Looking at a couple of recent additions, as I delve in:
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I can't remember where I saw "The Amateur Exegete," but I thought he looked promising at first.
He looks less and less so now.
He has a critical approach to scholarship, but it's on the conservative side of that. To use a "name" on the New Testament side? He's James McGrath level, probably.
His Aug. 24 roundup? (He hosts some sort of critical religious thinking blog roundup, or hosts it for himself) Believing in the historicity of Moses? At least he presents the modern critical conventional POV.
His Aug. 17 roundup? Worse, with the last entry, who he admitted in comment exchange is a personal friend:
Blogger καταπέτασμα writes about the Matthean narrative’s guarded tomb and argues that the story seems to suggest Pilate was aiming to kill a resurrected Jesus if push came to shove.
I clicked through, and while it's bad, it's arguably NOT the worse that guy has written.
That said, the roundups do give me a few connections. That's where I saw the idiotic new Testimonium Flavianum book, including a free PDF.
A Sept. 11 post? He linked to the odious Tim O'Neill with No. 16 in his series of "Great Myths." I told this dude that O'Neill's greatest myth was his self promoted myth denying papal antisemitism. So far, he hasn't responded.
His Sept. 21 roundup? Links to reviews of multiple evangelical bible commentaries etc. This is NOT a blog carnival; it's a personal roundup, like the ones above.
His Oct. 12 roundup? He's not convinced of the non-existence, the non-historicity, of Abraham.
I had thought he was an atheist, but reading his "about" more carefully, he's a None. He says his goal is to promote better biblical understanding. And he's not doing it, not IMO.
So that I don't forget about free books, I may move him to my links list but delete him from the blogroll feed.
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Through a Bible Darkly is good, from what I can see — but posts so rarely.
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Markus Vincent is here to see how much he discusses other issues besides his "heterodox" take on Marcion vs Luke.
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Thoughts on Papyrus is a lot more into fiction than I am and may move to the links list.
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Atheology has been removed, period. As I read through it more, the author has much more of his own confusion than he claims "philosophers" have.
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I have added ResoluteReader, who seems a lot more of what I'm looking for. Reads more nonfiction than Papyrus, and the same broad vein as I do. Well, sort of. He is some sort of Marxist, which this leftist definitely is not. For example, I would never try to situate environmentalism within even a semi-Marxist framework.
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