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March 2015

March 05, 2015

Does Historicity Matter?

Yes. Of course historicity matters. My own approach to scripture is founded in the historical...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

The Earth Really Isn’t Flat: An Evangelical Critique of K.A. Kitchen

Last month, I wrote a three-part series titled "Don't Do Bible (but if you do,...

February 03, 2015

Stories of Faith and Trickery: Genesis as History (pt. 2)

Something exciting happened to the field of biblical studies beginning in the 1960’s. Until that...

February 02, 2015

Stories of Faith and Trickery: Genesis as History? (pt. 1)

With its stories of incest, jealousy, faith, and trickery, the Book of Genesis is filled...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Mosaic Authorship: Creating History, Creating Torah

I'm currently in the process of trying to put together an introduction to a historical...

January 24, 2015

William Schniedewind on Scribalism and the Development of the Bible

How did we get the Bible? Back in 2004, UCLA professor of biblical studies and...

January 24, 2015

Critical Studies Versus Apologetics: My Own Personal Journey

I have a great love for critical scholarship, but like any real love, mine took...

January 11, 2015

The Bible Tells Me So: Book Review with Helpful Links

Recently, Dan Ellsworth blogging at Mormon Mentality: Thoughts and Asides by Peculiar People wrote a...

December 2014

December 16, 2014

Biblical Archaeology Review

The most recent edition of Biblical Archaeology Review took note of the blog entry on...

December 06, 2014

God, Gods, and Goddesses: Making Sense of the Elohim in Genesis

The Hebrew noun ’elohim can be a bit confusing. Technically, ’elohim is a masculine plural...

November 2014

November 09, 2014

The Neo-Documentary Hypothesis

I don’t exaggerate when I state that Dr. Jeffrey Stackert has produced one of the...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Reading the Bible Critically and Religiously: Interview with Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler

Brigham Young University’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship continues to offer impressive...

July 2014

July 10, 2014

Scripture, Translation, and Belief: the LDS Book of Abraham

I had the opportunity to sit down with Doug Fabrizo in a live in-studio discussion...

April 2014

April 22, 2014

New “Genesis Team” Podcast: Abraham, Lot, and the Cities of Sodom & Gomorrah

In this episode, the Mormon Matters “Genesis Team”–David Bokovoy, Tom Roberts, andBrian Hauglid–join host Dan Wotherspoon for a...

April 16, 2014

Yahweh Elohim in Genesis 2-3: A Response to Opponents of Documentary Analysis

I’m grateful that my book Authoring the Old Testament has sparked some interesting discussions. As...

January 2014

January 26, 2014

The Death of the Documentary Hypothesis

I’m surprised how often I read online someone making the assertion that the Documentary Hypothesis...