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Consensus, Bullying, and Social Pressure in Gospels Studies

The Paradox of Improbable Evidence

Competing models of the Gospels: Why is the confirmation of details so helpful to reportage?

When are details suspicious?

Independence and the case of Mr. Jones

What model of the Gospels is confirmed by undesigned coincidences?

Unexplained allusions: The little ladder at Civitella

Unnecessary details: The raincoat at Civitella

A very very unnecessary detail: "She was Estonian"

The grass is only sometimes greener!

Bayes, Skeptics, and the Resurrection 9

Bayes, Skeptics, and the Resurrection 8

Bayes, Skeptics, and the Resurrection 7

Bayes, Skeptics, and the Resurrection 6

Bayes, Skeptics, and the Resurrection 5

Bayes, Skeptics, and the Resurrection 4

Bayes, Skeptics, and the Resurrection 3

Bayes, Skeptics, and the Resurrection 2

Bayes, Skeptics, and the Resurrection 1

Authorship of John, Part 10: Hand waving about emphasis

Authorship of John, Part 11: Who was at the Last Supper?

Authorship of John, Part 9: Could the son of Zebedee have witnessed the Passion?

Authorship of John, Part 8: "Known to the high priest"

Authorship of John, Part 7: What's the point of a disambiguator that doesn't work?

Authorship of John, Part 6: Irenaeus and "the apostle" who wrote the Gospel

Authorship of John, Part 5: Muratorian Canon

Authorship of John, Part 4: Irenaeus and Ptolemy the Gnostic

Authorship of John, Part 3: Papias?

Merry Christmas! The Word Was Made Flesh

Authorship of John Part 2: Our Earliest Evidence

Authorship of John Part 1: Introduction

Examining Dale Allison's Arguments for "the appearance to the twelve"

Bereavement Apparitions 6: Not everybody can see him!

Bereavement Apparitions 5: Not with a bang but a whimper

Bereavement Apparitions 4: Polymodality and eating

Bereavement Apparitions 3: Does not approach, cannot be followed

Bereavement Apparitions 2: Appear only for a few seconds

Bereavement Apparitions 1: How long does Jesus speak?

Is this ancient novel realistic??

Okay, what about SOME kind of group experience?

"No, not THOSE group appearances!"

Are "vast majority" claims defined and documented?

Unstated Gospel Symbolism: Fudge factors!

Unstated Gospel Symbolism: And this is also too easy!

Unstated Gospel symbolism: It's too easy!

Unstated symbolism vs. memoir reportage

Misunderstandings of Liberal Scholars 6: Dale Allison and the conversion of James

Misunderstandings of Liberal Scholars 5: Does Habermas misrepresent Ehrman? Yes and No

Misunderstandings of Liberal Scholars 4: The Jesus Seminar shows respect for John 20:19-23??

Misunderstandings of Liberal Scholars 3: Trunk and branches dependence

Misunderstandings of Liberal Scholars 2: Jesus Seminar Group Appearance Lists

Misunderstandings of Liberal Scholars 2: Jesus Seminar Group Appearance Lists

Misunderstandings of Liberal Scholars 1: Bad tone warning

Gospel Development Theories Are All Bunk: Engagement with Pharisees 7

Gospel Development Theories Are All Bunk: Engagement With Pharisees 6

Gospel Development Theories are All Bunk: Engagement With Pharisees 5

Gospel Development Theories Are All Bunk: Engagement with Pharisees 4

Gospel Development Theories are all Bunk: Engagement with Pharisaism 3

Gospel Development Theories Are All Bunk: "Engagement with Pharisaism" 2

Gospel Development Theories are All Bunk: "Engagement with Pharisaism" 1

Matthean Discourses 5: Yep, sometimes Jesus just repeats himself!

Matthean Discourses 4: Jesus teaching the same thing twice in one gospel!

Matthean Discourses 3: Mountain vs Plain

Easter 2025: Where did the women see an angel?

Matthean Discourses 2: Why Pit Luke Against Matthew?

Matthean Discourses 1: What is a composite discourse, and why should you care?

Tolkien, Sanderson, World-building, and the Gospels

History, the Gospel of Peter, and Jesus' Crucifixion

Bart Ehrman Cherry Picks on the Raising of Lazarus

Bayes, Partitions, and the Resurrection

If you're an evidentialist, what's the point of church?

Is the evidence in a Max Data case a burden?

Literary Theories vs. Common Sense Errancy

Poor Methodology in Non-Biblical interpretation: Pelling's weak argument

Deceptions Are Not Devices 2: Josephus' propaganda and the Repentant Thief

Deceptions Are Not Devices: Lucian's trolling

Discrepancy Hunting in Non-Biblical Literature: Couldn't Sallust just have made a mistake?

Discrepancy Hunting in Non-Biblical History: Why Couldn't Plutarch Just Make a Mistake?

Bad Methodology: Discrepancy Hunting in Non-biblical History

Don't Do a priori history!

Virgin Birth and Resurrection: No epistemological mystery

The Rigid Rule of Deliberateness

Rigid Scholars Mock Harmonization

Rigidity, Gateway Drugs, and Jairus

The Rigid Rule of All-or-nothing Factual Independence

The Rigid Rule of First Impressions

Rigid critical scholars: Is there a contradiction about Jesus' words on the cross?

Three Meanings of Meaning