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June 25, 2025

Recent Developments at Laodicea– Part Three

Laodicea is an ongoing project, and the latest development is fascinating. It involves Trajan's provision...

June 24, 2025

Recent Developments at Laodicea– Part Two

Turns out the agora had a beautiful colored wall, as we have mentioned before. But...

June 23, 2025

Recent Developments at Laodicea– Part One

We've chronicled the ongoing archaeological work at Laodicea which is so impressive (shout out to...

June 21, 2025

Colossae— Can You Dig It?

Below you see a map which highlights the three major cities of the Lycus valley...

June 20, 2025

Life in Rome Recreated

While this is not perfect, it does give us a glimpse of various aspects...

June 19, 2025

You Can’t Domesticate Those Critters

This is why raccoons and frogs are not circus animal. You can't train them.

June 17, 2025

Null and Void, Mostly Void

Of course they could have been thinking about Genesis 1, and creation.

June 16, 2025

A Dog Gone Good Time

Dogs are alright, but they are too high maintenance, unlike cats. Someone should invent Pampers...

June 15, 2025

Wisdom Literature– Part Eight

Many of the contrasts in Proverbs are based in nature of course, because the sage...

June 14, 2025

Wisdom Literature– Part Seven

Prov. 25 begins with a statement telling us that the scribes of King Hezekiah (late...

June 13, 2025

Wisdom Literature–Part Six

Some of the proverbs involve interesting analogies, for instance Prov. 19.12-13-- "A roar like a...

June 11, 2025

Wisdom Literature– Part Five

The second half of the book of Proverbs makes quite clear the international character of...

June 10, 2025

Wisdom Literature– Part Four

As Robert Alter points out, in Prov. 1-9 wisdom comes in the form of long...

June 09, 2025

Wisdom Literature– Part Three

The Woman Wisdom poem in Prov. 8 takes an unexpected turn at the end where...

May 2025

May 23, 2025

A Brief Hiatus

Dr Witherington will be away from his blog from May 23rd to June 9th in...

May 22, 2025

Mission Absolutely Impossible: Final Wreckoning

The Mission Impossible films came long after the TV program of the same...

May 22, 2025

Wisdom Literature–Part Two

One of the best and most interesting translations of the Wisdom Literature is Robert Alter's. ...

May 20, 2025

Wisdom Literature– Part One

Some of the most neglected literature in all of Scripture is Wisdom literature, which includes...

May 17, 2025

FIVE MAJOR EXEGETICAL MISTAKES THAT ARE ALL TOO COMMON

1.READING OLD TESTAMENT TEXTS AS IF THEY WERE NT TEXTS. TO GIVE BUT TWO...

May 15, 2025

New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity– Vol 11 Part2

A very good illustration of the value of this series is James Harrison's discussion of...

May 14, 2025

New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity Vol. 11 A-B

There are few series in Biblical Studies that have gone through a more interesting pilgrimage...

May 12, 2025

Why Mark did not End at Mk. 16.8

Here is a limestone inscription about the Sergius Paulus family, who were from Pisidian Antioch,...

May 11, 2025

Mother’s Day

My mom was a remarkable woman. She was a college graduate from the school that...

May 10, 2025

Imagine seeing the Ancients in Person– with AIs Help

The problem I have with the following is they made the mistake of giving various...

May 09, 2025

On the Asbury Awakening of 2023

We are now fortunate enough to have several good accounts of the remarkable outpouring of...

May 07, 2025

John Wesley’s Famous Sermon on Money

The Sermons of John Wesley - Sermon 50 The Use Of Money "I say unto...

May 06, 2025

The Zondervan Compact Lexicon

Sometimes small is better. And that is true when it comes to lexicons you can...

May 05, 2025

A Fine Article on the Hagia Sophia

This article appeared a while back on the CNN website. Hagia Sophia: Secrets of...

May 04, 2025

Thunderbolts— the New Avengers

Marvel movies whether on big screens or little of late have been less...

May 03, 2025

The Problem with AI— The Temptation is too Great

I was grading doctoral seminar papers which I had asked to be in Adobe Acrobat...

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