Books In Review: Luke Timothy Johnson’s scholarly life The prolific biblical scholar offers an engaging account of his career—and of the spiritual journey that helped shape it. by David Heim June 22, 2022
Books In Review: A New Testament that connects the heart languages of First Nations people The translators hope that “the colonial language that was forced upon us can now serve our people in a good way.” by Catherine Aldred May 3, 2022
Interview Luke Timothy Johnson wants us to read Paul in all his complexity “What advantage do we gain by possessing a Pauline theology that lies outside and above his writings?” Nijay K. Gupta interviews Luke Timothy Johnson November 4, 2021
Books In Review: Understanding the biblical Herods Bruce Chilton moves Herod the Great and Herod Antipas from backdrop to center stage. by Tony Jones October 13, 2021
From the Editor/Publisher When goodness is also lovely The New Testament has two words for “good.” Knowing the difference between them can help us build a better society. by Peter W. Marty August 12, 2021
Books In Review: Deconstructing the Republican Jesus Biblical scholar Tony Keddie shows how the conservative movement enlisted the Bible to help its cause. by Aaron Klink May 27, 2021
Books In Review: 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. by George C. Heider November 24, 2020
Books In Review: Interpreting Jesus’ healings as a conflict with purity laws is dead wrong Jesus’ conflict, Matthew Thiessen argues, was with the forces of death. by Greg Carey July 22, 2020
Books In Review: Candida Moss asks what bodily resurrection means How early Christians thought about bodies and how we do by Trish Beckman October 7, 2019
Guest Post The essential challenge of anti-Judaism in the Bible Do anti-Semitic appeals to the Bible always constitute an abuse of scripture? Would that it were so simple. by Greg Carey May 9, 2019
Interview Knowing and preaching the Jewish Jesus “If to get a good message you need to make Judaism look bad, then you don’t have a good message.” Elizabeth Palmer interviews Amy-Jill Levine March 13, 2019
Books In Review: What’s behind the New Testament? There is abundant documentation of the intertestamental period. We just haven't read it. by Tony Jones October 16, 2017
Critical Essay 200 years that shaped Judaism, Jesus, and all that followed The religious world we know was formed between 250 and 50 B.C.E. by Philip Jenkins September 26, 2017
Interview What made early Christians a peculiar people? “One second-century pagan critic of Christianity was willing to tolerate everything else about Christians if they would only worship the gods.” David Heim interviews Larry W. Hurtado March 29, 2017
Books Take & Read: New Testament Matthew L. Skinner recommends the best recently published books in his field. selected by Matthew L. Skinner September 26, 2016