Christianity by the Century: First Century CE
Jesus was remembered as a towering moral and spiritual presence amid a century of turmoil. The memory of Jesus as victor—not as a defeated Jew—became the defining theme.
Christianity by the Century: Third Century BCE
What older scholarship once dismissed as a “silent” era—an apparent gap between the Hebrew Bible’s prophetic writings and later Jewish literature—turns out to have been a crucible of creativity.
More Connections Between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library
Both the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi library made a big splash in the media in the forties and the fifties as giving us a new light on the secrets of early Christianity—each in different ways. An interview with Dr. Matthew Goff and Dr. Dylan Burns
Is There a Connection Between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library?
You are bringing us back into antiquity in a way we've never seen before. Dylan, you're stretching our minds in terms of what we're calling Christian. Matthew, you're telling us we have more legitimacy in what we're looking at. An interview with Dr. Matthew Goff and Dr. Dylan Burns
Rethinking Thanksgiving and Canonical Boundaries
I hope the exposure of both myths—Thanksgiving traditions and canonical traditions—resets the course for a more informed appreciation of the treasures buried in the pseudepigrapha even as some Americans have embraced a more inclusive Thanksgiving table.
What Is the Apocrypha and Why Read It?
Apocrypha give us some real insights into beliefs and practices across Judaism and Christianity, across many cultures and thousands of years. An interview with Dr. Brandon Hawk.
Shapira Deuteronomy Fragments: Forgery or Authentic?
"I would suggest keeping a cool head and reserving judgment. Good scholarship takes time—thinking about … all the stuff that comes out on the internet very, very rapidly." An interview about the Shapira Scroll with Dr. Tony Burke.
How the Beautiful Odes of Solomon Enhance Jewish-Christian Dialogue
"Some think these Odes of Solomon are words of praise to Jesus. … But these are Jesus's praises of God, not the worship of Jesus." An Interview with Samuel Zinner, PhD, and Mark M. Mattison.
A New Translation for the Odes of Solomon
These spectacular extant texts are from an era right when there's the so-called parting of the ways between Judaism and Christianity. An Interview with Samuel Zinner, PhD, and Mark M. Mattison