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Cursing the Christians? History of the Birkat HaMinim
By Ruth Langer

The birkat haminim has been an enigma for centuries and an issue for Christians from at least the time of the Church fathers Epiphanius and Jerome. In the late fourth century, they both describe Jews cursing Christians (or Jewish Christians) three times a day in the synagogue,...
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The Historical-Critical Historical/Theological Enterprise: Why Are We Asking These Questions?
By Kenneth Atkinson

The recent controversy over Ron Hendel’s now famous letter describing his reasons for resigning from the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) remains the subject of an intense debate, which in part prompted the formation of a special session at its 2011 Annual Meeting…
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Regarding Magness and Talpiot
By Kevin Kilty and Mark Elliott

Archaeology in Israel Update-- December 2011
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

Mixed Marriages as a Challenge to Identity in Second Temple Judaism
By Christian Frevel and Benedikt Rausche

Reading Biblical Narrative with Its Ancient Audience
By Philip F. Esler

“The End of Biblical Minimalism?”
By Philip Davies

Archaeology in Israel Update-- November 2011
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg

Israel’s Religious History: The Persian Period
By Erhard S. Gerstenberger

The New Testament and Canon
By Arthur G. Patzia

An Archaeometric Analysis of the “Miriam Ossuary” – Zissu and Goren, 2011
By Amnon Rosenfeld et al

Slavery, Abolitionism and the Ethics of Biblical Scholarship: Reflections about Ethical Deflections
By Hector Avalos

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The Trouble With Q
By Daniel A. Smith

The Synoptic Problem (or as I sometimes say to my students, the “Synoptic Opportunity”), that is, the literary question of how Matthew, Mark, and Luke are related to one another, given their various agreements and disagreements in wording and order, is still a problem (or better, an opportunity).
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