Two days ago, Karen L. King, Hollis Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School, identified a scrap of papyrus in which Jesus speaks of “his wife,” the first time Jesus has explicitly referred to a wife.
Posts Tagged ‘Bible’
July 12th, 2012
Bible, flowers, and relevance
posted by Candice ScharfJohn Boy, contributing editor to The Immanent Frame and an associate editor of Frequencies, reflects on his recent visit to Amsterdam’s Bijebels Museum.
March 6th, 2012
Postdoc fellowship: The Bible and Antiquity in 19th-Century Culture
posted by Justin ReynoldsThe Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge is accepting applications for six postdoc fellowships in relation to a new project, The Bible and Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Culture.
August 10th, 2011
What would Jesus do?
posted by Amanda KaplanReligion blog, Debate Faith comments on the U.S. Air Force training program recently suspended for employing biblical language and religious imagery in its teachings.
September 30th, 2010
Book of Esther showing up in unlikely places
posted by Lydia Brawner“Deep inside the computer worm that some specialists suspect is aimed at slowing Iran’s race for a nuclear weapon lies what could be a fleeting reference to the Book of Esther,” reports The New York Times.
September 29th, 2010
Did wind part the Red Sea?
posted by Lydia BrawnerA software engineer with the National Center for Atmospheric Research believes that the parting of the Red Sea recorded in Exodus may have been caused by a meteorological phenomenon known as “wind set-down,” reports NPR.
August 7th, 2010
GOP candidate Angle says U.S. guilty of “idolatry”
posted by Aaron WeinsteinAs Michael Blood from the AP reported in an article on August 5, audio and transcripts from an interview Sharron Angle gave in April to TruNews Christian Radio indicate that the nominee’s opposition to “big government” is theologically motivated.
July 1st, 2010
Traditionalism and female subordination in church
posted by Amanda KaplanIn her article, “The Persistence of Patriarchy,” subtitled Hard to believe, but some churches are still talking about male headship, founding member of the Evangelical and Ecumenical Women’s Caucus, Anne Eggebroten laments the institutionalized gender inequality still present in some Christian services and lifestyles.
December 15th, 2009
Was prophecy a day job for poets?
posted by Nathan SchneiderIn The New Republic, Adam Kirsch reviews David Rosenberg’s A Literary Bible, which makes an arresting claim about Hebrew biblical literature.
April 1st, 2009
Wolterstorff’s Bible-as-”frame”
posted by Ward BlantonIn short, I agree with Wolterstorff that, while there is no theory in this extremely diverse array of biblical texts, readers may “nonetheless sense a certain rhetorical unity pervading the great bulk of these writings.” We just disagree about what this narrative unity is. What if we said that the “red thread” (so to speak) which unites these tales is not a “frame” guaranteeing rights but rather the clear and repeated indication that humanity is faced with traumatic contingency, surprise, and uncertainty, and that they are at times (for this very reason) subjects of remarkable, even Promethean moments of invention?
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