret Gospel of Mark". In your article, "Second...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-074
9-24-2008. Bob's opening monologue for the 9/24/08 "Ask the Bible Geek" show, where Dr. Robert M. Price answers questions posed on TheBibleGeek.org site.
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-075
9-24-2008. I was reading a post elsewhere and someone was asking if others had more information on the Cathar. This is a new early Christian group to me. I've heard of other groups, like the Gnostics, Essenes, Nazarenes, Docetists, and the like, but I have no information except what Webster's...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-073
9-24-2008. Can a sound case for interpolation of Gal 1:18-2:1 be made? Marcion's version of Galatians lacked 1:18-24 and the word "again" (Greek: palin). Tertullian and others claimed Marcion stripped out what he did not like. Can it be that Marcion had the original and the early Catholics…
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-072
9-24-2008. Dr. Robert M. Price answers questions from visitors to TheBibleGeek.org
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-070
9-17-2008. Hi everybody, I'm interested in the bible as a layman / hobbyist, so forgive any of my noob questions in advance : ) My question for today is, How did the Isreali's end up as Egyptian slaves in the first place? It just seems that Moses was called to lead them out, but I'm curious as to...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-068
9-17-2008. Your Geekiness, In a lecture you gave for FreeThought Fort Wayne concerning your book "Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms", you gave some of your thoughts on some of the New Atheist writers, like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens. Do you have any...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-069
9-17-2008. Dr. Price, I've been listening through old Bible Geek episodes (in reverse order--your books are being progressively unwritten!), and on many occasions you talk about how Jesus' promise to return gets progressively "hedged" as the original followers of Jesus died off, and this explains...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-067
9-17-2008. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son. I'm afraid I don't know the proper reference. But I'm confused. Since right after his death, Jesus went back to his fathers side, or was his father, what exactly was given? I don't see what the sacrifice was. I'm enjoying catching…
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-066
9-17-2008. This is a preemptize question I am asking with the hope that it will be answered about the time you are covering Islam in you world religion lectures. What is your take on Karl-Heinz Ohlig arguement that Muhummad was a Christological title and not the name of a historical person?…
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-065
9-10-2008. Bob's intro for the 9/10 Ask The Bible Geek show, where he answers questions posted on http://TheBibleGeek.org forum
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-064
9-10-2008. Is it true that there is a consensus amongst historians that there was a historical Jesus? Secondly Michael Grant has said that the Jesus Myth position has been refuted again and again by scholars. Do you know of any materials that present these refutations? Thank you.
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-063
9-10-2008. Dear Dr. Price: One topic that I never saw well-addressed in any harmonization account of the Gospels was the varying reports provided by Mary Magdalene, in Luke and John. To wit (NASB): Luke 21 : 4 While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men suddenly stood near them in...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-062
9-10-2008. I remember, during an Infidel guy podcast, hearing you talk about the "Book of the generations of Adam" genealogy in Genesis 5 and its direct parallel to some list of Sumerian or Akkadian or Babylonian kings; but since then I have not been able to remember in which episode you talked...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-061
9-10-2008. Bob you mentioned the other night a forthcoming talk you are going to give on pre-Christian savior. Who are some of the figure or are you talking about Isis, Bacchus, Mithra, Ashtar the Awesome, Baal,etc. Or was there a a general cult of the Savior that did not care about the specifics...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-060
9-10-2008. Are there any plans to (re)publish Hermann Detering's article The Falsified Paul in the new JOHC as I can't find a back issue available and a hard copy version is much easier to read and refer back to. Thanks.
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-059
9-10-2008. Bob, In World Religion lecture #7 you mention that you believe Judaism may have originally been like Zoroastrianism with an evil deity created the unkosher foods animals. If this is the case does it explain the charge that John the Baptizer had a demon in Luke 7, since John would be...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-058
9-3-2008. Bob's opening monologue for the September 3 show where Dr. Price answers questions submitted on http://TheBibleGeek.org
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-057
9-3-2008. Hi Dr. Price There's a stone tablet with Hebrew inscriptions in the news this week that may have an impact on the Historical Jesus debate. The story is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/middleeast/06stone.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=messiah&st=cse&oref=slogin In summary, it's an...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-056
9-3-2008. Hi! I'm a humble Amphibian-American living in the Northwest. Having grown up Jewish (and you wouldn't believe how hard it is for a frog to keep Kosher) and hanging out with Chassids I have at least a passing acquaintance with my Tribe's odder tradition. I don't have enough Hebrew or...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-055
9-3-2008. Bob, In Mark 2:14 Levi the son of Alphaeus is mentioned, then in Mark 3:18 a character named James or Jacob, son of Alphaeus is named one of the twelve. Are they suppose to be brother or the same person or what? In Matthews redactions of the naming of the twelve (Matthew 10:2-4)…
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-054
9-3-2008. As you may already know the Codex Sinaiticus will be released online for the first time. Here is the story: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gzdZYondd-Jlqw-ziW9W3qmSSeUwD922E3300 http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/ What is the significance of this? Love the show keep it up!
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-053
9-3-2008. I was reading Acts around 4:15-18 when I noticed that events are being described that, presumably, no Christian was present to record for the purpose of including in the Bible. It is obvious that to the overall nature of Bible writing is that of an omniscient narrator. But this case is...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-052
9-3-2008. Hi Dr. Price, I have been a fan of yours for a long time now and I have always loved your approach to your work... getting to the point, I was wondering if you could make any suggestions toward an M.A. Thesis on the Apocryphal Acts, whether sources, ideas, or if there is an area that…
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-051
8-27-2008. It seems to me there are two contradictory ways of debunking the New Testament and believe me it needs debunking. 1. This is the emphasis on the Jewish Christians who ran the early church, were dispersed after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, and eventually were considered heretics…
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-050
8-27-2008. Good day Professor, and I thank you in advance for your time. I have not yet read your book "The Pre-Nicene New Testament," but I am engaged in a discussion regarding what you purportedly said in regards to Romans 1.3 & 1.4. The person I am discussing this with has quoted you as saying...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-049
8-27-2008. I was doing a show when someone brought up the 'artifacts' discovered by Ron Wyatt- the nurse archeologist. While it is very easy to dismiss his findings, I must ask about the inscriptions themselves? Have the Israelite saga graffiti been debunked, refuted and falsified? Should we add...
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The Bible Geek Podcast Archive 08-048
8-27-2008. Tacitus in his work The Annals says this: "Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus..." source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Jesus How legitimate is this...