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Alleged Seams in John Part 9: Chapter 20-21

Alleged Seams in John Part 8: A truly silly argument from silence

Alleged Seams in John Part 7: No one is asking where Jesus is going?

Alleged Seams in John Part 6: John 14:30-31 "Arise, let us go."

Alleged Seams in John Part 5: Mary of Bethany

Alleged seams in John Part 4: Should John 5 come right before John 7?

Alleged Seams in John Part 3: "The other side" of the Sea of Galilee

Alleged seams in John part 2: "Into the Judean land"

Alleged Seams in the Gospel of John 1

Multiple Attestation Tumbling Down

Explicitness is Evidential

Jesus' Historical Teaching = Data

The apostles' distinction between their interpretations and Jesus' teachings

Can Carson Be Co-opted?

Licona's Views on John are shared by all the kool kids?

Getting Geisler Right

False Caution

3 Principles for Max Data and Contradictions

Are "apologetic" sections in the resurrection stories suspicious?

Arguments From Silence: The Chances and Changes of This Mortal Life

Arguments From Silence: The Randomness of Saliency

Arguments From Silence And Bad Analogies

Editorial fatigue, Probably Not 6

Editorial fatigue, Probably Not 5

Editorial Fatigue, Probably Not 4

Editorial fatigue, Probably Not 3

Editorial fatigue, Probably Not 2

Editorial Fatigue, Probably Not 1

Do the Majority of Critical Scholars Acknowledge Markan Authorship?

Do Critical Scholars Make a Surprising Admission About John?

A Max Data Easter: A maximalist approach to the appearance to James

Undesigned Coincidences in Secular History: Where's Paoli?

Undesigned Coincidences in Secular History: Druid Park Spring Water

Undesigned Coincidences in Secular History: The prothonotary warbler

The Strange Minimalist Use of Liberal Scholar Norman Perrin

Name statistics argument 14: Josephus

Name statistics argument 13: List of the 12 as a "source"?

Name statistics argument 12: Can the argument be (Macca)beaten?

Name statistics 11: Macdonald Doublets as an explanation of accurate name statistics?

Name Statistics Argument 10: Narratively Unnecessary Qualifiers

Name statistics argument 9: Judas Not Iscariot and Joseph Barsabbas (Justus)

Name statistics argument 8: The disambiguation of "Jesus" and "Lazarus"

Name Statistics Argument 7: Disambiguation and Unnecessary Clumps

Name statistics 6: Rare names from the Gospels, Ilan, and chance

Name statistics argument 5: The Gospels statistics are no better than chance?

Name statistics argument 4: Artificial people?

Name Statistics Argument 3: Some effects of mutilating the sample

Name Statistics Argument 2: Mutilating the Sample

Name Statistics Argument 1: What's it all about?

Undesigned Coincidences: "Do you love me more than these [love me]?"

Undesigned Coincidences: Parable of the vineyard 2

Undesigned coincidences: Parable of the vineyard 1

Undesigned Coincidences: "To his servants"

Undesigned coincidences and evidence of independence: Destroy this Temple

Undesigned Coincidences: Bloody Sunday and internal evidence of independent testimony

Undesigned coincidences: What kind of independence?

Can you refute undesigned coincidences? Dirk Bogarde and Bergen-Belsen

Does Acts Support the Trilemma 5: Stephen and other final data points

Does Acts Support the Trilemma 4: The Persecution Ramps Up

Does Acts Support the Trilemma 3: The Arrest of Peter and John and Its Aftermath

Does Acts Support the Trilemma 2: Matthias and Peter's Pentecost Sermon

Does Acts Support the Trilemma? Part 1

Development Theories of the Gospels are All Bunk 8: John's Use of the Phrase "the Jews"

Gospel Development Theories Are All Bunk 7: Do the chief priests crucify Jesus in John?

Development Theories of the Gospels are all Bunk 6: Increasing Antisemitism?

Development Theories of the Gospels are All Bunk 5: This episode should have been first!

Development Theories of the Gospels are All Bunk 4: Do the resurrection stories get more developed?

Development Theories of the Gospels Are All Bunk 3: The Misuse of Mark and the Resurrection

Development Theories of the Gospels are All Bunk 2: More on the Passion

Development Theories Are All Bunk 1: Cherry Picking Jesus' passion

Rejection at Nazareth 3: "Couldn't" vs. "didn't" do many miracles

Rejection at Nazareth 2: "There You Go Again!"

Rejection at Nazareth 1: A prophet without honor in his home town

Bias against multiple similar events in the Gospels: Not an anti-supernatural issue

Does holism create a worldview impasse with the skeptic?

Religious context: The trilemma, specific miracles, prophecy

Religious context: How does it help?

Religious context: Is it important that the Jesus Seminar says Jesus healed a blind man?

Three temptations in pain

Do Secular Historians Talk About Source Reliability? Woodman and Kraus

Source Reliability: It's the Denominator!

Easter reading 4: "That will be a merry meeting!"

Easter reading 3: Thomas Howard, Christ the Tiger

Easter reading 2: John Updike, "Seven Stanzas at Easter"

Easter Reading 1 on the importance of the bodily resurrection: St. Paul

Disconcerting Post-Resurrection Jesus

The Apostleship of Paul: Can we do without the Gospels and Acts?

Gospel Authorship and Reliability: Be Careful What You Grant

Obvious vs. unobvious acts of God: Are Miracles Confined to "Salvation History"?

The epistemology of obvious and unobvious miracles

Explaining Casualness: Truth vs. Common Knowledge

Testimonies to the Truth: Why You Can Trust the Gospels

Casualness in action: Archelaus and Matthew

Casualness, independence, and undesigned coincidences: A Gospel example

Casualness, independence, and undesigned coincidences: A modern example

Independence and New Testament Studies

Harmonization in Action: Luke's central section: Does Jesus do a loop-de-loop?

Harmonization in action: More on Luke's central section

Harmonization in Action: The central section of Luke

Strauss vs. Harmonization: Is Harmonization outdated?