The Bible and Interpretation
Dedicated to delivering the latest news, features, editorials, commentary, archaeological interpretation and excavations relevant to the study of the Bible for the public and biblical scholars.
"In My View" is a weekly op-ed feature that enables authors to respond more quickly to biblical topics they deem important. "In My View" offers thought-provoking opinion pieces on the Bible and its interpretation, ancient Near East archaeology, history, and media productions.
The opinions expressed "In My View" are those of the authors alone. They do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the editors of Bible and Interpretation nor its staff. Unsolicited submissions will not be accepted
In My View Articles - 2010
- The No-man's-land of Biblical Studies: Isn't it odd?
By Tim Bulkeley - National Geographic's Jesus the Man-A Review
By Paul Anderson - The King James Bible and the English Language
By David Crystal - Did Anyone Believe in One God before the Greeks?
By Richard S. Hess - Six Anti-Secularist Themes: Deconstructing Religionist Rhetorical Weaponry
By Hector Avalos - Peoples in Early Israel
By Richard S. Hess - The End of Scripture and/or Biblical Studies
By Tim Bulkeley - To What End? A Response to Niels Peter Lemche
By Hector Avalos - Why Biblical Studies Are Necessary
By Niels Peter Lemche - He Who Pays the Piper: The Publication of Academic Journals and Secrecy
By Tim Bulkeley - Some Views on Literacy
By Richard S. Hess - Identifying King David's Palace: Mazar's Flawed Reading of the Biblical Text
By Todd Bolen - Acts 4:19-20?An Overlooked First-Century Clue to Johannine Authorship and Luke's Dependence upon the Johannine Tradition
By Paul N. Anderson - A Canaanite City: Capitol of Geshur?
By Elizabeth McNamer - A (Very, Very) Short History of Minimalism: From the Chronicler to the Present
By Jim West - The Case for the Peer-Review Process: A Rejoinder to "How and Why Academic Peer-Review is About to Change"
By J. Edward Wright - How and Why Academic Peer-Review is About to Change
By Robert R. Cargill - Digging Up Women
By Elizabeth McNamer - An Ignored Contradiction between the Merneptah Stele and Archaeological Data
By Todd Bolen - From Mainz to Marburg?A Diachronic Exchange with the Master of Diachronicity and A Bi-Optic Hypothesis
By Paul N. Anderson - Theological Exegesis
By Jim West - Not in the Theater:Challenging Josephus's Location for the Place of Herod Agrippa's Death
By Todd Bolen - A Fourth Quest for Jesus...So What, and How So?
By Paul N. Anderson - The Mystery of Bethsaida
By Elizabeth McNamer - Jeremiah: Memoirs or Laments?
By Don C. Benjamin - Does the Center Need an Extreme?
By James Crossley - Arizona and the Vanishing Bible
By Bruce Chilton - The Sackgasse of A-Theistic Biblical Studies
By Jim West - Why Do Some Christians Need Material Evidence?
By Antonio Lombatti - Abel: Murder or Sacrifice?
By Don C. Benjamin - Gnostic Breakthrough
By Bruce Chilton - Byproducts of the War on Terror in Biblical Scholarship
By James Crossley - Church History and the Art of Forgery
By Antonio Lombatti - Rahab: Harlot or Host?
By Don. C. Benjamin - From "The Historical Jesus" to understanding Jesus, historically
By Bruce Chilton - Biblical Scholars of the World Unite!
By James Crossley - Relics Still Potent: The Shroud of Turin
By Antonio Lombatti - The Seat of Moses: A Note on Matthew 23:2-3 According to Shem Tob's Hebrew Matthew
By Ross K. Nichols - Violence in the Bible: A Problem to be Solved?
By Julia M. O'Brien - A Liturgical Enigma
By Jay Williams - Peace in Our Time, or Peace with Honor?
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - Judas Iscariot, Gerry Adams, and the Betrayal of Jesus
By Helen K. Bond - Who Cares About the Prophets?"
By Julia M. O'Brien - Spritual Imagination
By Jay Williams - The Covenant Code and the Gate of Tishpak
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - The Relevance of an Apocalyptic Jesus
By Helen K. Bond - Biblical Scholarship and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
By Julia M. O'Brien - Who Were the Magi?
By Jay Williams - Did the Kingdom of Judah Invent "Separation of Church and State" ?
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg - Jesus Through the Eyes of an Irish Republican
By Helen Bond
