Previously, I posted the video. Now, the conclusion SLIDES: RESEARCH NOTES: History Valley talk with Jacob Berman: Issues With Dating the Pauline Epistles Nina Livesey suggests Paul was created in the second century in Acts and the letters are fictive correspondence based on that figure. Fictive correspondence was often in collections and so we find … (Part 2/2) Come See Me on History Valley Podcast with Jacob Berman – All Things Paul! MY NOTES AND SLIDES FOR THE PRESENTATION

If anyone is interested, 2 members of The Heidegger Circle (including me) are hosting an open online discussion of Heidegger’s Origin of the Work of Art November 3, 2025 at 6 pm EST. Location: https://iu.zoom.us/j/5415673650

Overview: After first outlining the literary and theological reasons why scholars question the historical accuracy of the gospel passion narratives, this presentation tackles a range of hotly disputed questions: How likely is it that Jesus had a Jewish trial? Who was Pilate? And did he need to try Jesus? Why incude Barabbas? And was Jesus … Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 2: The Last Hours of Jesus: What Really Happened? With Helen Bond

Overview: New Testament scholars often act as if all the really important historical data about Jesus survived somewhere, somehow, and that we can piece together a good general picture of his life. But the reality is that the overwhelming majority of Jesus’s words and actions are lost forever. This talk is all about those missing … Reporting From Ehrman’s New Insights into the New Testament 2025 Conference Part 1: The Missing Pieces in the Quest for the Historical Jesus with Prof Mark Goodacre

The modern quest for the historical Paul, determining who the apostle Paul was and what he said, is in an important way borne out of a real peculiarity in our New Testament sources.  On the One hand, we have the authentic letters of Paul that scholars see as one of our earliest sources for the … New Published Article! Link to “The Quest for the Historical Paul with Nina Livesey (part B)”

Why are you so petrified of silence?Here can you handle this?Did you think about your bills, you ex, your deadlinesOr when you think you’re going to die?Or did you long for the next distraction? (Alanis Morisette) When I wrote my MA thesis on Heidegger back in 2002, I took my basic orientation from William McNeil’s … Heidegger and the History of Personhood: How Humanity Became Alienated from Itself

I did my MA thesis on Heidegger and the Greeks. Here are my Secular Frontier posts on Heidegger’s reading of the history of Philosophy: Heidegger and the History of Personhood: How Humanity Became Alienated from Itself Proving Heidegger: A Case Study of Parousia in Plato’s Phaedo My Sorbonne Talk on Heidegger and Kant: Causality (2/2) … (INDEX) Heidegger’s Philosophical Encounters with the History of Philosophy

Abstract: One of the exciting challenges in Heidegger studies is engaging him as a Historian of Philosophy, not only piecing together what Heidegger said about the tradition, but then attempting to show Heidegger’s interpretation to be compelling by examining the thinker he engages with.  In this essay, I will be looking at Plato’s use of … Proving Heidegger: A Case Study of Parousia in Plato’s Phaedo

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