Bart. Do you think Matthew's inclusion of these dubious prophecies was due, in part, to a feeling that it was…
I understand why the religious teachers/scholars/priests back then dared to change or add to the books like one example Isaiah,…
To me, the real problem with Matthew’s use of Hosea to refer to Jesus is not the context of “Israel”…
Re: the annunciation in Luke, this is an interesting take, but I think the author is indeed suggesting that God's…
My new book The A to Z of the New Testament has a chapter "Fulfillment Fail?" about whether the author…
Hopefully we will still hear your thoughts on the NRSVue!
Happy New Year. I suppose one could argue that the Essenes were not much different to the Evangelical Christians of…
This reminds me of something I've heard called the four classic ways of interpreting scriptural: literal, allegorical, tropological and anagogical.…
Bart, It seems difficult to decipher what Matthew's gospel was trying to say if we don't really know or fully…
Bart, you have said that Jesus is not referred to as God until the Gospel of John, but already in…