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• Bible Bashing 101: How the Media Controls the Message
  Agapepress: August 17, 2005
• National Council responds on Bible Curriculum to Attack by Anti-religious Extremists
  NCBCPS: August 4, 2005 (PDF Format)
• Why Hebrew Textbooks Are Different From Those For Other Languages
  SBL: August 2005
• The Jewish Messiah
  Jewsweek: July 15, 2005
• Reading Against Jesus: Nineteenth Century African Americans' View of Sabbath Law
  SBL: June 2005
• The Blackening Of The Bible: The Aims of African American Biblical Scholarship
  SBL: June 2005
• Biblical Women and Subjectivity: From Abelard to Harriet Beecher Stowe
  SBL: June 2005
• Galileo and the Bible
  Galilean: April 2005
• Minimalism and the Rhetoric of Misrepresentation
  Galilean: Located March 2005
• Moses Didn't Write The Constitution
  OPEdNews: March 5, 2005
• Liverani and the Ancient Near East
  Ebla Forum: March 2005
• Putting It All Together: New Historicism and
  Teaching the Hebrew Bible in a Church-Related College
  SBL: February 2005
• U.S. Supreme Court and the Ten Commandments
  PBS: February 11, 2005
• Jerusalem Strife Echoes Ancient History
  (National Geographic: October 28, 2004)
• The Future of Biblical Studies
  (SBL: October 2004)
• Robert Alter’s new translation of the Pentateuch
  (New Yorker: October 25, 2004)
• Pre-Modern Biblical Interpretation and the Challenge of New Historicism
  (SBL: June 2004)
• Writing about the Bible at the Community College
  (SBL: May 2004)
• The Problem of anti-Judaism in Christian feminist biblical interpretation
  (Cross Currents: Located May 2004)
• Religion hasn't been 'kicked out' of schools
  (First Amendment: May 23, 2004)
• Technology and the Transmission of the Biblical Text
  (SBL: April 2004)
• Gender and the Bible. (Evangelicals Wrangle Over New Translations)
  (Christian Century: Located April 2004)
• Christian Anti-Semitism: Past History, Present Challenges
  (JRS: vol. 6 2004)
• The Editorial Team Behind the Bible
  (Beliefnet: March 2004)
• Evangelicals in the Dock
  (First Things: March 2004)
• The Next Testament
  (Atlantic: March 2004)
• Teaching Difference: College Students and the Bible
  (SBL: February 2004)
• Psalm 23 and the Fear of Stagnant Waters
  (SBL: February 2004)
• Feminism and the Future of Classroom Politics
  (SBL: February 2004)
• The First Battle for the Bible
  (ChristianityToday: January 2004)
• Church-State Separation as Weapon
  (Beliefnet: December 2003)
• University Religion Departments and Teaching about the Bible in Public High Schools: A Report from Florida
  (SBL: November 2003)
• Contingent Faculty and the Future of Biblical Studies
  (SBL: November 2003)
• The KJV and the Jews
  (SBL: October 2003)
• The KJV and American Culture: "A far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory"
  (SBL: September 2003)
• The King (James) and I
  (SBL: September 2003)
• David Daniell's study of the Bible in English examines the Holy Book as an engine of history and art
  (BeliefNet: September 2003)
• The Secular Hatred of the Ten Commandments (Crosswalk: September 16, 2003)
• The Ten Commandments and American Law: Why Some Christians' Claims to Legal Hegemony Are Not Consistent with the Historical Record
  (FindLaw: September 2003)
• The Bible Code is numerological nonsense masquerading as science
  (Scientific American: June 2003)
• The English Standard Version will become the first Bible to allow web programmers to innovate new applications with its text.
  (Christianity Today: February 2003)
• You won't believe the words that didn't exist until the first English translations of the Bible.
  (Christianity Today: February 2003)
• Ancient Israel in Western Civ Textbooks
  (History Teacher: Located February 2003)
• William Tyndale: Thanks to this scholarly martyr, we have the Bible in English.
  (Christianity Today: February 2003)
• How The Bible Has Been Interpreted In Jewish Tradition (By Michael A. Signer)
• How The Bible Has Been Interpreted In Christian Tradition (By Justo L. Gonzalez)
• Meaning-full Translations
  (Christianity Today: October 2002)
• Is The TNIV Faithful in Its Treatment of Gender? (ChristianityToday: Located October 2002)
• America’s Ten Commandments
  (National Review: October 28, 2002)
• The Strange New Christianity
  (Beliefnet: September 2002)
• Ancient Faith, Modern Life
  (BeliefNet: February 6, 2002)
• Revelation, Textual Criticism, and Divine Writ. (Evaluation of the Pentateuch)
  (Judaism: Located January, 2002)
• A Translation Fit For A King
  (Christianity Today: October 22, 2001)
• We Really Do Need Another Bible Translation
  (Christianity Today: October 22, 2001)
• The Psychology of Biblicism
  (Humanist: Located July, 2001)
• Ground zero: Religous education at Bible colleges
  (Christian Century: Located May, 2001)
• Jews Rethink Christianity
  (BeliefNet: Located May, 2001)
• So what's Catholic about it?: the state of Catholic biblical scholarship
  (Commonweal: Located March
  2001)
• Would You Adam and Eve (Believe) It?
  (Christianity Today: March 5, 2001)
• Who Needs a New Torah Commentary?
  (BeliefNet: February 26, 2001)
• Probing scripture: studying and teaching and interpreting the Bible
  (Christian Century: February 2001)
• God Talk: The First Amendment vs. freedom of speech
  (Reason: January 2001)
• Biblical authority: modern-day interpretations of the Bible and its authority
  (Christian Century: January 3, 2001)