This is my presentation at a forum in Barbados in 2008 where the moot was ‘Is African-Egyptian Religion the True Doctrinal Source of the Judaeo-Christian Faith?’. Discussants were Ras Dr. Ikael Tafari and Brother Neter affirming, and Dr. Winston Thompson and I countering the moot.
In our exchange this evening it is important to remember the value of supporting evidence for allegations made, in other words we all have to prove the assertions we make.…

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Any adult person who cannot, at least, identify with Tiger Woods in his ongoing sex saga is abnormal, too old, too forgetful or ‘too lie’ (untruthful). I say this because even if one has never committed adultery—and remember there is physical as well as emotional adultery—one can still identify with the saga of desire for another to whom one does not belong.
Another dimension of this issue that is oft forgotten is that some of…

In the wake of yesterday’s natural disaster in Haiti two instinctive responses are likely. All, I hope, will seek to find ways of helping to alleviate the suffering of our Haitian friends. Some Christians may begin to wonder about the devastating earthquake as a ‘sign’ or judgment from God. Let’s resist this second response and remember how Jesus countered a similar line of sloppy thinking re two incidents in Lk.13.1-5. The first incident: when he…

What was the nature of the academic landscape when the German scholar Julius Wellhausen proposed his late-date 4-source theory to explain how the Pentateuch (Genesis to Deuteronomy) came to be written/edited?  Was the hypothesis grounded in and informed by the related disciplines of Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) studies?
Veteran specialist in ANE archaeology and literatures, Kenneth Kitchen thinks not and points out the absence of material to work with in the late 19th century and…