The Bible and Interpretation
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Article Archives - Biblical Interpretation
- Cursing the Christians? History of the Birkat HaMinim
By Ruth Langer - The Historical-Critical Historical/Theological Enterprise: Why Are We Asking These Questions?
By Kenneth Atkinson - Slavery, Abolitionism and the Ethics of Biblical Scholarship: Reflections about Ethical Deflections
By Hector Avalos - Against Fundamentalism in Christian Bible Interpretation: The Biblical Case for Feminism and Gay Rights
By David A.J. Richards - Syria and Its Monuments--it may not be bad at all
By Niels Peter Lemche - Brief Update on the Lead Codices
By Thomas S. Verenna - You Read it Here First!
Editors - A Modern Jewish Bible?
By Alan T. Levenson - Artifacts and the Media: Lead Codices and the Public Portrayal of History
By Thomas S. Verenna - The Synagogue as Foe in Early Christian Literature
By Leonard V. Rutgers - By the Rivers of Babylon
By Philip Davies - What's Not so Secular about Introductions to the Bible?
By Hector Avalos - The Ten Lost Tribes: Why Did Many Look for Them? And Why Some Still Do
By Zvi Ben-Dor Benite - Elitism, Colonialism, and the Independence of Biblical Studies: Reflections on the Lemche-Avalos Debate
By Roland Boer - The End(s) of Historical Criticism
By Michael C. Legaspi - The Bible and ANE Studies at the Periphery
By Juan Manual Tebes - Relics and Their Supernatural Powers
By Antonio Lombatti - Fundamentalist Distortion of Scripture Regarding Women's Roles
By Joe E. Lunceford - The End of Accreditation? Not So Fast!!
By Hector Avalos - Whoring After her Lovers: The Quest for Power, Control, Exploitive Domination and the Industry of Accreditation
By Jim West - Knowledge and Power in Biblical Scholarship
By Ronald Hendel - From Fundamentalist Evangelical to Agnostic Atheist
By Ken Pulliam - Forget About Noah's Ark; There Was No Worldwide Flood
By Robert R. Cargill - In Praise of Biblical Illiteracy
By Hector Avalos - Beyond Labels: What Comes Next?
By Philip Davies - How the Jesus Wars Tore the Christian World Apart
By Philip Jenkins - Beyond Minimalism
By Megan Bishop Moore - On Idolatry
By Roland Boer - On False Accusations of Anti-Semitism within the Academy
By Robert R. Cargill - Growing an Audience
By Julia M. O'Brien - The Bible and the Religious Right
By Roland Boer - The Bible and Public Education: Recent Developments
By Mark A. Chancey - Biblical History and Cultural Memory
By Philip Davies - The Freedom of the Christian Theologian: Reflections on a Historical Predicament
By R. Joseph Hoffmann - What is Wrong With the Church?
By Jay Williams - Academics, Biblical Studies, and "The Man on the Street"
By Jim West - Has the Bible Curriculum Been Revised?
By Mark Chancey - History of Biblical Interpretation in the Christian Church
By John Sandys-Wunsch - Jonah and Genre
By Steven McKenzie - Coming Soon to a School District Near You? Bible Curriculum in Public Schools
By Mark Chancey - Help protect the Bible and our public schools!
By Mark Chancey - The Fundamentals, Higher Criticism and Archaeology
By Mark Elliott - Do We Need Biblical Scholars?
By Philip Davies - Creating Biblical Figures
By Thomas L. Thompson - The Copenhagen Boomerang
By Jim West - The Critical Danes and History
By Jens Bruun Kofoed - Assyriology and Biblical Studies: Time for Reassessment?
By Bill T. Arnold - Conservative Scholarship-Critical Scholarship
By V. Philips Long - What Do We Learn About the Bible?
By William Yarchin - How the Bible Became a Book
By William M. Schniedewind - Politics and Propaganda: The Use and Abuse of Ancient Conflicts in the Modern Battle for Jerusalem
By Eric Cline - K. A. Kitchen and Minimalism
By Charles David Isbell - Walter Wink's Personal and Social Transformation through Scripture
By Walter Wink - How Post-Modernism (and W. F.Albright) Can Save Us from Malarkey
By Robert Miller - Engaging Biblical Women
By Lillian Klein - Conservative Scholarship-Critical Scholarship
By Niels Peter Lemche - "History" and "Writing"
By Charles David Isbell - (Perhaps the) Last Comments on the Davies-Dever Exchange
By Iain Provan - Final Comments on Minimalism
By Philip Davies - More Comments on the Davies-Dever Exchange
By Charles David Isbell - Comments on the Davies-Dever Exchange
By Norman K. Gottwald - A reply to Minimalism, "Ancient Israel," and Anti-Semitism
By William G. Dever - Biblical Scholarship in Public Discourse
By Norman K. Gottwald - Minimalism, "Ancient Israel," and Anti-Semitism
By Philip R. Davies - A History of Biblical Interpretation
By Alan Hauser - The Jewish Messiahs
By Harris Lenowitz - Reading Biblical Texts: Truth, Fact, and Myth
By James W. Aageson - The Social Visions of the Hebrew Bible
By J. David Pleins - Karen Armstrong's Jerusalem
By Norman Golb - A View from Copenhagen: Israel and the History of Palestine
By Thomas L. Thompson - Rabbinic Statement on Sharing Temple Mount
By the Jewish Peace Lobby - Old Testament, New Hatreds: The Hebrew Bible and Antisemitism in Nazi Germany
By Doris L. Bergen - Let's Talk of Fear
By Paul Gutjahr - How to Teach Religion in Public Schools
By Stephen Webb
