Locating Memory between Story and History – By Mark McEntire
Mark McEntire on Jacob L. Wright’s David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory The field of biblical studies has yet to escape
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Scriptural Texts
Relaxing the Lines between Redaction and Reception – By Andrew Perrin
Andrew Perrin on Devorah Dimant and Reinhard G. Kratz (eds.) Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible Among the many lessons the Dead Sea Scrolls have
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Many Roads Lead from Arimathea – By Ian Boxall
Ian Boxall on William John Lyons’ Joseph of Arimathea Whatever happened to Joseph of Arimathea? Appearing fleetingly in the gospel narratives of Jesus’s burial, he
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Can the Bible Survive Science? – By John Walton
John Walton on Mark Harris’s The Nature of Creation: Examining the Bible and Science In 2003, an international research group successfully mapped the human genome,
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The Arabic Bible before Islam – By Clare Wilde
Clare Wilde on Sidney H. Griffith’s The Bible in Arabic Non-Muslims, including Jews and Christians, have spoken Arabic since before the revelation of
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The Qur’an according to Itself – By Gabriel Reynolds
Gabriel Reynolds on Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau’s Le Coran par lui-même Early Muslims took to naming their scripture the Qurʾan because of the passages therein
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Jesus vs. Judaism … Again – By Eva Mroczek
Eva Mroczek on David A. deSilva’s The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha In 1973,
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Found in Translation – By John Hobbins
John Hobbins on Robert Alter’s translation with commentary of Joshua-2 Kings Robert Alter has been Englishing the Hebrew Bible to wide acclaim for
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Crumbling Criteria: Constructing an Authentic Jesus – By Helen Bond
Helen Bond on Chris Keith and Anthony Le Donne’s Jesus Criteria and the Demise of Authenticity Historical Jesus work used to be easy. Cocooned
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The Birth of Academic Biblical Studies – By Angela Roskop Erisman
Angela Roskop Erisman on Magne Sæbø, ed. Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The History of its Interpretation, Volume III/1: The Nineteenth Century — a Century of Modernism
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