Our Beans

In the previous post , I briefly laid out the case made by some scholars for positing a knowledge--even an intimate knowledge--of the text o...

No scroll of Esther was discovered among the 220 or so biblical scrolls recovered in the eleven caves around Qumran, making it the only book...

In my previous post , I quoted Melito's OT canon list from the late second century CE and discussed his unusual order for the Pentateuch...

I see Google now offers a nice preview of my book, Hebrew Scripture in Patristic Biblical Theory . Those of you who have held off on buying ...

The earliest preserved list of books of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (not counting the baraita in Baba Bathra, the date of which is debat...

You know how I like to see the use of a particular word throughout the Bible, even at the very basic level of where it shows up (example h...

I just noticed that the online program is available for the SBL meeting this Fall in Chicago. I'll be in two sessions, as follows. For ...