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Moss’s meticulously researched and exquisitely written work makes the undeniable (but often unstated) case that there would be no New Testament without slave labor and slave expertise. There is a ...
(RNS) — From podcasts to YouTube channels to books, here’s my curated list of favorite (fun, even!) companions for studying the New Testament in 2023.
It assumes, for instance, that the New Testament is a fully human document, compiled by human hands and driven by wholly human motivations, just as any other work of human literature.
Coleman said that becomes clear when Matthew, the first book of the New Testament, begins by repeatedly showing the reader how the events of Jesus’ birth and life were the fulfillment of Scripture.
(RNS) — The influential New Testament scholar E. P. Sanders, who devoted his career to promoting more accurate and, for Christian scholars, more sympathetic understandings of early Judaism, died ...
New books spotlight women’s roles in New Testament. “They were working alongside the men,” scholar says. “They were as important to the early Jesus movement as the men were.” ...
The Enslaved People Who Wrote Down the New Testament Art history has long concealed the scribes who put swaths of the Bible and early Christian writings on paper. by Sarah E. Bond July 28, 2024 ...
The new translations of the New Testament published since 1944 include three widely used versions, namely the Revised Standard Version (1946), that by J. B. Phillips (1947–1958), and the New ...
Rowe’s second new work unfolds a multidisciplinary approach to exegesis focused on the New Testament books of Luke, Acts, and letters of Paul, weaving together historical context, intertextuality, ...
Richard Hays, who served as the dean of the Duke Divinity School from 2010 to 2015, died at age 76 at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, following a decade-long battle with pancreatic cancer.