Both these come via r/AcademicBiblical, but it's the scholars that are at issue.
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My respect for Paula Fredriksen just went further in the toilet with this stupidity about what actually counts as monotheism. The convert to Judaism went high on my teh stupidz some time ago with this backdoor attempt to inject Zionism into Palestinian demographics, which led me to find other intellectual problems.
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And, my respect went down for a younger-generation scholar as well. Via a comment, on YouTube, Dan McClellan justifies a pre-70 Markan dating in part on Mark getting info from Peter before he was martyred in Rome. I dropped my piece on how Tacitus is almost certainly a Christian interpolation, "Christians" didn't exist then, there weren't enough Jesus followers to be on Nero's radar, etc. He goes on to claim Paul was also killed then, even though he was not a Roman citizen, the last one-quarter of Acts is highly non-historical and ergo he almost certainly never got to Rome.
McClellan is right on the issue, near the end of the piece, about how modern fundagelical colleges and seminaries dispute a strawman version of critical scholarship — if they engage even that.
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