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April 2015

April 30, 2015

Marcus Borg on How to Save the Bible

What are we to make of the Bible? It is a historical product that lacks...

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 18, 2015

Historical versus Historicity

There's been some question as of late on the use of terms such as "historical"...

February 16, 2015

Exilic Absorption of the Female Goddess in Deutero-Isaiah

Despite his original divine masculinity, the anthropomorphic Yahweh was eventually emasculated in later biblical and...

February 14, 2015

Biblical Scholars: Preoccupied With the Reconstruction of History

From archeology, to literary criticism, to folklore analysis, modern biblical scholars use a variety of...

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...

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

Minimalists versus Maximalists and Contemporary Scholarship

For some reason, I have recently received a few messages from readers interested in where...

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 20, 2015

Don’t Do Bible (but if you do, do it right) part 3

It’s hard for many Bible-believing Jews and Christians to learn that their sacred book lacks...

January 20, 2015

Don’t Do Bible (but if you do, do it right) part 2

It’s true. Some conservative scholars interested in Bible will pursue ancillary degrees in Near Eastern...

January 19, 2015

Don’t Do Bible! (but if you do, do it right!)

Many years ago now (in fact, more than I’d like to admit), I was approached...

January 15, 2015

The Bible: No Sir, That’s Not History

So why is it wrong to refer to biblical authors as “historians”? After all, they...

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...

January 03, 2015

The Bible and the Ancient Near East: A Note on Methodology

The Bible was not written in a historical vacuum. It was produced in a world...

January 01, 2015

Biblical Prophets as Checks and Balance

It's essential for readers of the Bible to be aware of the distinctions between ancient...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Social Justice and Biblical Prophecy

Reading through each of the prophetic texts of the Bible, the common denominator in terms...

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...

January 24, 2014

The Creation of the “Helper”: The Importance of Historical Criticism for Religious Readers

I need to begin this post with a frank confession. I self-identify as a male-feminist. ...

January 22, 2014

Worshipping an Anthropomorphic God

The term “anthropomorphism” refers to the attribution of human form or other characteristics to anything other than a...