Ben Witherington

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Changed

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"Changed. I say I'm changed. Ironing out one's deepest wrinkles Isn't strange." "Gone. Perhaps gone on. Those wan...
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Sunday, May 28, 2006

Obsolete Truth-- Truth in the Ruins

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İ have been pondering something for a while on this trip as İ have visited one archaeological site after another. Here we find facts, hard ...
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Friday, May 26, 2006

Turkish Delight

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So here I am ın Turkey mındıng my own business near the Syrian border and checking out Antioch and there ıt ıs-- the Davincı Code billboard...
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Thursday, May 18, 2006

Da Vinci Code-- the Movie: "So Dark the Con of Man"

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Ron Howard's two hour and 29 minute adaptation of Dan Brown's mega-selling thriller "The Da Vinci Code" has now hit the bi...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Da Vinci Code Movie Falls Flat-- the Early Returns

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Maybe Ronnie Howard has done us all a favor. The early pre-screening reviews of the critics are out--- and they are all negative. All of t...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Ossuary Rises from the Patina Dust-- the Latest Bombshell

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Hershel Shanks and BAR are now reporting that we have further, and perhaps definitive confirmation of the authenticity of the inscription on...
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Monday, May 15, 2006

Heads up on the Da Vinci Movie and an Hommage to the West Wing

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This is just to let all of you know that I have been granted an early viewing of the Da Vinci Code movie, and by Thursday night late I inten...
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Friday, May 12, 2006

Crunchy Conservatives?

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My Colleague Lawson Stone (prof. of OT at Asbury) shared the following with me. While some of this I would certainly disagree with, there i...
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Thursday, May 11, 2006

Dan Brown Comes Out of His Rabbit Hole

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Dan Brown has finally surfaced in front of a live audience. Granted it was an audience in Portsmouth New Hampshire near where he lives, and...
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Omar's Story-- The Tale of a Shiite Christian

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Omar Alrikabi is one of my students who has had a difficult journey living in the U.S. and has experienced a good deal of racism within and ...
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Sunday, May 07, 2006

The Poet Laureate and the Budding Poet

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Today, May 7th was a proud day for the Witherington clan. Our only son David graduated from the University of Kentucky today with a degree ...
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Saturday, May 06, 2006

Jesus on Thin Ice?

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Well its settled. We now know how Jesus managed to walk on water on the Sea of Galilee. It wasn't a miracle after all. Jesus was on thi...
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Friday, May 05, 2006

MI III--- Mission not so Believable

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"Suspend your disbelief" I kept telling myself. After all, this is supposed to be just 126 minutes of summer fun, and after all we...
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How Bad Theology can Kill You

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I make no claims about the historical veracity of the following story. I strongly suspect it is just a story, not a report of fact. It was ...
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Thursday, May 04, 2006

Commentary on Matthew is Now Out!

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Just to give you an FYI, my new Matthew commentary is now out. In it I have tried to present a consistent reading of this Gospel in light of...
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Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Hays vs. Ehrman on the Da Vinci Code--- the Debate

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On April 25th 2006 there was a dialogue on the Da Vinci Code and the issues, historical and theological it raises. The debate was held at th...
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Friday, April 28, 2006

'Akeelah and the Bee' gets an A

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Sometimes movies get it just right. This is one of those cases. It would be hard to imagine a better told family tale of overcoming obstac...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

What are we Doing Here? Christians in a Stange Land

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The following was an expository sermon delivered today 4/25/06 in Estes Chapel at Asbury Seminary by my esteemed colleague Dr. David Bauer, ...
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Monday, April 24, 2006

The Da Vinci Code Movie--- Are You Ready to Rumble?

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May 19th lurks just around the corner and I have just returned from yet another Da Vinci Code seminar, this one in Burlington, N.C. a town ...
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Thursday, April 20, 2006

Incandescence-- Light Shed through the Word

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Even before the expected time, my new book of sermons with Eerdmans, Incandescence has now come into print. This volume is a collaborative...
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