The Biblia Hebraica Blog

I had a irresistible bookstore coupon good only this weekend, so I trekked to the nearest Borders to see what they had that might be of inte...

The next issue of Bible Study Magazine will ship soon and there is a very insightful, well-written article exploring the meaning of koinonia...

Here's a video from Christmas a few years ago when my middle daughter was almost 3. Enjoy her energetic recitation of Luke 2:8-20. ...

Forthcoming from Oxford University Press - The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls edited by Timothy Lim and John Collins. With a Dec 2...

Back in 2008, I wrote a post dealing with the issue of whether the New Testament references to Old Testament characters can be taken as evi...

Those of us well-versed in the art of biblical exegesis – historical-critical style – have all been struck from time to time by a groan-indu...

One of my former NT professors has started blogging on issues of exegesis in the Greek New Testament. The blog is aptly titled  ἐξήγησις . I...

Bob's thought for the day is worth repeating in part: it is never heretical to point out the inconsistencies of the biblical text to s...

I’ve been catching up on episodes of the NT Pod over the past week or so. I have to say that I’ve really enjoyed Mark ’s series on the Syno...

In my last post I briefly mentioned the problems with determining when Jesus was born (hint: it wasn't 0 A.D.). In honor of Christmas d...

Just in time for Christmas (coincidence?), the Israel Antiquities Authority has announced the discovery a house in ancient Nazareth dating ...

I've started reading through the weekly meditations found in the NLT Holy Bible Mosaic . (Thanks to Sean Harrison at Tyndale House Publi...

Biblical scholarship now operates with a few defining consensuses. Questioning the consensus can be okay. Overturning the consensus is nearl...

After meeting many grad students and young professors at SBL this year, I've been musing a bit about the long-term job prospects for man...

I had the random thought that I could look up the 9th verse of the 9th chapter of the 9th book of the Hebrew Bible for a good random verse f...

The ideology reflected in biblical wisdom literature about retribution or the deed-consequence nexus is far too complex to neatly sweep it ...

My friend and fellow UW Hebrew & Semitic Studies colleague Tim Mackie has started a blog titled " Musing ." So far he has 3 po...

Much has been said recently about Elisha and the incident with the bears in 2 Kgs 2:23-25. We have David Ker to thank for that. Others who...

Updated with exciting new info! I finally got around to putting Mark Goodacre 's new NT Pod podcasts onto my mp3 player, so I could lis...

...and so Matthew 1:23 invokes Isaiah 7:14 as foretelling the Virgin Birth - Jesus as the Son of God conceived by the power of the Holy Spir...