Mar
16
The Heart of Biblical Studies
A number of years ago, I remember complaining about how a particular text read. My professor very wisely asked me,
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David Knopp
Mar
13
Jonah and Making Big Evidence Claims
Reading through our text for this week and this paragraph stood out to me,
The book of Jonah identifies neither
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Mar
09
The Internet Asks, "What Does The Bible Say About..." From A-Z
This past summer, I noted that the auto-fill feature in Google and Bing gives us some important insight into what
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Mar
06
When We're Not Tough On Ourselves, We'll Create Students Who Will Be
One question I’ve heard over and over and over again is this: why do students grow to doubt the
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Mar
02
The Speaker's Best Friend
I’ve learned much from Lily Walter’s “What to Say When…You’re Dying on the Platform” but my
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Feb
27
The Asherah Tug-Of-War
For some reason, Baal gets all the attention when there’s another Old Testament deity that’s frequently mentioned: Asherah:
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Feb
23
Boredom Is Dead. And We Have Killed It.
Have you not heard of that bored man who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the
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Feb
21
Are they really "The Patriarchs"?
In class, the topic of “The Patriarchs” (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob etc) emerged in class and Dr. Hess pointed us towards
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Feb
16
Sussing Out Authorship
One of the more interesting questions of the Old Testament is establishing the authorship dates of the narratives. Some of
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Feb
07
The Feisty Walter Brueggemann
I was preparing a presentation for my OT theology class and came across this quote from Walter Brueggemann. I hadn’
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