By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2023-02-02T02:57:28-05:00February 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 Kia.
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."
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-01-06T22:36:53-05:00January 7th, 2021|Tags: Bible, Christian Canon, Judaism, Paul, Theology|
"I might say [Paul]’s working out a theology. Maybe in all of the letters. Trying to explain… what it is to be in Christ, or in the body of Christ." An Interview with Dr. Nina Livesey
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2021-01-25T04:19:15-05:00December 28th, 2020|Tags: Bible, Church, Gospel of John, Gospels|
"The Gospel of John is more like a like a tender poem about God. No, that’s not quite right. It’s a tender poem in God. Like being in an ocean of God."
By James F. McGrath, PhD|2021-02-07T23:10:07-05:00November 12th, 2020|Tags: 1 Timothy, Bible, Egalitarianism, Gender Issues, Women|
"[The text] prohibited women from teaching only in that time because it was important that they first learn and only then begin to teach."
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2021-01-25T04:15:04-05:00June 25th, 2020|Tags: Ancient Writings, Bible, Early Christian Communities, Early Christian Texts|
I have worked for thirty-plus years on early texts from the Christ movements, the rest of the Bible, and all kinds of ancient writings, because it has been one of the ways I claim meaning.
