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A Peculiar Abolishment: Slavery in the New Testament (Pt. 1)
The photo appended to this post is of an ancient Roman slave collar. It would have been worn by a slave and identified, among other things, who was their master. This particular collar follows that formula and has written on it the following: "I have run away; hold...
“Words Like Nonsense”: The Women, Testimony, and The Empty Tomb Pt. 8
In this final post to our investigation into the women at the empty tomb, we will look at two rebuttals to the challenges raised to our historical argument from the last post. After offering a rebuttal to both of those arguments, we will conclude with inferring the...
“Words Like Nonsense”: The Women, Testimony, and The Empty Tomb Pt. 7
Over the last couple of posts we have been assessing the relevant historical sources from near the time of Jesus in order to answer the questions of how a woman's testimony was viewed in the first-century world. In this, our penultimate post on the topic, we will...
“Words Like Nonsense”: The Women, Testimony, and The Empty Tomb Pt. 6
In our survey of the Greco-Roman world we have seen that there are many later sources that would give us some indication of how the testimony of women would have been viewed. We have noted that some of these sources are later than the time of Jesus, so they may not...
“Words Like Nonsense”: The Women, Testimony, and The Empty Tomb Pt. 5
In the last post we looked at some of the New Testament evidence to assess the trustworthiness of a woman's testimony in the ancient world. The evidence in the New Testament pointed to a general distrust of the witness of women, but in this post we will broaden the...
“Words Like Nonsense”: The Women, Testimony, and The Empty Tomb Pt. 4
The last post surveyed the alleged discrepancies between the empty tomb narratives and provided a coherent reason for accepting the differences as the particular eye-witness testimony of the named women in the Synoptics, and that John's Gospel is simply highlighting...
“Words Like Nonsense”: The Women, Testimony, and The Empty Tomb Pt. 3
At the end of the last post we asked whether the corroboration in details between the empty tomb narratives are simply superficial. The question posed is whether there are not more discrepancies between the accounts that would count against the narratives as...
“Words Like Nonsense”: The Women, Testimony, and The Empty Tomb Pt. 2
The last post laid out the map for our discussion on the historical nature of the empty tomb. We considered the fact that there is skepticism from some circles towards the narratives for the empty tomb, but that there are also some good reasons — namely the discovery...
