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September 2015

September 22, 2015

Scripture and (Ancient) Cosmology (RJS)

The Bible is a collection of ancient texts. The most recent, by any reckoning, were...

May 2015

May 07, 2015

A Chosen People!? (RJS)

The second chapter of R. W. L. Moberly's Old Testament Theology: Reading the Hebrew Bible...

March 2015

March 11, 2015

Three Ways to Avoid Reading the Old Testament

By Jayson Bradley, where you can read the full essay: What would you add to...

November 2014

November 17, 2014

Matthew as an Annotated Study Bible

If you read the Gospel of Mark and then Matthew and compare them when they...

November 10, 2014

“Too Scandalous for Direct Speech”

If I could convince ordinary Bible readers of one thing it would be this: look up...

November 09, 2014

Reading the Bible vs. Being Read by the Bible

This set of images comes from a wonderful article by James Bryan Smith, at Friends...

November 03, 2014

Reading the Bible Backwards

Historians want to know what happened, if possible why it happened, and then they want...

September 2014

September 15, 2014

Does Personal Bible Reading Destroy the Church? (Paul Penley)

Bible Reading Destroys the Church (Part 1 of 2), by Paul Penley (contact info at...

August 2014

August 20, 2014

The Emperor and Inerrancy

On the inerrancy posts I've had a number ask me to explain what I think....

December 2013

December 11, 2013

Reading the NT in its Galaxy

Brent Sandy's sketch of reading the NT in the context of its own world of...

December 09, 2013

Reading the Bible in its Galaxy

John Walton, this time with Brent Sandy, has done it again. We have a new...

September 2013

September 08, 2013

Who Was Moses’ Successor?

Nope, not Joshua. Yes, of course, he was, but there's another successor to Moses in...

September 06, 2013

A Healing Word from On High

Any reading of the stories about Saul leads to a basic storyline: a handsome and...

March 2013

March 12, 2013

The Brownson Challenge

At the heart of the traditional view of same-sex relations is "gender complementarity." That is,...

January 2013

January 03, 2013

The Bible Is Not the Center (RJS)

The Bible has always played an unimpeachable role in Christianity ... It is not, however,...

December 2012

December 18, 2012

Promise and Fulfillment? (RJS)

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the...

December 11, 2012

Indispensable but Insufficient! (RJS)

The second essay in the new book by Marc Zvi Brettler (Brandeis University), Peter Enns...

December 04, 2012

Restoring Theology to Biblical Theology

The problem is that Old and New Testament scholars, almost uniformly, ignore (systematic) theology in...

December 03, 2012

Biblical Theology and Canon

In the late 80s and early 90s perhaps no Old Testament scholar had built around...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

NT Wright’s “Worldview-Story” as Biblical Theology

In a spectrum from history to systematic theology, where does someone like NT Wright fit?...

November 29, 2012

My Bible – A Jew’s Perspective (RJS)

The first essay in the new book by Marc Zvi Brettler (Brandeis University), Peter Enns...

November 28, 2012

Biblical Theology as Salvation History

How does one read the Bible "biblically," that is how does one read it right?...

November 26, 2012

When is Theology Truly “Biblical”

Everyone claims their theology is biblical. Which means "biblical" is used by everyone and so...

November 15, 2012

The Roles of Biblical Criticism (RJS)

The introduction to the new book by Marc Brettler (Brandeis University), Peter Enns (Eastern University)...

November 01, 2012

Misreading the Bible because we are Western

I speak, of course, only of Westerners. Ah-ha moments in Bible reading come to all...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Books You Should Know

My desk is like a revolving door. Books land on it, I have to discern...

October 11, 2012

Do you need a coffee or a nap?

From Vanessa Gregory: Both caffeine and sleep have restorative properties. So should you sip or...

September 2012

September 22, 2012

The so-called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife: Modern Forgery?

Francis Watson, professor of New Testament at Durham University, has an exceptionally careful study contending...

August 2012

August 24, 2012

My Favorite Lecture Ever

I return to the seminary classroom this Fall at Northern Seminary. Thinking about a return...

August 08, 2012

More than Story?

Leslie Leyland Fields, at CT, has an article that pushes back against reading the Bible...