By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2023-05-24T02:50:25-04:00May 23rd, 2023|Tags: Bible, Gospel of John, Gospel of Mark, Gospels, Surprising Things about Jesus|
The Gospel of John has been overlooked in the historical search for Jesus. Surprisingly, this gospel is a more valuable resource than most scholars have admitted recently. Presenters: Dr. Paul N. Anderson and Dr. Shirley Paulson
By Dr. B. Brandon Scott|2023-04-18T07:01:33-04:00April 26th, 2023|Tags: Bible, Genesis, Hebrew Bible, Old Testament, Translation Issues|
The Hebrew Bible as originally created "was meant to be heard, not read silently. By reading it aloud you will discover, even feel, its rhythm. This text demands performance."
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2023-04-12T04:12:28-04:00April 12th, 2023|Tags: Bible, Comfort, Gospel of Judas, Sacrifice|
What I’ve discovered is that the more I understand the world in which these ancient texts were written, the more I can relate to the God-experiences these writers were talking about.
By Dr. B. Brandon Scott|2023-03-12T00:56:55-05:00March 13th, 2023|Tags: Bible, Hebrew Bible, Translation Issues|
Whatever translation you’re using, switch to another. You will gain a new point of view on your favorite scriptures. A switch will remind you that translations are not THE BIBLE, but versions of the Bible.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2023-05-09T09:18:25-04:00February 1st, 2023|Tags: Bible, Book of Acts, Early Church, Paul, Peter|
One of the issues that’s really beginning to affect these communities and the second and third generation is the question of authority. … How do we know that our group is doing things right? An interview with Dr. Perry Kea.
By Eric C. Smith, PhD|2022-08-10T08:55:54-04:00August 10th, 2022|Tags: Bible, Christian Canon, Early Christian Art|
Is a t-shirt with John 3:16 on it bible? It’s not a bible, it’s not the Bible, but it’s bible, in some sense.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-08-03T01:07:23-04:00August 3rd, 2022|Tags: Bible, Christian Canon, Early Christian Art, Gospel of John|
So when we see, for example, a painting, in the catacombs of Jonah being cast out of the big fish, is it Bible itself? An interview with Eric Smith, PhD.
By Dr. B. Brandon Scott|2022-06-12T16:10:30-04:00June 15th, 2022|Tags: Bible, Fundamentalism, Translation Issues|
A translation can become fixed, immutable, and sacred. … All too often a translation becomes an idol. Bible translations tend to become THE BIBLE for a community and substitute for the original languages.
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2021-12-23T05:22:18-05:00December 22nd, 2021|Tags: Bible, Early Christian Communities, Early Jesus Followers, Jesus, Paul|
The book challenges the general public, many churches, and most scholars to re-consider how to think about Jesus and these hundreds of years before there were ‘Christians.’
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2021-09-20T17:23:33-04:00September 21st, 2021|Tags: Bible, Christianity, New Testament, Revelation|
But based on the two predominant views, the Revelation to John has never made sense to many—often most—Bible readers, much less to non-Christians.
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2021-07-03T12:35:53-04:00July 3rd, 2021|Tags: Bible, Jesus, New Testament|
"The names of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph are almost the only things that are the same in the respective infancy narratives."
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2021-05-26T05:01:39-04:00May 26th, 2021|Tags: Bible, Gospels, New Testament, Old Testament|
"The Bible does not offer us rules that determine reality, rather it offers some combination of a wild stream and an improvising jazz band which make life bigger."
