What’s on the table when we claim that a newly-discovered text came from a Biblical author? To answer that question might take an investigation that spans the Roman Empire, desert monasteries, New York City apartments, the academic publishing industry, and the libraries and universities that change hands during wars and elections and all sorts of other events that intervene between us and that glorious first century. Such a story is before us today, and Geoffrey S. Smith’s and Brent C. Landau’s recent book The Secret Gospel of Mark is going to show us just how complicated and sometimes how weird the world of textual criticism can be. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome them to the show.
Nathan Gilmour interviews Gordon Teskey about his new book "The Poetry of John Milton."
Nathan Gilmour talks with Gary Dorrien about his recent book "American Democratic Socialism."
Do not think any man happy until he has died, free from suffering. That line, or something like it depending on the translator, ends...