New Testament

Two new ones by Susan Hylen and Nijay Gupta offer correctives many churches have not yet internalized.

The prolific biblical scholar offers an engaging account of his career—and of the spiritual journey that helped shape it.

The translators hope that “the colonial language that was forced upon us can now serve our people in a good way.”

“What advantage do we gain by possessing a Pauline theology that lies outside and above his writings?”

Bruce Chilton moves Herod the Great and Herod Antipas from backdrop to center stage.

The New Testament has two words for “good.” Knowing the difference between them can help us build a better society.

Biblical scholar Tony Keddie shows how the conservative movement enlisted the Bible to help its cause.

Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler show how multiple traditions arise when different people read the same text.

Jesus’ conflict, Matthew Thiessen argues, was with the forces of death.

How early Christians thought about bodies and how we do

Do antisemitic 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.”

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.”

Matthew L. Skinner recommends the best recently published books in his field.

The lines between sacred history and contemporary life are wonderfully, miraculously blurred.

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.