The Bible Geek Show
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The Bible Geek Show
Dr. Robert M. Price answers questions submitted to him at criticus@aol.com
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-018
If the sodomites did not want to rape the two angels, then why did Lot have to offer up his daughters?
What is your opinion of the Testa...
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-017
God tells the serpent he will slither. The assumption is that he lost his legs. The Bible doesn't say how he got around before. So was it was a winged...
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-016
Are there 2 competing versions of Israel crossing over the /red vSea?
Does the Bible teach the Trinity?
Are the 12 disciples...
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-015
Why should we think Bultmann's "Ecclesiastical Redactor" was Polycarp of Smyrna?
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-014
Why do so many people describe the serpent from the Garden of Eden as the Devil?
When did people begin to differentiate "religion" from "philos...
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-013
Do any scholars understand Jesus to have been a philosopher like Socrates?
What do you know about Watchman Nee, Witness Lee, and "The Loc...
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-011
Discussion of more of Paul George's fifty-eight items of evidence that Christianity arose late in the first century and probably as a result of the fi...
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-012
Discussion of more of Paul George's fifty-eight items of evidence that Christianity arose late in the first century and probably as a result of the fi...
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-010
Why do the gospels refer simply "Caiaphas" instead of the full name Joseph ben Caiaphas?
If we ended up with Paul's Christology then why...
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-009
I Septuagint Daniel was translated in the 3rd century BCE, mustn't the predictions of the Hasmonean revolt of 165 have been actual predictive propheci...
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-008
I was reading Isaiah 43 and came across this passage concerning the return of the exiles from Babylon sounds a lot like Exodus with the safe passage t...
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-007
Where in your own scholarship do you think you insert yourself--your personality, your religious beliefs, your ethics, your political beliefs, your wo...
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-006
I'm curious whether any of your opinions on Biblical or Christian history going from a more rare or fringe view toward a more mainstream or conservati...
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-005
What exactly does Orthodox Christianity understand is happening at the crucifixion regarding the incarnation and death of the Son of God? How can a ti...
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-004
It seems one of the main reasons Christianity was initially attractive was the promise of eternal life. And certainly, going to heaven was always the...
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-003
THE EARLY DATING AND AUTHORSHIP OF THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS:
If you find that the swoon theory is not a “far fetched” theory, why don’t you promote...
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-002
What would Friedrich Nietzsche think of the comic book character Superman?
I would like to know if you think the New Testament outlines a clear...
The Bible Geek Podcast 23-001
Why is it that the officially sanctioned oracular devices such as the Ephod (Urim and Thummim) are considered acceptable means to discern truth, while...
The Bible Geek Podcast 22-017
I know you think that the criterion of embarrassment is not a valid argument for the historicity of Jesus since what is embarrassing for one generatio...
The Bible Geek Podcast 22-016
Do you think there are any passages in the "Pauline" epistles that look like they might be written by Simon Magus?
What do you make of Va...
The Bible Geek Podcast 22-015
Is the passage in Revelation 11:7-12 about the 2 witnesses somehow related to the Passion and Resurrection narratives of the gospels?
Ho...
The Bible Geek Podcast 22-014
Bible Geek Holiday Special
Dr. Price reads a sermon about the 1947 movie "Miracle on 34th Street" titled "He Really is Santa Claus"
The Bible Geek Podcast 22-013
Who are Gog and Magog?
It seems like angels have been largely written out of the script for fundamentalists. Is that your experience? Do...
The Bible Geek Podcast 22-012
Could you explain the story of Oedipus Rex as a religious figure, who had all the "signs and trappings of a deity" (Alan Dundes)
I think...
The Bible Geek Podcast 22-011
Do you know if the term "beyond time and space" began to be used to describe God after Einstein's theories were proven?
In the Pistis So...
The Bible Geek Podcast 22-009
Birger Pearson argues for a Jewish pre-Christian origin for Gnosticism, but Bart Ehrman says that view is passé. Why do you agree with Pearson?
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-008
In Geza Vermes's Jesus the Jew he says many scholars reject his understanding of Jesus as a Galilean charismatic sage like Honi or Hanina ben Dosa, as...
The Bible Geek Podcast 22-007
Tell us about Bruno Bauer.
Do you know whether anyone has made a serious, well researched argument to change the BCE/CE dating scheme to...
The Bible Geek Podcast 22-006
Mark has the crowd hail “the kingdom of our father that is coming,” while Matthew has “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord.” Is it p...
The Bible Geek Podcast 22-005
James D.G. Dunn (Unity and Diversity in the New Testament) says that the Ebionite gospel omitted Matthew’s Nativity story because they were adoptionis...
The Bible Geek Podcast 22-004
Can you pontificate a bit on the various schools of thought on dating New Testament literature and the Apostolic Fathers?
Is there a tra...
The Bible Geek Podcast 22-003
The crucifixion story in all four gospels had to have been based on Josephus’ story of rescuing a friend from crucifixion. All four gospels were writt...
The Bible Geek Podcast 22-002
Why do people continue to set dates for the Rapture when they’ve all fallen through?
Perhaps the Bible mentions 2 different arks of the...
The Bible Geek Podcast 22-001
Did early Christians associate the trumpets of Rosh Hashanah, the New Year festival, with the Last Trumpet of the Rapture?
What do you t...
The Bible Geek Podcast 21-020
In a Gospel about, and supposedly written by, Nicodemus why would it not state that he assisted with the burial?
I was wondering what e...
The Bible Geek Podcast 21-019
In which gnostic work can one find the myth of the sacrifice of the primal man of light, whose shattered divine sparks give life to the whole creation...
The Bible Geek Podcast 21-018
How does Adoptionism fit into the evolution of historic Christology?
My question is about the range of meanings that adelphoi can take....
The Bible Geek Podcast 21-017
In Acts 1:13-14 “certain women” are mentioned alongside the disciples. Who were they?
Was it intentional that Mark has a stand-in appear...
The Bible Geek Podcast 21-016
Assuming that Luke and Matthew we copying large parts of Mark, and that books were extraordinarily rare, what kind of people were Luke and Matthew? We...