Thank you to Hugo Holbling for his kind mention of my post on history at his blog here . He also asks how 'all history if fiction' ...

Thanks for the comment from Jack about John Philoponus. Another important earlier thinker in mechanics was John Buridan who was a natural ph...

"All history is fiction." This is often held out as a foundation of post modernism, although I've never been able to find out ...

I like to think of myself as being consistently pro-life. That means I am anti-abortion, anti-euthanasia and anti-death penalty. Here in the...

Elliot, a commentator on this blog, has sent an interesting link about the Turin Shroud . As I am not a fan myself, I found this way of proc...

I have started reading NP Lemche's The Israelites in Myth and Tradition . Lemche is said to be one of the leading 'minimalists' ...

The Larry Summers affair rumbles on. I won't say a man has never been so persecuted for speaking some common sense, but he certainly loo...

For those who don't always look at the comments, let me point out again the response to my thoughts on Dever made by Celsus. I am very ...

Here are some further thoughts on William Dever's What Did the Bible Writers Know and When Did they Know It? The bulk of the book is in ...

An anonymous feedback suggested that I should be criticizing JP Holding of Tektonics.org as well as Joe. I can't really see how Joe...