May 28, 2009

I felt it would be helpful to many to comment on the inclusion of very minority readings in the new SBLGNT that was released recently. Specifically, I addressed Bart Ehrman’s two favorite texts, Mark 1:41 and the “angry Jesus,” and Hebrews 2:9, “apart from God.” The SBLGNT includes both barely supported variants in the main text, going against pretty much

For personal reasons I had to move the Thursday evening edition of the DL to Friday morning, 11am. See you then!

I wasn’t going to spend nearly the entire program reviewing the Ham/Nye debate, but that’s what I ended up doing.  In the process we figured out the best analogy for Nye’s attitude toward Kentuckians: that of Riker to the Pakleds on Star Trek the Next Generation!  We even played a clip for those who are not familiar with that, uh,

   We will try to do a DL from London today at 1pm MST (8pm here in London!). Join us then!