The upcoming Episode 38 will be the final episode of Born in the Second Century for the foreseeable future, as the show will go into an indefinite hiatus. I've been considering this decision for the past several months, and there were a number of factors that led to it.
However, I w...
2024-03-16 02:15:50 +0000 UTC View Post
In the Road to BSC segment in the latest Bonus Show, I mentioned my old Marcionite Scriptures website and I also said that I would post the New Testament dating timeline from my Defender of Peace blog.
The attached pics show the Marcionite Scriptures homepage. In the fourth pic, i...
Presenting the January 2024 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which we complete the Road to Born in the Second Century as well as the review of the book Churchfails. In the Churchfails segment, we cover Saturninus, the Montanists, the Ebionites, and the Quartodecimans.
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Currently I'm working on Churchfails Part 2, but I also began uploading full BSC episodes to the YouTube channel at the attached link. If you are interested in YouTube, and watching or listening to videos thereon, please consider subscribing to this channel.
The videos are only an audio rec...
2024-01-20 02:12:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the December 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which we begin reviewing the infamous book "Churchfails."
This episode is in MP3 format.
2024-01-04 00:39:38 +0000 UTC View PostChris, a called Apostle by God's Grace, to the Community of Readers: greetings.
I will be turning off billing for the 01/01/24 and 02/01/24 cycles, which means that 2 forthcoming Bonus Shows (December and January) will be a free gift, similar to the salvation that we all receive through Chr...
2023-12-30 03:02:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the November 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which we examine the Messianic Secret, and travel further along the Road to BSC.
This episode is in MP3 format.
2023-12-02 02:05:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the October 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, an exploration of the Secret Gospel of Mark, and the arguments for and against its authenticity.
Note: The host reads Clement's Letter to Theodore in its entirety in this Episode. There are no chapter division...
2023-10-24 02:10:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the September 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, a full commentary on Episode 20 of Born in the Second Century (the Apologetics Parody).
In going through Episode 20 in detail, the host also discusses topics of interest including: whether J. Warner Wallace'...
2023-10-10 02:24:21 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, thank you very much to all the new members.
I just finished recording Episode 33; it's a fairly long one that looks to be about 2:10 or 2:15 or so in total. Quitting smoking/vaping on August 26 (after 21 years) made my September about as barren of activity as the First Century is of ...
2023-10-01 03:17:43 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the lateness of this. I actually felt mostly normal today, which is good, so I completed Version 1 of the Gospel of John reconstruction.
I've done about 20 - 30 mock-ups of commentators' reconstructions of things like the sources of the Gospels, or Paul's letters, or the Evang...
2023-09-04 20:15:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the August 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, on the Synoptic Problem.
The host's reasons for accepting the Two-Source Hypothesis and the Q Source are discussed. The host also explains why he does not believe that Luke used Matthew's Gospel as a source. 2023-09-02 01:12:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the July 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, which is the first Q&A (Questions and Answers) installment.
Listener questions include: potential threats to the BSC Hypothesis, Ye Olde Bible Readings, the Criterion of Embarrassment, the Mandaeans, the host...
2023-08-01 04:22:49 +0000 UTC View PostI've just finished the editing of the July Bonus Show (Q&A) and sent it for mastering; I expect to get it back tomorrow and to upload the show then. I apologize for the delay which was due to illness last week (as I will explain on the show and which you might also be able to tell somewhat fr...
2023-08-01 01:12:48 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the questions received for the Q&A Show was about the Q hypothesis. I used that as motivation to finish a project that I've been putting off for some time, which is to create an annotated Gospel of Mark that shows when Matthew and Luke follow Mark's order.
In looking at the Marka...
2023-07-09 21:20:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the June 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which the host presents an analysis of the Birth Narrative in Matthew's Gospel.
The episode presents, as a starting point, Raymond Brown's analysis of the Birth Narrative in Matthew as being a composite story....
2023-06-22 00:21:55 +0000 UTC View PostI'm sharing a new document for Patrons, but before going into that I wanted to mention that listeners Todd, Dan, and others have mentioned the possibility of a Q&A Bonus Show. It seems like a good idea so if anyone has any questions they would like to be answered, they can post them in the co...
2023-06-07 22:19:40 +0000 UTC View PostFor June of 2023:
The Main Episode will be on JUSTIN MARTYR'S ALLEGED USE OF THE GOSPELS.
The Bonus Show will be on MATTHEW'S BIRTH NARRATIVE, AND ROAD TO BSC PART 3 OF 4.
Bonus Materials to be issued this month include my master note on Justin's alleged use of the Gospels, whic...
2023-06-01 02:58:56 +0000 UTC View PostIn addition to the monthly Bonus Shows, I wanted to also start sharing more of my show preparation materials, and so over time I'll be posting more of my so-called "Working Copies," which, for the New Testament, are based on the NASB.
I remember having a book called "The Bible With Sources ...
2023-05-30 23:58:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the May 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which the host risks an attempt at a close reading of Mark Chapter One.
The episode begins with observations about the Opening Skit from BSC Episode 29, and is followed by a discussion of the major pericopes in...
2023-05-30 02:01:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the April 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which the host continues the Road to Born in the Second Century. In this installment the host's ill-fated foray into doctrinaire Catholicism is covered, as well as his introduction to Gnosticism.
Presenting the March 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which the host presents a new recurring segment: The Road to Born in the Second Century, in which the background of the podcast is discussed. Today's segment covers the host's earliest childhood and the travails of...
2023-03-29 22:02:28 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I do plan to put out bonus shows in January, I wanted to thank you for bearing with me over the past few months by pausing payments through March 1, 2023. This doesn't mean that anything is changing with the show, but that I wanted to thank you for bearing with my shaky rel...
2022-12-23 17:54:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The next "non-gospel" source presented by Bart Ehrman in "Did Jesus Exist" is the infamous Papias. He considers Papias an independent source for the Historical Jesus because Papias does not appear to be getting his information about Jesus from the New Testament gospels. Therefore, host Chris Palm...
2022-10-31 01:53:13 +0000 UTC View PostA brief update on the planned shows over the next two weeks or so.
This week I'll be doing the Patreon show for the next installment of the Ehrman series. It's about Papias, but Bart Ehrman really doesn't give us much on Papias to work with, so it'll be my responsibility to inject sufficien...
2022-10-25 06:15:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The response to Bart Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist?" continues, with an overview of his next "non-gospel" source for Jesus: the gigantic, fraudulent imposition knows as the First Letter of Clement.
The topics discussed include, viz.: whether Clement's Jesus sayings are taken from a written sour...
2022-10-02 16:31:44 +0000 UTC View Post
In this bonus show, we continue our miniseries on Bart Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist?" with today's focus being the (fake) letters of Ignatius. To what extent can these monstrous fabrications be considered "an independent witness" to the Historical Jesus?
The topics to be discussed include, viz...
2022-08-30 01:56:33 +0000 UTC View Post
In this bonus show we begin a new recurring miniseries on the Opening Readings of the Born in the Second Century episodes. Here, the readings for Episodes 1 through 4 are revisited and illuminated.
Other topics are also discussed, viz.: my list of possible ideas for the first few episodes; ...
2022-08-07 01:08:42 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to thank everyone for their patience as we resume our schedule after a hectic month. This week, I'll be recording Episode 25 as well as Bonus Show 11. My plan is to release these by the end of this week.
I had started preparing Episode 25 intending to follow the formula estab...
2022-07-25 21:51:23 +0000 UTC View Post
There's no main episode this month, but the bonus shows continue as host Chris Palmero progresses further into Bart Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist." In this installment, Ehrman covers the gospels as sources for Jesus, and also has somewhat to say about oral tradition.
We'll talk about his ...
2022-06-28 17:31:19 +0000 UTC View Post