Understanding the biblical Herods
Bruce Chilton moves Herod the Great and Herod Antipas from backdrop to center stage.
New Testament
The New Testament has two words for “good.” Knowing the difference between them can help us build a better society.
Deconstructing the Republican Jesus
Biblical scholar Tony Keddie shows how the conservative movement enlisted the Bible to help its cause.
The Old Testament, the Tanakh, and the Hebrew Bible
Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler show how multiple traditions arise when different people read the same text.
Interpreting Jesus’ healings as a conflict with purity laws is dead wrong
Jesus’ conflict, Matthew Thiessen argues, was with the forces of death.
Candida Moss asks what bodily resurrection means
How early Christians thought about bodies and how we do
Do anti-Semitic appeals to the Bible always constitute an abuse of scripture? Would that it were so simple.
“If to get a good message you need to make Judaism look bad, then you don’t have a good message.”
What’s behind the New Testament?
There is abundant documentation of the intertestamental period. We just haven't read it.
The religious world we know was formed between 250 and 50 B.C.E.
“One second-century pagan critic of Christianity was willing to tolerate everything else about Christians if they would only worship the gods.”
Take & Read: New Testament
Matthew L. Skinner recommends the best recently published books in his field.
Novel exegesis
The lines between sacred history and contemporary life are wonderfully, miraculously blurred.
Reading Backwards, by Richard B. Hays
Richard Hays has said for years that he's working on something about "echoes of scripture in the Gospels." But life intervened, so he has produced this slim volume as an appetizer.
In The Sea and the Mirror, W.H. Auden audaciously wrote new poems in the voices of each character in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, all set after the action of the play concludes. The result is a work both wonderfully reverent and plainly modern—you might even call it modern in its reverence. I would have hoped that anyone presuming to put out a book called A New New Testament would borrow Auden’s approach and give us a genuine literary and theological invention.