Wright, the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England, is Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford. His book Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political ...

The popular quiz show “Jeopardy!” has courted controversy twice this week — this time sparking a debate of Biblical proportions. In the final round of Wednesday’s “Tournament of Champions” episode, ...

In 1993, as a visiting research student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, I read for the first time a passage in the rabbinical text Midrash Tanchuma, a text that has influenced me profoundly.

(RNS) — ‘It’s not that we’re trying to rewrite history. It’s simply that women have been obscured,’ said Beth Allison Barr. (RNS) — Emerging from the narrow entrance to a cave south of Jerusalem, ...

Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are here. The first 56 volumes are compiled into the book "Bible Study For Those Who Don't Read The Bible." "Part Two," featuring volumes 57-113, was ...

Who wrote the New Testament? Let’s see . . . there was Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul. Those are the easy ones. At this point, your mind might flash to the book of Hebrews, which doesn’t list its ...

The synod on the Pan-Amazonian region re-opened the question of whether women can be deacons in the church. But we can return to the beginning as we contemplate the future. The New Testament not only ...

Jewish authors in the Second Temple period, as well as early Christian authors after the New Testament, made apologetically-motivated connections between the biblical story of Noah and Gentile stories ...

Thanks for joining our study. This week is part two of Moses in the New Testament. Last Sunday, we focused on Moses in the Gospels, and today we explore the Book of Acts. If you missed last week, ...

For at least a half-century, scholars have been adopting literary approaches to the New Testament inspired by certain branches of literary criticism and theory. In this book, Michal Beth Dinkler uses ...

Timothy Pettipiece does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

It's surprising, but with a little sleuthing, we can get good estimates of when the authors of the New Testament were born. Let's put on our detective hats and see what we can learn about Paul and his ...