• General - The Book

    Just back from ETS 2024 in San Diego

    My thanks to Wipf & Stock for their promotional activities, as they had a booth at this year’s Evangelical Theological Society annual meeting, and displayed my book along with many others. I do enjoy these annual ETS gatherings. This was my fifth. Thousands of attendees. Get to chat with interesting…

  • NT Use of Matthew

    New Insights into Acts 20: The Word of His Grace

    In this “new insights into Acts” series, we are re-examining the text of Acts under the premise that Matthew was published coincident with the events of Acts 10–11, and that Mark was published shortly thereafter. Further, that these Gospels were immediately accepted as authoritative Scripture, as having been published by…

  • Synoptic Sequences

    When was the hemorrhaging woman healed?

    In this “Synoptic Sequences” series, we are working through some of the sequential differences which one finds when comparing Matthew’s Gospel to Mark’s Gospel, with the hope that the differences can be explained in a way that is consistent with my early Matthew proposition. Therefore, we’re approaching these sequential differences…

  • Synoptic Sequences

    The two-part story of the withered fig tree

    In this “Synoptic Sequences” series, we are working through some of the sequential differences which one finds when comparing Matthew’s Gospel to Mark’s Gospel, with the hope that the differences can be explained in a way that is consistent with my early Matthew proposition. Therefore, we’re approaching these sequential differences…

  • Analysis & Research

    Biography Sizes: Gospels vs. Plutarch

    How do the Gospels compare with other contemporary biographies, relative to size? Plutarch was the most prolific biographer of the era, writing in Greek around the end of the first century. The following chart compares the word count of the four Gospels with fifty biographies written by Plutarch. Although Matthew’s…

  • Synoptic Sequences

    Recasting Mark’s kai euthys as “and then”

    In this “Synoptic Sequences” series, we are working through some of the sequential differences which one finds when comparing Matthew’s Gospel to Mark’s Gospel, with the hope that the differences can be explained in a way that is consistent with my early Matthew proposition. Therefore, we’re approaching these sequential differences…

  • The Book

    Church Association Regional Conference

    Am out there trying to promote the book. Our church association had a regional conference this past week in Vancouver, Washington. Please reach out to me, if there is an opportunity to speak at your event and make the case for an early Matthew!