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=LydiaMcGrewJonah Schupbach, 'Conjunctive Explanations and Inference to the Best Explanation': https://www.jstor.org/stable/26874516Jesus the Bridegroom in John and Revelation: https://argosy.substack.com/i/135349926/jesus-the-bridegroom-in-johnMy discussion of Joshua Berman on scriptural history: https://argosy.substack.com/p/11-venetian-sojournFollow my Substack, the Anchored Argosy at https://argosy.substack.com/. See my latest podcasts at https://adversariapodcast.com/.If you have enjoyed my videos and podcasts, please tell your friends. If you are interested in supporting my videos and podcasts and my research more generally, please consider supporting my work on Patreon (www.patreon.com/zugzwanged), using my PayPal account (bit.ly/2RLaUcB), or by buying books for my research on Amazon (www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3…3O?ref_=wl_share).You can also listen to the audio of these episodes on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/alastairs-adversaria/id1416351035.