Could you explain the story of Oedipus Rex as a religious figure, who had all the "signs and trappings of a deity" (Alan Dundes)

I think I heard you say that the OT doesn't prophesy about a Messiah. Did I misunderstand you or did you say this?


Does Matthew 19:13-15 seem to not fit between the other verses? Seems like it was added much later.

How would Pilate be able to converse with Jesus? Could Jesus have known Greek?

Why no updates to the Bible?

Is there any proof that the Bible was ever intended to be anything but a fictional endeavor? If so, where can that be found?

Deuteronomy 34:5-6 say Moses died and was buried. Some say that’s a sneaky way of saying he didn’t die but was taken up to heaven alive, so he was still available to be one of the Two Witnesses in Revelation. But is that cogent? Maybe some non-canonical scripture told it differently?

You’ve mentioned some influences that took you from liberal Christianity to atheism. These were Derrida, Don Cupitt, and the 19th Century critics of the New Testament. What were some ideas these individuals shared that were significant in your transition from liberal Christianity to atheism?

Do you have any references you could share concerning the nineteenth-century circuit-riding preachers and their “behaviors” when moving from town to town?

What do fundamentalists make of Jude 9, where the writer alludes to an apocryphal story?
Whence the belief that angels do not sing?

Some speculate that the Holy Spirit was included in the Trinity in order to mirror the theology of Neoplatonism, where it speaks of a World Soul poised between the First Father and the Demiurge/Logos. Thoughts?

In what book(s) do you discuss “hermeneutical ventriloquism”?

What is your view on Roland Barthes’s “death of the author” position against pursuing authorial intent as it relates to the Bible?

What are the most important aspects of Derrida’s poststructuralism for critical textual scholarship generally?

Is there any indication in the Bible that the messiah might return as a female?

Is there any indication in the Bible that the messiah could not possibly return as a female?