Personally, when I am reading a historical document I want to know what the author actually wrote, warts and all,…
On Should Bible Translations Be Gender-Neutral?
Re: The supreme divine being is not male with male genitalia. But wasn't he? ( Or "He", I suppose.) I…
On Should Bible Translations Be Gender-Neutral?
Thank you for this post. As a professor of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, I deeply appreciate your nuanced take…
On Should Bible Translations Be Gender-Neutral?
Like you, I came out of a very fundamentalist/conservative christian background, and yet I never saw this as an issue.…
On Should Bible Translations Be Gender-Neutral?
As well as being a treasure trove for anyone interested in early Christianity and its evolution, the blog is an…
On 2023 In Review
As far as I can tell, most Muslim palestinians are descendant from *Christian* converts from Judaism who had lived in…
On American Support of Israel: A (Widely) Unknown Part of the History
It is about land https://jewishcurrents.org/teshuvah-a-jewish-case-for-palestinian-refugee-return From Peter Beinart
On American Support of Israel: A (Widely) Unknown Part of the History
I thought about this further and given the Mandaeans and their historic existence, I was lead to thinking that maybe…
On Did Nazareth Even Exist?
So glad to be part of this! 🙂
On 2023 In Review
Worse, any biblical text in Latin (or English) is a translation and an interpretation. The best guide to the meaning…
On Some of the Difficulties in Understanding Gnosticism