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Biblical Studies
Interviews with scholars of the Bible about their new books.
July 18, 2024
Eusebius the Evangelist
The development of Christian scriptures did not terminate once, for example, following Irenaeus and other influential patristic figures, the four gosp…
July 17, 2024
Joel, Obadiah, and Micah
Joel, Obadiah, and Micah all prophesied not after a calamity struck but right before a potential crisis or during the crisis itself. Facing immanent …
July 16, 2024
The Poetics of Prophecy
Since the mid-1700s, poets and scholars have been deeply entangled in the project of reinventing prophecy. Moving between literary and biblical studie…
July 8, 2024
Priesthood, Cult, and Temple in the Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran
The Hellenistic period was a pivotal moment in the history of the Jewish priesthood. The waning days of the Persian empire coincided with the continue…
July 8, 2024
Gospel Thrillers
What if the original teachings of Jesus were different from the Bible's sanitized 'orthodox' version? What covert motivations might inspire those who …
July 1, 2024
The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture
Media studies is an emerging discipline that is quickly making an impact within the wider field of biblical scholarship. The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancie…
June 29, 2024
A Jewish Apocalyptic Framework of Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews
In contrast to scholarly belief that the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews envisions the transcendent, heavenly world as the eschatological inherit…
June 27, 2024
Denmark Vesey's Bible
In Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt that Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial (Princeton UP, 2022), Dr. Jeremy Schipper tells the story of a f…
June 16, 2024
The Shepherd of Hermas As Scriptura Non Grata
Composed within the first Christian century by a Roman named Hermas, the Shepherd remains a mysterious and underestimated book to scholars and laypeop…
June 9, 2024
Life
A vivid and intimate glimpse of ancient life under the sway of cosmic and spiritual forces that the modern world has forgotten. Life: The Natural His…
June 8, 2024
Luke Was Not a Christian
One orthodoxy of critical biblical scholarship on the Third Gospel, attributed by later Christian tradition to a companion of Paul named Luke, holds t…
June 1, 2024
The Lailashi Codex
From a remote mountain village in the Caucasian mountains of Georgia came the most surprising discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls: a rare, beautiful,…
May 29, 2024
The Book of Kings and Exilic Identity
Is the purpose of the Book of Kings merely to provide a reason for the exile, or is there a greater message of hope? Tune in as we speak with Nathan L…
May 21, 2024
John Within Judaism
While many have noted the general Jewishness of the Gospel of John, few have given it a seat at the ideologically crowded table of ancient Jewish pra…
May 13, 2024
The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts
The historical narratives of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible have much in common with Icelandic saga literature: both are invested in origins and genea…
May 8, 2024
Reading the Way, Paul, and "the Jews" in Acts Within Judaism
The book of Acts is often misunderstood as reflecting anti-Judaism or promoting supersessionism. Jason Moraff, however, argues that Acts binds the Way…
April 30, 2024
Resetting the Origins of Christianity
How do we know what we know about the origins of the Christian religion? Neither its founder, nor the Apostles, nor Paul left any written accounts of …
April 27, 2024
Introduction to Classical and New Testament Greek
The defining feature of this textbook is the treatment of classical and New Testament Greek as one language using primary sources. All the example sen…
April 20, 2024
The Gospel of the Son of God
What does it mean for the Gospel of Mark to portray Jesus as Son of God? Apparently far more than what past scholarship has recognized! James Neumann …
April 13, 2024
Christ's Enthronement at God's Right Hand and Its Greco-Roman Cultural Context
How did Psalm 110:1 become so widely used as a messianic prooftext in the New Testament and early Christianity? Part of the explanation may be related…