Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Home
Progressive Christian

Bible

Select a Category 1 Corinthians 1 John 1 Peter 1 Samuel 1 Thessalonians 1 Timothy 2 Corinthians 2 Kings 2 Peter 2 Samuel 2 Thessalonians 2 Timothy academia Acts of the Apostles afterlife Akhaten Alcatraz American Academy of Religion Amos Anglican Arabic Aramaic archaeology art artificial intelligence astronomy atheism atonement Babylon 5 Baptists Battlestar Galactica Bible Biblical Studies Carnival biblioblogging Black Mirror Blade Runner Book of Job book review Buddhism Call for Papers China Christianity Christmas Christology Chronicles Coptic creation Daniel Deuteronomy Doctor Who Dune Easter Ecclesiastes economics education Eldad Keynan Enoch Seminar Ephesians eschatology Esther Evangelicals evolution Exodus Expanse Ezekiel Ezra fantasy Fringe fundamentalism Galatians games Ge'ez genealogy Genesis Gnosticism Gospel of Jesus' Wife Gospel of John Gospel of Judas Gospel of Luke Gospel of Mark Gospel of Matthew Gospel of Peter Gospel of Thomas Greek Harry Potter Hebrew Hebrews Hinduism historical Jesus history Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Holidays horror Hosea humor incarnation India inerrancy information literacy inspirational Intelligent Design Ireland Isaiah Islam Israel Italy James Jeremiah John the Baptist Jonah Joshua Judaism Jude Judges Judith Lamentations languages Latin Leviticus libraries literature Lord of the Rings LOST Mandaeans Mandaic memes Methodism Micah monotheism morality Mormons movies music mythicism NASSCAL Nehemiah new perspective New Testament news Numbers Orthodox paganism panentheism pantheism Patheos Paul and his letters Pentecostals Philippians Philippians 2:6-11 philosophy physics Planet of the Apes podcast politics Progressive Christianity Protestantism Proverbs Psalms pseudoscience racism religion Revelation Roman Catholicism Romania Romans Ruth scams science science fiction Secret Gospel of Mark Society of Biblical Literature Song of Songs Star Trek Star Wars Stargate Swahili Syriac Taoism technology Terminator The Handmaid's Tale The Hobbit The Matrix theodicy theology theory Timeless Titus tomb Torchwood travel TRON Uncategorized United Kingdom Westworld X-Files young-earth creationism Zechariah

Select a Month October 2026 September 2026 August 2026 July 2026 June 2026 May 2026 April 2026 March 2026 February 2026 January 2026 December 2025 November 2025 October 2025 September 2025 July 2025 June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 February 2025 January 2025 December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 February 2024 January 2024 December 2023 November 2023 October 2023 September 2023 August 2023 July 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 February 2007 January 2001

November 2019

November 20, 2019

ReligionProf Podcast with Ruth Hayhoe

In the ReligionProf Podcast episode embedded above, I talk to Prof. Ruth Hayhoe, a specialist...

October 2019

October 20, 2019

All Things Bright and Biblical: Biblical Studies as Religious Studies and as Theology

Let me start this post with a quote from an alumnus of the Religion program...

October 11, 2019

The Bible Is Not Written To You

Fred Clark sums up well one of the biggest problems with the way that many...

August 2019

August 14, 2019

The Bible and Music in Children’s Songs

Another topic that I cover in my class on the Bible and Music is the...

July 2019

July 11, 2019

Can Fundamentalists Understand the Bible?

This blog post started out as being about the old canard that non-Christians supposedly cannot...

May 2019

May 20, 2019

Challenge to Fundamentalist Bible Readers

I was contacted recently by someone who was looking for a meme that illustrated how...

May 04, 2019

Canon #CFP x2 (Bible and Beyond)

Two calls for papers and several other items related to canon came to my attention...

March 2019

March 20, 2019

ReligionProf Podcast with Zondervan Bible

I hope you enjoy this conversation with Melinda Bouma and Bob Gaudet who work for...

December 2018

December 20, 2018

Bible, It’s Cold Outside

I've followed the recent discussions about the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with interest. But...

December 12, 2018

ReligionProf Podcast with Karen Keen

This week's episode of the ReligionProf Podcast features Karen Keen, who blogs at Reverent Sexuality....

November 2018

November 26, 2018

Doctor Who: The Witchfinders

Episode 8 of Jodie Whittaker‘s first season as the Doctor, “The Witchfinders,” revisits many familiar...

November 06, 2018

#CFP Bible and Science Fiction

I would have been delighted no matter what by the launch of the new Journal of...

October 2018

October 20, 2018

Greenish Darth Vader and the Myth of an Unchanging Original Text

Another illustration that emerged from my interaction with students at McCormick Theological Seminary had to...

September 2018

September 08, 2018

Inspiration and Revelation

The usual way for discussion of the Bible as “inspired,” “infallible,” or “inerrant” to proceed...

August 2018

August 21, 2018

The Bible Shows Us How to Do Theology, Rather than Telling Us What to Believe

In a recent blog post, Pete Enns wrote: Not all biblical writers were on the...

August 13, 2018

Gaming against Biblical Literalism

I think that one of the most effective tools to combat the false notion that...

July 2018

July 05, 2018

The Bible is not Alone

It started with me saying that “the Bible is not in the Bible” in my...

June 2018

June 14, 2018

Representation in Scholarship #womenalsoknowbible #womenalsoknowreligion #readwomen

Seeing the Inside Higher Ed piece about the Twitter hashtag #womenalsoknowhistory, which then led me to...

June 07, 2018

The Bible: Rated “E” for Everyone?!

I came across the shirt below, and felt I had to blog about it: I'm...

June 05, 2018

Fundamentalism and Fake News

On the same basic subject as another post a few days ago, a recent study...

June 01, 2018

Conversation with a Colleague about Inerrancy (Part 3)

Here is the final installment in this series of posts allowing you to listen in...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

Conversation with a Colleague about Inerrancy (Part 2)

Here is some more of my conversation with a colleague about inerrancy: COLLEAGUE Thoughts on...

May 28, 2018

Defending the Bible from Inerrancy (or vice versa)

I have been blogging quite a bit about inerrancy, as you may have noticed. That...

May 26, 2018

700 Names of Jesus?

Someone in my Sunday school class told me that they heard recently that there were...

May 20, 2018

#MeToo #TimesUp and Jesus

I am delighted at the prospect that, as I teach my course on the historical...

May 10, 2018

Samson and Cain (songs by Madi Blair)

I had some really impressive creative products emerge from my class on the Bible and...

April 2018

April 17, 2018

What the Bible Says about X

Fred Clark wrote a helpful post about "concordanceism" a while back. Here is an excerpt:...

April 14, 2018

Loving the Bible

Mark Bilby writes: It is precisely because I respect these texts that I let them...

January 2018

January 06, 2018

Can an AI Write a Better Bible?

The author of a recent article was much more impressed than I was with an AI's vaguely...

December 2017

December 22, 2017

Teaching Information Literacy Using the Bible (or, Is Jesus’ Birth in Bethlehem “Fake News”?)

It has been a long while since I radically revised my one-semester course on the...

Related posts from Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. McGrath

Family

Cinematic Bible Time

Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. McGrath

Family

Sound Doctrine in the Bible

Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. McGrath

Family

Same-Sex Relationships and the Bible: A Conversation

Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. McGrath

Family

ChatGPT Writes Sermons, Translates Aramaic

Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. McGrath

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Subscription Support Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In

Follow Patheos