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When I was a kid we celebrated the “Battle of Jericho” when “the walls come a’tumblin’ down” as a great victory of God that shows how he will bring victory to those who are faithful to him.

The Tabernacle, the Ark of the Covenant, and the Shema!

Here are three questions I've received recently on Paul's views of Christ, Jesus's view of himself, and the marital status of his mother.

Some really important words tend to become more vague and generalized to the point where they don’t mean what they used to.

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I’m not a professional linguist, but it does seem to me that language tends to get more casual, sloppy, and imprecise over time, that words that once had a very specific meaning often become more generalized and widely applied to things that are similar b…

Here I continue my thread on interesting aspects of the Hebrew Bible not known to most people I meet at a cocktail party.

In the current thread (threading in and out of other posts on other things) I have been discussing some of the most interesting features of the Hebrew Bible by (re-)presenting side boxes found in my book The Bible: A Historical and Literary Introduction,…

I continue to receive significant questions from readers on key issues connected with the study of the New Testament.

In the 1960s my grandmother was a big believer in faith-healer (and later prosperity-preacher) Oral Roberts.

Yesterday I began to discuss the one Christian forger who got caught red handed who then tried to get off the hook.

I have long argued that contrary to what you may hear a lot of people say (especially New Testament scholars!)

Let’s suppose Jesus was indeed a carpenter.

In my post yesterday I made an off-the-cuff reference to the Catholic doctrine that Mary was a "perpetual virgin," and indicated I'd explain more about that and related issues in a later post.

It seems to be virtually impossible for modern people to imagine what it was like for someone to live in radically different contexts – say, Jesus, in rural Galilee 2000 years ago.

Gold and Platinum members, we've set the date and time for our next monthly Gold Q&A.

Was “Yahweh” actually the personal name of the God of Israel?

I continue to get very good questions about all sorts of things we deal with on the blog.

I sometimes get asked why the Blessed Virgin Mary (allegedly) appears to people all the time but not Jesus.

Not to be the dog across the street who won’t stop barking all night, but….

The Flood of Noah is one of the most familiar stories of the Bible.

Was Noah’s flood meant to destroy the giants born to women seduced by angelic beings?

I have been talking about Jesus' life before he was baptized, the so-called "Lost Years."

About a week ago, out of the blue, I was contacted by the producer of James Carville's podcast/youtube channel to do an interview.

I continue here with events from Jesus’ life before he started his public ministry that I think we can treat as historical.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the social/cultural/economic/historical context of Jesus lately, and reading a good bit on what we know about Galilee from the time.

Platinum members, we've got our next quarterly lecture on the calendar.

For the first time in my life, I’m not really sure what I'm going to be arguing in the book I’m working on..

Now that I've started talking about the Hebrew Bible on the blog, I think maybe I'll keep talking about it for a bit.

Some blog readers have requested more posts on the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

In my previous post I began to argue that an economic system is not inherently good or evil.

It is dead easy to attack the fundamental principles and historical practices of capitalism on religious, and particularly Christian, grounds.

Gold and Platinum Members, our September Q&A is coming up.

Here are some spot-on questions from readers with (spotty?)

I have recently finished republishing a series of posts from years ago that explored the tradition that Peter and Cephas were in fact two different people.