Our Beans

My article on the Aquila fragments from the Cairo Genizah has just been published in the Journal of Jewish Studies . I reproduce the absrac...

Well, I guess it depends on how you define a lie.  Genesis 3 tells us that the snake was crafty, and he was obviously attempting to trick th...

To some degree, trying to convince others that the Bible is reliable represents an effort to get people to trust us, to believe that we hav...

This is sort of strange. In a very helpful article  ( full-text ), the classics scholar Paul B. Harvey, Jr. , and the Hebrew Bible scholar...

Some time ago, I posted on the word 'disciple' (μαθητής) in the Bible, noting that it does not appear in the LXX, and in the NT it ...

In the past week, as I prepare to teach a session on the Dead Sea Scrolls, I've read two recent books about them. The first was John C...

Great reflections from David Williams on the vocation of the Christian scholar: part 1 , part 2 , wrap-up . The whole series is well worth r...