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Symbolic History in the Gospels

January 23, 2025
Alastair Roberts
Alastair Roberts

The following was first published on my Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/p/19-symbolic-history-in-the-gospels.

Lydia McGrew, 'Explaining away and symbolic details in the Gospels': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnz6-WR21H0&ab_channel=LydiaMcGrew

Jonah Schupbach, 'Conjunctive Explanations and Inference to the Best Explanation': https://www.jstor.org/stable/26874516

Jesus the Bridegroom in John and Revelation: https://argosy.substack.com/i/135349926/jesus-the-bridegroom-in-john

My discussion of Joshua Berman on scriptural history: https://argosy.substack.com/p/11-venetian-sojourn

Follow my Substack, the Anchored Argosy at https://argosy.substack.com/. See my latest podcasts at https://adversariapodcast.com/.

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