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The Lydia McGrew Podcast — 78 episodes
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