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February 2021

February 13, 2021

Impeaching Elisha

There are a great many false prophets around in our time, so many that the...

February 12, 2021

Music, the Bible, and Grief

I wish I could find a recording of Amy Beach's work "Jephthah's Daughter." That story...

February 08, 2021

The Historicity of the Last Supper: What Jesus Meant

There are two opposite tendencies in how the Last Supper is viewed. Some dismiss it...

February 06, 2021

Conservative and Liberal Biblical Scholarship

In a recent blog post, Ian Paul pushes back on some points John Barton makes...

February 05, 2021

Updating My Metrical Psalms Activity

Yesterday was the day in my Bible and music class when we focus on metrical...

February 02, 2021

Do Not Destroy

We have all been warned about YouTube comments, right? But I did come across one...

January 2021

January 31, 2021

Psalm 114: Suzanne Haik-Vantoura, Cantillation Marks, and Gregorian Chant

In recent years Bob MacDonald has played a particularly active role in drawing attention to...

January 28, 2021

Genesis and Ovid’s Metamorphoses

I did in fact end up thinking about how much the view of creation that...

January 23, 2021

John the Baptist, the Historical Jesus, and Q #CFP

The call for papers for the Society of Biblical Literature 2021 annual meeting is now...

January 18, 2021

What Jesus Learned from Women Cover Art Revealed

I am so thrilled to be able to share the amazing artwork that Macey Dickerson...

January 15, 2021

#JohnTheBaptist Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting Day 4

We began the final day of the Enoch Seminar conference on John the Baptist with...

January 14, 2021

#JohnTheBaptist Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting Day 3

Day Three of the Enoch Seminar conference on John the Baptist began once again with...

January 13, 2021

#JohnTheBaptist Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting Day 2

These are my notes from and thoughts about the second day of the Enoch Seminar...

January 12, 2021

John the Baptist Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting Day 1

Yesterday was the first day of the Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting conference taking place online...

January 08, 2021

You Shall Go Out With Joy

I cannot hear these words, "You shall go out with joy," without thinking of the...

December 2020

December 31, 2020

2020 Hindsight

“Welcome back my friends to the year that never ends...” It is time to bring...

December 27, 2020

Jesus and Those With Him

I am puzzled why most commentators regard the reference in Mark 3:21 as being to...

December 21, 2020

Supper’s Ready Live

I have blogged about the Genesis song Supper's Ready before (links to those previous posts...

December 19, 2020

Interview with Steve Wiggins

All readers of biblioblogs presumably know Steve Wiggins' name, and those who publish academic books...

December 17, 2020

What Jesus Learned from Mary

I thought about calling this blog post something more controversial, like "Jesus did you learn...

December 06, 2020

Is God Love?

We tend to focus, when thinking about doctrines of afterlife and eternal punishment, about what...

December 05, 2020

Is John’s Christology the Lowest in the New Testament?

I am serious about what I suggest in the title of this blog post, even...

November 2020

November 21, 2020

History and Creative Writing

Imagine you find the following page that has become detached from a book in your...

November 14, 2020

Reading the Bible while White

Biblical scholar Ekaputra Tupamahu has written an insightful article about whiteness in our field. I will...

October 2020

October 25, 2020

Statement of Faith for Biblical Literalists

Statement of Faith for Biblical Literalists ARTICLE I: One day = six days Genesis 1:1-2:3...

October 24, 2020

More Bible and Music

Let me begin with two items of news from around blogs. One is the discovery...

October 19, 2020

Literalists aren’t Literally Literalists

There are things I've said in the past about this topic that are worth sharing...

October 17, 2020

The Whore of Babylon on the Phone

I get unsolicited phone calls and emails all the time, but yesterday's was a first....

October 16, 2020

#CFP Call for papers on the encounter between Saul and the medium of Endor for Hebrew Studies 2021 volume

Hebrew Studies announces a call for papers on the encounter between Saul and the medium...

October 15, 2020

The Aims and Ending of Luke-Acts

A Facebook friend asked why Luke-Acts is dated so late by some scholars, and why...

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