Top posts, last quarter of 2023

 I don't do a monthly roundup, unlike at my main blog. But, here is a roundup of the last quarter of 2023.

 Again, not all of these may have been written in 2023, but they were the most read the last quarter.

We'll start from the bottom.

No. 10? Bart Ehrman goes from JW to Marcionite, comparing his second most recent book to his most recent. 

No. 9? An extended book review. "A Canticle for Leibowitz" was VERY interesting, but a set of secong and third thoughts led me to call out various things related to the ethnicity of that person Leibowitz.

No. 8 was one of many posts about stupidities at Reddit's r/AcademicBiblical, as I called out a shitload of stupidity in people commenting on a post about the Woman Taken in Adultery pericope from John.

No. 7? "Say goodbye to History for Atheists" was written in 2017, but has been updated more than once since then.

No. 6 was also from last year, and also from r/AcademicBiblical. and was various commenting fails by "Smart Fool" at the same subreddit.  

No. 5? The myth that Paul Hill from St. John's College wrote "Lean on Me," blogged years ago, started trending, in part because I posted a piece where I had dropped this link onto a St. John's College Facebook group.

At No. 4,  from a year ago January, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod President Matthew Harrison is either actually dealing with or else pretending to deal with Trumpian-aligned fascism in his denomination.

No. 3? Calling out Robert Sapolsky for being all wet on the hoary chestnut of "free will vs determinism," first for believing this dichotomy really exists and secondly for plumping for determinism.

No. 2 deserves a hat tip to Paul Davidson of "Is That in the Bible"? I riffed on a post of his, into standing both the kingship of Josiah and the development of Deuteronomy on their heads.

Drumroll ....

No. 1? As if a first round of proofs wasn't enough, "More proof the Buddha was no Buddha." Goes way back to 2007, but trended because I posted it to a subreddit in response to some Buddhist chuds. But, the comments long before that, like "Addie"? Claiming that the Buddha's teachings are ineffable sounds like Paul quoting Job in Romans. Nope on both.