Common Denominator

Yesterday, I ended up in my honor's classes giving a quick sketch of how the two hundred years of Jewish history before Jesus formed the...

I used to tell undergraduate students that I would not be surprised if they gained more understanding of the New Testament from taking Inter...

I have started off the year reading James Charlesworth's   (editor), Resurrection: The Origin and Future of a Biblical Doctrine .  I...

... One pattern that emerged in the first millennium before Christ is for a people group to divide their past history into stages, looking b...

Yesterday I summarized the evidence we have on Jewish expectations regarding a messiah.  Today we move on to the restoration of Israel. ___...

Although it's not official, I've got a green light to start work on a couple new books, on Jesus this time (this is not my sabbatica...

I have often found that a lot of the "background to the Bible" stories we tell ourselves are gross oversimplifications, even misre...

They say the last 20% of any project is often 80% of the work. I did a Fulbright in Tuebingen in the Winter of 2004, partially to finish a l...

Some previous posts in this series: Most Apocrypha and Alexandrian Literature Early Enochic Literature The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Test...

For previous posts in this series, see here . In this post, I want to boil down and organize what I think are the biggest take-aways from th...

Previous posts in this series include: Most Apocrypha and Alexandrian Literature Enochic Literature and 4QMMT Covenant of Damascus Community...

Previous posts in this series include: Most Apocrypha and Alexandrian Literature Enochic Literature and 4QMMT Covenant of Damascus Community...

Previous posts in this series include: Most Apocrypha and Alexandrian Literature Enochic Literature and 4QMMT Covenant of Damascus Community...

Previous posts in this series include: Most Apocrypha and Alexandrian Literature Enochic Literature and 4QMMT Covenant of Damascus Community...

In three previous posts I have attempted to catalog intersections between Intertestamental literature and the New Testament, as well as some...

In an earlier post I went through the "Enochic" literature up to 4QMMT, a document that possibly stands at the very moment of the...

I was fascinated to see Geza Vermes, who is Jewish, use the language of the "intertestamental" period in his revised Dead Sea Scro...

I am teaching a course on "Intertestamental Literature" this semester. I do not believe you need to be able to read the New Testa...

I know I'm getting way ahead of myself in the General Epistles, but we are in 1 Enoch in Intertestamental Literature, so I thought I wou...

Test on Friday... here's a summary of where we've been so far: Destruction of Jerusalem, 586BC; Cyrus allows return, 538BC; Temple r...