Archaeology, Beer, Bible “Archaeological evidence of beer-making is often hard to come by because most of the tools used in beer production…are often linked to bread-making…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 July 2017 Archaeological evidence of beer-making is often hard to come by because most of the...
Scholarship “Epistemological insiderism not only stakes out certain domains as belonging to persons with certain identities; it also risks boxing persons with those identities into specific domains” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 June 2017 …the Tuvel affair raises issues that go beyond the controversial notion of transracialism. First,...
Scholarship “…respecting interdisciplinary partnership, virtually all of us have loyalties which we neither can nor should deny” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 December 2016 …respecting interdisciplinary partnership, virtually all of us have loyalties which we neither can nor...
Scholarship “When a New Testament scholar provides evidence that the Judaism of the dual Torah…flourished in the early decades of the first century in Galilee, then…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 November 2016 When a New Testament scholar provides evidence that the Judaism of the dual Torah,...
Scholarship ” If subjective opinion makes its way as fact, it is because of the political power of a given professor, not because of the power of persuasion of reasoned and systematic arguments…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 November 2016 The “Herr Professor” who passes his opinion without fearing any public laughter will tell...
New Testament, Scholarship, Talmud “…it is a fruitless quest to continue to try to find elusive rabbinic sources for everything which Paul wrote” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 September 2016 In the case of Paul and the rabbis, let us assume that, at no...
Scholarship “I am only suggesting the lack of value in many value judgments, when these emerge from an acquaintance merely with excerpt instead of with the intent, and the nuances, of a literature” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 August 2016 Rabbinists have sometimes assumed that a gospel pericope was lifted bodily from the Gemara....
Scholarship “To my mind, we encounter in Josephus not precision but pretension” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 July 2016 I have to state that my studies in Philo lead me to regard him...
Scholarship “The various literatures relevant to Judaism and Christianity are so bulky and so diverse and so complex that no one person can master them all and the secondary scholarship in full thoroughness” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 May 2016 The various literatures relevant to Judaism and Christianity are so bulky and so diverse...
Historiography “Reassigning the pyramids from pagan Egyptian tombs to holy granaries of a Biblical patriarch Christianized them…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 January 2016 Julius Honorius, a Roman writer of Late Antiquity (c. 500 +/- 50 years), was...