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June 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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- My partner loves thrift stores and estate sales, and I keep myself chained to the books and DVDs section
- good university presses will have listings or catalogues of interesting stuff
- mentions on Wikipedia or r/askhistorians (or r/AcademicBiblical if you're FREAKY)
May 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
thirdthoughts.bsky.social
I was assuming from what little of the Zohar ive read (mostly Mott's primer). Apparently we don't know for sure,but many have argued the conceptual similarities are striking. Found a link to a decent primer on r/AcademicBiblical.
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December 2, 2024 at 12:34 AM
pistondeveloper.bsky.social
Some time ago, people in the /r/academicbiblical subreddit tried to summarize the evidence for Jesus' historicity. I went through it and noticed that the most seemingly reliable part was not accepted by scholars that believe early Roman ended in chapter 14, e.g. Markus Vinzent has doubts about it.
May 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
darrylayo.bsky.social
this is anti intellectualism.

“All evidence and scholarship points to one culprit. That, to me, is suspicious. I am launching a new investigation. Bring me evidence to undermine what two thousand years of scholarship has agreed upon.”

You are RFK, in a nutshell.
r/AcademicBiblical u/Ichinghexagram • 4d Any reliable theories that 666 (the number of the beast) does not refer to Nero, and refers to someone else in the 1st century? Discussion I find it suspicious that biblical scholarship only considers 666 (or 616) to refer to Emperor Nero and doesn't seem to consider any alternatives. I think it refers to someone else in the first century. Please don't reply with evidence on why it refers to Nero, the proposed evidence has been discussed plenty of times. 2 • 16.
June 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
michaelhawkes.bsky.social
Pesach in Egypt ⇄ Pesach in Jerusalem. A new article by Dr. Hillel Mali for TheTorah online magazine.

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Pesach in Egypt ⇄ Pesach in Jerusalem - TheTorah.com
Exodus instructs each family in Egypt to slaughter a paschal lamb and eat it at home, while Deuteronomy commands a community ritual, to take place at the central worship location, i.e., the Jerusalem ...
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April 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Post over at AcademicBiblical in Pharaoh's name in the Bible and in ancient Egyptian literature

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May 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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@rurouniphoenix.bsky.social You were asking about this the other day. And honestly I’m not sure! Just asked /r/AcademicBiblical about this too.
December 8, 2024 at 6:08 PM
wiled.bsky.social
There was a poster on r/academicbiblical, which of course attracts a lot of people with pet theories that stay for varying lengths of time, who constantly hinted at but never quite fully laid out a theory that Jesus was a garbled metaphor of the life of a Nabatean king, so you know. Maybe.
September 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
troensridder.bsky.social
r/AcademicBiblical seems pretty alright
December 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
dennll.bsky.social
In #Acts15, the Jerusalem Council agrees that Gentiles do not need #circumcision. So why, in the very next verses ( #Acts16 :1-3), does Paul have Timothy circumcised, not b/c his mom is a Jew, but b/c his father is a "Greek," typically equated to "Gentile"? 1/2
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October 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
eumaeus.bsky.social
Hello. If you use Reddit (if you don't, why on earth, not!), then you might well find your answer in the r/academicbiblical. Additionally, reach out Dr. Andrew Henry on YT - religion for breakfast. Good luck.
December 25, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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European antisemitism traces all the way to the Greek & Roman antisemitism concentrated in the New Testament, which contains anti-Jewish polemics that perform mental gymnatics blaming the Jews for Jesus’ death

This was a ticking time bomb.

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December 23, 2024 at 6:18 PM
ilisabat.bsky.social
Here's a good thread on it in /r/AcademicBiblical
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May 1, 2024 at 2:26 AM
pistondeveloper.bsky.social
This was my response:

I forgot to add the link to the previous thread, so it was removed by the mods. Waiting for reinstating my comment.
I wrote about the evidence we have from Paul's epistles here: https://github.com/advancedresearch/the_century_of_satire/blob/main/pauls-epistles.md (this is based on an earlier thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicBiblical/comments/mna9ea/an_update_on_dating_pauls_letters_without_acts/) The Mythicist position is not unreasonable, if you look at the evidence about Paul's epistles in isolation from Tacitus and Josephus. However, considering that Jesus Christ is very influenced by Simon Magus in the 2nd century, which was not seen as crucified or a rebel leader against the Roman empire, I think it is consistent, when both Tacitus and Josephus seem to imply a rebel, to treat Jesus Christ as being based on some Jew that was called Messiah and was crucified. There might be some themes from the Ephesian tale that were used in the original gospel of Mark, but I believe it is unlikely that the author would make up this crucifixion based on the Ephesian tale compared to getting inspired by it by parallels: There is a crucifixion in both stories, and there might or might not be, something about a drug. The latter is hard to tell, as Jesus Christ was used as a savior figure for Jewish schools of medicine in the 2nd century and they might use drugs in their stories. Or not. Anyway, I think it's a good idea to separate the literary Jesus (Christ) from the historical Jesus (the rebel). This happens a lot of times in history, when people write stories based on some person that lived, but they might even put the literary character in the wrong century. E.g. Santa Claus vs Nicholas of Myra. In addition to this, keep in mind that Early Christians argue what's the "best version" (gospel means "good story") across multiple genres of literature, some who were not meant to be taken seriously. Ancient religious literature spans multiple genres and interpreting them as one serious genre is a categorical error.
January 24, 2026 at 12:39 AM
jeriwesterson.bsky.social
That seemed to happen a lot to parent an uprising. The problem with this info is that you can't find any corroboration outside the Bible, not reliable Here's an interesting discussion on reddit: Historicity of King Herod’s Slaughter of the Innocents? : r/AcademicBiblical share.google/OEh9AVSQStsl...
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December 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
grantimatter.bsky.social
That seems like what I’ve gathered, but I can’t say from where. (Old Robert Price pods? /r/AcademicBiblical?)
January 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
goethean.bsky.social
Check out /r/academicbiblical for far more of it than you could ever dream of.
February 4, 2026 at 6:29 PM
pistondeveloper.bsky.social
There is a new thread on /r/AcademicBiblical about the historicity of Jesus:

This has been a long debate back and forth, whether Jesus was historical or not.
What are examples of stumbling blocks to mythicism? (self.AcademicBiblical) submitted an hour ago * by Far_Breakfast_5808 Obviously mythicism hasn't gained much traction in the academic sphere, and rightfully so, although it has gained decent popularity among laypeople, particularly since its proponents are quite vocal (particularly Carrier). Apart from, for example, the Tacitus mention, and Josephus's mention of James, what are other examples of stumbling blocks to mythicism? That is, known facts, practices, or writings that mythicism cannot explain cleanly. There are probably several examples, but you get what I mean. I'm also interested in learning how have mythicists have tried to explain these stumbling blocks, and how their responses have been received by other scholars. So for example, have mythicists tried to deal with this stumbling blocks in the past? If so, how? Given that mythicism is far more popular among laypeople than within the academe, when I ask about "mythicists", I am asking about both scholars (i.e. Carrier, Price, Thompson, Lataster, Doherty, etc.) regardless of qualifications, and prominent lay proponents (meaning not simply those who believe, but also those who promote the idea).
January 24, 2026 at 12:35 AM
mithos343.bsky.social
I like when people go to /r/AcademicBiblical and say "Hi I'm in a debate...find something that says this..
No bias pls"
August 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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ontem alguém perguntou algo sobre inspiração divina na comunidade /AcademicBiblical. eu fiz uma respostinha legal, mas como a moderação não permite perguntas teológicas, o post original foi apagado

mas gostei do que eu escrevi, então apreciem
pentapolen • ha 11 h If the Bible has contradictions because the authors did not care about contradictions, then we have an argument against divine inspiration. If someone claim that a text is divinely inspired, then they have to point to qualities unique of divinely inspired texts. Unfortunately, we are in this eternal cycle: 1. a claim of divine inspiration 2. someone saying refusing the claim because of some contradiction or lack of information in the text 3. the defender of divine inspiration explaining that the contradiction is due some human factor, ironically strengthening the human origin of the bible. We also have the problem that people who claim the Bible in inspired do not have a library of other books equally divinely inspired to compared it to. The truth is that the books of the Bible are painfully human. Organizing them in a single collection may give them new meanings, but that is also painfully human. (There are many ways to understand what divine inspiration could mean, but it's clear to me here that we are going with the traditional evangelical position)
September 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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New article for Torah.com by Dr Monika Amsler

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Of Jars, Scraps, and Scrolls: How Ancient Books Were Composed - TheTorah.com
In biblical times, scraps of writing were stored together in jars, likely based on theme or topic, and these collections were combined and edited into our biblical books. Similarly, Talmudic pericopae...
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February 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
andrewsshi.bsky.social
Exactly!

(You're also tempting me to go off on one of my rants on r/AcademicBiblical, a.k.a., the lots of guys who've read a Bart Ehrman or Israel Finkelstein book and think they're experts subreddit.)
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Found this amazing Google drive canon list collection on Reddit r/AcademicBiblical

Thought I would share it here.
#bible #earlyChristianity #christianity #biblicalstudies

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September 11, 2024 at 7:32 PM
andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social
Same with r/AcademicBiblical for biblical studies. Really top notch scholars active in that community.
November 30, 2024 at 5:51 AM