Historical Criticism

What Does It Mean to Say a Narrative is Inspired Regardless of Historicity? (podcast)

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Narratives, declaratives, and historical imperatives. Greg considers the relationship between the narrative and history.  Episode 549 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0549.mp3

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Podcast: Does Historicity of Bible Stories Matter?

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Greg discusses his phenomenological-theological approach—or, HOW is the Bible inspired? Primarily through the narrative? Or primarily historically accuracy? http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0248.mp3

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Is the Bible History?

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Even though I argued for interpreting the final form of the biblical canon as opposed to using the history behind the text in my post yesterday, I am not endorsing the radical post-modern view that biblical texts…

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History and Bible: Do They Align?

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To begin, it is significant that when Jesus and the authors of the NT referred to their sacred writings as “God-breathed,” they were referring to the writings that had been handed down to them. So…

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A Review of a Review of Benefit of the Doubt

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I’d like to offer a brief response to a curious on-line review of Benefit of the Doubt,  published on thechristians.com. It’s titled, Which came first, Jesus or the Bible? A clever heretic draws a false…

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Drum Roll Please: Greg’s Final Critique of Bart Ehrman’s Article

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This is the ninth and final of several videos Greg put together to refute Bart Ehrman’s claims published in the article What Do We Really Know About Jesus? Thanks for hanging in there for this last one….

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Why Bart Ehrman Doesn’t Have to Ruin Your Christmas (Or Your Faith) Part 8

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This is the eighth of several videos Greg put together to refute Bart Ehrman’s claims published in the article What Do We Really Know About Jesus? In this segment, Greg gets into the nitty gritty of why…

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Why Bart Ehrman Doesn’t Have to Ruin Your Christmas (Or Your Faith) Part 7

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This is the seventh of several videos Greg put together to refute Bart Ehrman’s claims published in the article What Do We Really Know About Jesus? In this segment, Greg argues against Ehrman’s claim that the Roman…

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Why Bart Ehrman Doesn’t Have to Ruin Your Christmas (Or Your Faith) Part 6

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This is the sixth of several videos Greg put together to refute Bart Ehrman’s claims published in the article What Do We Really Know About Jesus? In this segment, Greg addresses the apparent discrepancies in the genealogies of Luke…

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Why Bart Ehrman Doesn’t Have to Ruin Your Christmas (Or Your Faith) Part 5

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This is the fifth of several videos Greg put together to refute Bart Ehrman’s claims published in the article What Do We Really Know About Jesus? In this segment, Greg points out that none of Bart’s material…

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Why Bart Ehrman Doesn’t Have to Ruin Your Christmas (Or Your Faith) Part 4

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This is the fourth of several videos Greg put together to refute Bart Ehrman’s claims published in the article What Do We Really Know About Jesus? We hope you’re enjoying these! They really provide a great overall…

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Why Bart Ehrman Doesn’t Have to Ruin Your Christmas (Or Your Faith) Part 3

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This is the third of several videos Greg put together to refute Bart Ehrman’s claims published in the article What Do We Really Know About Jesus? If you missed the first two installments you can find them…

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Why Bart Ehrman Doesn’t Have to Ruin Your Christmas (Or Your Faith) Part 2

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This is the second of several videos Greg put together to refute Bart Ehrman’s claims published in the article What Do We Really Know About Jesus? If you missed it, you can catch the first installment here.

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Video Q&A: Faith and the Historical Jesus

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Greg is trying something new in order to answer more of your questions. He’s going to be taping himself addressing your questions with no polish of any kind: raw and unedited. You’ll notice in this…

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