Darek Barefoot's new book, Gospel Mysteries

Darek Barefoot is perhaps best known to this audience as the one who published a response to Richard Carrier's critique of my book on Internet Infidels. In my estimation, that response goes beyond simply rebutting Carrier's mistakes to making a positive contribution to the development of the Argument from Reason. He also had some good discussions with Blue Devil Knight and Doctor Logic during the heyday of Dangerous Idea 2, mostly back in 2007.

His new book, Gospel Mysteries, defends the inspiration of the Bible by arguing that the typological connections between the Old Testament and the New Testament strongly indicate that the claim that the Old Testament prefigures Christ is not something that the early Christians just made up. The Amazon page I link to here includes a detailed review by J. D. Walters, a sometime commentator here and a contributor to Christian CADRE, which should give you a more detailed account of the argument than I can supply here.

Kenneth Kitchen supports the conservative view of the OT

On the "minimalist" debate concerning the Hebrew Bible

One scholar gives some reasons for rejecting minimalism with respect to the Hebrew Bible.

HT: Steve Hays

Lessons from the Canaanite Conquest

Did God want the Israelites to kill all the Canaanites? Or is this the response of a repentant group of Israelites who have come to realize that allowing Canaanite influence led to their downfall as a nation?

This solution may seem to "errantist" for some. But that doesn't bother me especially. Should it?

Whos afraid of the Old Testament God?