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SBL 2: My First Performance at the Big Show

Giving my first paper presentation at the national meeting for SBL, I felt a bit like Napoleon Dynamite trying to work out at Muscle Beach. After going through with the presentation, I now understand the shocked stares I got from some people when they heard I would be giving a paper at SBL as a [...]

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Argument from Silence

I am often frustrated by arguments from silence. The following quote is an example of what is, to me, bewildering logic. The topic is the dating of James and the author would like to argue for an early dating by James the Just himself:
James’s lack of any mention of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. [...]

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