{"id":156,"date":"2020-09-08T23:19:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T23:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/?p=156"},"modified":"2020-09-10T19:48:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T19:48:21","slug":"lesson-2-bible-contents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/2020\/09\/08\/lesson-2-bible-contents\/","title":{"rendered":"8\/27 lesson 2 &#8211; bible contents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael W. Holmes is a reliable source in his writing the book, <em>The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies<\/em>. He has received a BA, MA, and Ph.D. in theological studies and currently works as a professor of Biblical Studies at Bethel University. It was very easy to find out who he was and see all of his published works with a simple google search of his name. This makes me trust that he is a reliable source as he has the academic background and necessary exposure to write on the subject of &#8216;The Biblical Canon&#8217;. Just because Dr. Holmes is experienced in theological studies does not mean he had no biases on the matter. Especially with his current job at Bethel University, a Christian college, he may have opinions on the Bible that other doctors in theological studies do not agree with.<\/p>\n<p>This book was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. This gives me more confidence in the book, as it has a reputable publisher which makes me trust in the sanctity of the information. According to the Oxford University Press website, authors must develop high-quality work and go through rigorous proposals before having their work accepted for publishing. This again proves that the work we are dealing with for class is reputable.<\/p>\n<p>During this lesson, I learned a lot about reliable sources and how to tell if something is unreliable. This will be helpful both finding sources for this class, but in all my other classes as well. I learned that just because someone is a professor, or because they have received their Ph.D. does not mean they are a reliable source of information. In order to use reliable sources, I must be willing to put in the work by researching the authors I am using in my sources in order to determine what their biases might be and if their opinions are extremely against the norm. I have learned to become a more critical information gatherer in order to use the best sources possible from the most informed authors on specific subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael W. Holmes is a reliable source in his writing the book, The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies. He has received a BA, MA, and Ph.D. in theological studies and currently works as a professor of Biblical Studies at Bethel University. It was very easy to find out who he was and see all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196905,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}