Scholars
RIP
I have just heard that Rev Dr Anthony Meredith SJ has died. As well as being a Catholic priest he was a distinguished patristics scholar at Oxford and London universities and he received me into the Roman Catholic Church when… Read More ›
“If you’re on a ship that’s going down, you might as well travel first class.”
British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm justifying his hypocritical lifestyle of relative affluence.
A Perspective on the Pandemic – Sh. Timothy Winter
The current pandemic has upended nearly every aspect of the world we live in. But is it unprecedented? British muslim scholar Dr. Timothy Winter aka Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, Dean of Cambridge Muslim College, shares his perspective on this humbling… Read More ›
Decolonializing Qur’anic Studies
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Addendum to Al-Isra and the “Temple” in the Islamic Sources: A Response to Sam Shamoun
Addendum to Al-Isra and the “Temple” in the Islamic Sources: A Response to Sam Shamoun Originally posted on the Quran and Bible blog بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْم “Exalted is He who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram to… Read More ›
Welcome to my new YouTube Channel where I explore issues to do with Islam and Christianity
Welcome to my new YouTube Channel where I explore issues to do with Islam and Christianity from an academic perspective. Be sure to subscribe. I create fresh content virtually every day. See you there! Paul Williams London.
The Trinity is Incoherent by Dr Timothy Winter – part 3
Section on New Testament Christology, with a few words to salafi critics of Dr Tim Winter and my reading of his work.
Searing confessions of top New Testament scholar Dr Dale C. Allison
This is a no holes barred academic discussion of the Quest for the historical Jesus by one of the leading historians in the field Dr Dale C. Allison. Allison is Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological… Read More ›
Bart Ehrman & Peter J Williams debate how the Gospels portray the claims Jesus made about himself.
Moses parted the Red Sea.. Is he God? No.
The limitations of Western historiography and the Quranic revelation: a question of epistemology
I post this short comment as an addendum to my recent post: The failure of western biblical scholarship to come to certain results in the quest for the historical Jesus Western historians chose to operate within certain materialist constraints which… Read More ›
The failure of western biblical scholarship to come to certain results in the quest for the historical Jesus
(Bo Winegard is a Professor of Psychology in Ohio)
