In the biblical field (as in other disciplines) there are matters of debate that remain unsettled, at least for now. The volumes in this year’s survey of books on the Bible represent areas in which ...

If you grew up going to Sunday school, then you'll definitely recall hearing about classic Bible tales like Noah's ark and Jonah and the whale. Between the Old Testament and the New Testament, the ...

In her article that appeared in Biblical Archaeology Review —which is linked to in Mr. Plotz’s article—Mazar makes no such assertion. She merely posed a rhetorical question: “Have I found King David’s ...

In a famous 1936 lecture, “The Presentation of New Testament Texts,” Dietrich Bonhoeffer proposed to the Confessing Church an alternative strategy of reading scripture. Instead of questioning the ...

Let’s just be honest: some books of the Bible are hard to read through. Really hard. In fact, some parts of the Bible can be downright boring. (Is that wrong to say? Well, it’s too late to take it ...