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Biblical Studies
Interviews with scholars of the Bible about their new books.
March 29, 2026
The Song of Songs
What is the Song of Songs about? Christopher Mitchell, in his Concordia Commentary, explains it as Solomon's most beautiful poem, containing a profoun…
March 25, 2026
Hope for a New David in the Psalter's Narrative Impulse
Does the Psalter have a unified theme or message? Davy Ellison says, “Yes!” In his new book Hope for a New David in the Psalter's Narrative Impulse: R…
March 18, 2026
The Bible Says So
The Bible is arguably the world’s most influential book, but do we really know what it says? Every day across social media and in homes, businesses, a…
February 16, 2026
What Animals Teach Us about Families
Reading the Bible and rabbinic literature to reimagine the bonds between animals. Moving beyond debates about the ethics of animal consumption to focu…
January 10, 2026
Job: Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary
The Book of Job confronts the troubling issues that life throws at us as we try to live in trusting obedience to God. How do we live in relation to Go…
January 6, 2026
Ecclesiastes and the Search for Meaning
Ecclesiastes has long been viewed as the great existential work of the Hebrew Bible, containing the famous cry "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." As…
December 28, 2025
Sarcasm in Paul's Letters
In this recent monograph Sarcasm in Paul's Letters (Cambridge University Press 2023, Matthew Pawlak offers the first treatment of sarcasm in New Testa…
December 24, 2025
Citifying Jesus
Religion and urban life are the most successful strategies of handling, enhancing, and capitalizing on human sociability. By integrating religious stu…
December 23, 2025
Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel
The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel breathes new life into the biblical narrative by incorporating the latest discoveries from archaeology, Near Ea…
December 22, 2025
The Man of Opened Eye
Is it possible to read the Balaam narrative of Numbers 22-24 cohesively? Ben Wiggershaus says, “Yes,” and part of his solution is in reading the Balaa…
December 17, 2025
Prayer in the Ancient World Vol.1
Prayer in the Ancient World is the resource on prayer in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. With over 350 entries it showcases a robust selectio…
December 11, 2025
Ezra-Nehemiah
Ezra-Nehemiah: Retrograde Revolution (Maggid, 2025) takes its readers on a literary tour of an era in which cohesiveness between Jews in Israel and th…
December 3, 2025
Reading the Bible with AI?
Rebind combines reading with AI-chat to deepen learning and simulate the experience of conversing with some of the greatest scholars and thinkers. Wit…
November 25, 2025
Explorations in the Second Christian Century
As allegiance to Jesus Christ spread across the Roman Empire in the second century, writings, practices, and ideas erupted in a creative maelstrom. Ma…
November 24, 2025
Inviting God In
In this episode Rabbi Marc Katz is in discussion with Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin about his new book Inviting God In: A Guide to Jewish Prayer (Central Confe…
November 4, 2025
The Gospel of John
Throughout the centuries and into the present day, the Gospel of John has indelibly shaped Christian theology and thinkers in significant ways, but ma…
October 20, 2025
The Biblical Hero
Today I talked to Elliott Rabin about his book The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility (Jewish Publication Society, 2020). Approachi…
October 5, 2025
Allusive and Elusive
Within the Book of Job, Elihu is one of the most diversely evaluated characters. For example, are Elihu’s speeches so insignificant he’s absolutely ig…
September 13, 2025
Paul and Judaism at the End of History
The apostle Paul was a Jew. He was born, lived, undertook his apostolic work, and died within the milieu of ancient Judaism. And yet, many readers hav…
September 12, 2025
Letters and Letter Writing
New Testament letters are compared with private, business, and administrative letters of Greco-Roman antiquity and analyzed against this background. M…