Is God a Moral Monster? (Copan) 3. Issues, Questions
July 29, 2011This is the last in a 3-part series of reviews of Paul Copan's recent book Is God a Moral Monster?…Is God a Moral Monster? (Paul Copan) 2: Strengths
July 28, 2011I'm in the midst of a three-series review of Paul Copan's Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the…Is God a Moral Monster? (Paul Copan) 1. Differences
July 25, 2011When my book proposal for God Behaving Badly went to publishers (Sept 2009) word came back that Baker already had a…Wright, Siebert and Copan 2: Siebert
June 12, 2011This is the second in a series reviews on books that address the problem of God behaving badly in the…Wright, Siebert and Copan 1: Wright
June 5, 2011Scot McKnight's blog Jesus Creed has been running a series of posts on God Behaving Badly. One of the commentators didn't…Book Review of Did God Really Command Genocide? Part 2
February 20, 2015In recent years there has been a spate of books addressing the problem of the “Canaanite genocide” by Wright, Copan,…Review of Did God Really Command Genocide? Part 1
February 6, 2015When I spoke to Paul Copan at a biblical studies conference in November 2013, he told me about a book…Eight Things I’m Thankful for: Highlights of SBL
November 26, 2013I just returned from the Society of Biblical Literature meeting in Baltimore, where I saw old friends and made new…Holy War in the Bible
April 30, 2013"What about the Amalekites? God told Saul to wipe them out, but the people Saul was supposed to wipe out…Don’t ignore the problem
October 11, 2011Richard Dawkins highlights the problematic texts of the Old Testament (e.g., the Canaanite genocide in Joshua; the smiting of Uzzah…