American teams digging from 1925 to 1933 found an amazing archaeological discovery. They dug up some 5000 family and administrative archives spanning six generations from around 1450-1350 BC. The tablets […]
The Bible demonstrates diversity which is something I find very interesting, although it is also something that many Christians are fearful of. For example, we find diversity in how Samuel-Kings […]
Just Childish? One could argue that the story of Jonah is not really analogous to a child’s story, as if it’s like something from Jungle Book. Of course the meme […]
When we read the Bible, especially the Old Testament, we need to keep certain things in mind. Firstly, we always have to analyze what we are reading, when it was […]
The following content comes from notes that I’ve made on Peter Enns book Inspiration & Incarnation (I shall provide a review soon). Enns is a well known Old Testament scholar […]
Perhaps one of 2015’s most significant biblical archaeological finds was made by an eight year old Israeli boy on a trip with his family to the Beit Shemesh area (1) […]
The Biblical Narrative & the Historicity of The Tower of Babel. According to Genesis the people “moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar, and settled there” (11:1). This was […]
By James Bishop (35333), 3 August 2015. (Subject: Old Testament Studies.) The prophetic book of Micah (written between 735 and 700 B.C.E) is a fascinating fusion of hope and judgment. […]
By James Bishop (35333), 17 August 2015. (Subject: Old Testament Studies.) Robert Stegmann, along with some authoritative scholars he cites, is excellent in his exploration of wisdom. Wisdom, especially in […]
“The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah…” (Exodus 1:15) Who was Shiphrah? She was one of two midwives who helped prevent the […]
