The Bible Made Strange: Sarah Ruden’s Four New Gospels
Scot McKnight on Sarah Ruden People think they know how a specific verse should sound. Such opinions flow freely from those who have
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New Testament
St. Paul and Islam: A Contemporary Perspective
Matthew V. Novenson on Shabbir Akhtar In this remarkable new commentary on the Letter of Paul to the Galatians, Shabbir Akhtar says that
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Simonides’ New Testament Papyri: Their Production and Purported Provenance
Tommy Wasserman on the most notorious New Testament forger In 2014, when the so-called Gospel of Jesus Wife had been exposed as a
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MRBlog | Is Hillary Clinton a Heretic?
By Thomas J. Whitley Hillary Clinton is a heretic. Or, at least this is what CNN’s Religion Editor Daniel Burke would have
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A New Synoptic Gospel? – by Sarah E. Rollens
Sarah E. Rollens on James Barker’s John’s Use of Matthew For someone outside the field, New Testament scholarship can occasionally appear to be
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Grace and Transformation – By Susan Eastman
Susan Eastman on John Barclay’s Paul and the Gift In a remarkable movie called “The Fisher King” (1991), Robin Williams plays a homeless
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Spectres of the Real Paul and the Prospect of Pauline Scholarship – By T.J. Lang
T.J. Lang on Benjamin L. White’s Remembering Paul The fashionable dictum among historians today is that biographies do not repristinate their subjects “as
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How to Read the Bible and Still be a Christian by John Dominic Crossan
An excerpt from John Dominic Crossan’s latest book. [Excerpted from How to Read the Bible and Still be a Christian by John Dominic Crossan, published
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John Dominic Crossan talks with Joseph Kelly
Joseph Kelly talks with John Dominic Crossan about his new book How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian. Crossan is Professor
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MRBlog | Why How We Define Religion Matters
By Thomas J. Whitley The Washington Post has a new venture called Acts of Faith. I was alerted to this via a Twitter notification
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