The Skeptics' Testament

Welcome to episode 16 of The Skeptics' Testament! This episode we take to some questions about the number and verse systems in our modern bibles, anachronisms in the Torah, Christian pacifism and the difference between Homer's Iliad and Luke's gospel, as well as our continued study of the gospels with Matthew!

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Hello and welcome to episode 15 of The Skeptics' Testament. This week we take to some more question! What is the Didache? The argument from silence pertaining to Jesus' historicity and what is one of the most genuine contradictions found in the bible?

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This episode wetake to some questions, did Justin Martyr know of the gospels? What exactly is "primitive" Christianity? and we also spend some time discussing The Gospel According to Luke. Enjoy!

Hello and welcome to episode 13 of The Skeptics' Testament. In this episode we continue our philosophical discussion between atheist philosopher Brandon Christen and Christian philosopher Tyler Vela. We touch on:

Divine Command Theory

Divine Attribute Theory

The Rebuff of Nihilism

The Price Tag of Rejecting Theistic Objective Moral Realism

Nihilism and Cognitive Dissonance

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Hello and welcome to episode 12 of The Skeptics' Testament! This episode we begin our study of Mark's gospel. I discuss some intereting features like the Messianic Secret and the use of dramatic irony, as well as a host of other interesting things about the gospel. Enjoy!

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Hello and welcome to episode 11 of The Skeptics’ Testament. This is an episode i recorded some time back with a former Jehovah's Witness, Paul Gundy. Paul does a remarkable job with his website jwfacts.com and should be applauded for his tireless effort in putting together what is really a tour de force of accurate JW, past and present, information and counter apologetics. Enjoy the show!

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Hello and welcome to episode 10 of The skeptics' Teatament! This episode is an extension of episode 9 in that we continue to deal with solutions to the Synoptic Problem. This week it is Q and the Farrer Theory. Here are some links and a bibliogrpahy, thanks to Mark Goodacre, to further reading:

Books and articles expounding the Farrer Hypothesis (priority of Mark; priority Matthew):

• John Drury, Luke (The J. B. Phillips' Commentaries, London & Glasgow: Collins, 1973) 
• John Drury, Tradition and Design in Luke's Gospel (London: Darton, Longman and Todd,1976)
• John Drury, The Parables in the Gospels: History and Allegory (London: SPCK, 1985)
• Morton Scott Enslin, Christian Beginnings (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1938; reprinted, Harper Torchbooks; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956) (quotations from this work are available here)
• A. M. Farrer, 'On Dispensing with Q' in D. E. Nineham (ed.), Studies in the Gospels: Essays in Memory of R. H. Lightfoot (Oxford: Blackwell, 1955), pp. 55-88 (available here).
• Eric Franklin, Luke: Interpreter of Paul, Critic of Matthew (JSNTSup, 92; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994)
• Mark Goodacre, Goulder and the Gospels: An Examination of a New Paradigm (JSNTSup, 133; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996)
• Mark Goodacre, The Synoptic Problem: A Way Through the Maze (The Biblical Seminar, 80; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press / Continuum, 2001)
• Mark Goodacre, The Case Against Q: Studies in Markan Priority and the Synoptic Problem (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002)
• Mark Goodacre, 'Fatigue in the Synoptics', NTS 44 (1998), pp. 45-58 (available here)
• Mark Goodacre, "A Monopoly on Marcan Priority? Fallacies at the Heart of Q", Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 2000 (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000), pp. 583-622 (reproduced here)
• Michael Goulder, Midrash and Lection in Matthew (London: SPCK, 1974)
• Michael Goulder, Luke: A New Paradigm (JSNTSup, 20; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1989)
• Michael Goulder, 'On Putting Q to the Test', NTS 24 (1978), pp. 218-24
• Michael Goulder, 'Farrer on Q', Theology 83 (1980), pp. 190-5
• Michael Goulder, 'The Order of a Crank' in C. M. Tuckett (ed.), Synoptic Studies: The Ampleforth Conferences of 1982 and 1983 (JSNTSup, 7; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1984), pp. 111- 30
• Michael Goulder, 'Luke's Knowledge of Matthew', in G. Strecker (ed.), Minor Agreements: Symposium Göttingen, 1991 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993), pp. 143-60
• Michael Goulder, 'Is Q a Juggernaut?', JBL 115 (1996), pp. 667-81 (Available to read here)
• Michael Goulder, 'Self Contradiction in the IQP, JBL 118 (1999), pp. 506-17
• H. B. Green, The Gospel According to Matthew (Oxford: Clarendon, 1975)
• H. B. Green, Matthew: Poet of the Beatitudes (JSNTSup, 203; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001)
• H. B. Green, 'The Credibility of Luke's Transformation of Matthew' in C. M. Tuckett (ed.), Synoptic Studies: The Ampleforth Conferences of 1982 and 1983 (JSNTSup, 7; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1984), pp. 131-56
• Edward C. Hobbs, 'A Quarter-Century Without "Q"', Perkins School of Theology Journal 33/4 (1980), pp. 10-19 (available to read here)
• Jonathan Knight, Luke's Gospel (New Testament Readings; London & New York: Routledge, 1998)
• James Hardy Ropes, The Synoptic Gospels (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1934; Second Impression with New Preface, London: Oxford University Press, 1960) (key quotations from this work available here)
• E. P. Sanders and M. Davies, Studying the Synoptic Gospels (London: SCM, 1989) (quotations from this work are available here)

Some of the most important attempts to defend the Q hypothesis against its critics

• David Catchpole, The Quest for Q (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993)
• F. Gerald Downing, 'Towards the Rehabilitation of Q', NTS 11 (1964), pp. 169-81
• F. Gerald Downing, 'A Paradigm Perplex: Luke, Matthew and Mark', NTS 38 (1992), pp. 15-36
• J. Fitzmyer, The Gospel According to Luke I-IX (Anchor Bible 28, New York: Doubleday, 1981)
• F. Neirynck, L'Evangile de Luc - The Gospel of Luke (BETL, 32; Louvain: Leuven University Press, 1989)
• F. Neirynck, Evangelica: Gospel Studies - Etudes d'évangile: Collected Essays (ed. F. Van Segbroeck; BETL 60, Louvain: Leuven University Press, 1982)
• F. Neirynck, Evangelica II. 1982-91: Collected Essays (ed. F. Van Segbroeck; BETL 99; Louvain: Leuven University Press, 1991)
• Frans Neirynck, 'Goulder and the Minor Agreements', ETL 73 (1997), pp. 84-93
• Mahlon H. Smith, The Canonical Status of Q (on-line article)
• Graham Stanton, A Gospel for a New People: Studies in Matthew (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1992)
• Christopher M. Tuckett, Q and the History of Early Christianity: Studies on Q (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1996)
• Christopher M. Tuckett, 'On the Relationship Between Matthew and Luke', NTS 30 (1984), pp. 130-42
• Christopher M. Tuckett (with a response by Michael D. Goulder), 'The Beatitudes: A Source-Critical Study', NovT 25 (1983), pp. 193-216

Hello and welcome to episode 9 of The Skeptics' Testament. On this episode i discuss the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke as well as what scholars call The Synoptic Problem, Markan Priority and Editorial Fatigue. Enjoy!

Hello and welcome to episode 8 of The Skeptics' Teatment. On this episode i take some listener questions on errors in The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, the origins and evolution of "hell" as well as the formation of the NT canon. Enjoy!

Hello and welcome to episode 7 of The Skeptics' Teatament Podcast. On this episode i discuss some of the biblical verses that seem to support an anti-homosexual position. I also discuss some of the biblical principles of child-sacrifice and what does Josephus really have to say about Jesus? Enjoy!