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A collage of those involved in the First-Century Mark story

Key figures from the “First-Century Mark” story. Illustration by Josh Koch. Wikipedia

Taking Stock of the “First-Century Mark” Saga


What can we learn from the overzealous excitement about the earliest known copy of our earliest Gospel?

Elijah Hixson

January 25, 2022

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Decoration from Luke 1 in Egerton MS 618 f.35v

Detail at Luke 1 from the earliest datable copy of the complete Bible in English (14th c.). Egerton MS 618 (f. 35v)

Five Decisions Every Bible Translator Must Make


Knowing the hard decisions Bible translators face inspires gratitude for our Bibles and encourages us to read them.

Peter J. Gurry

December 20, 2021

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Harvard Divinity School

Andover Hall at Harvard Divinity School. Photo credit

The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife Fiasco


Lessons from the headline-grabbing forgery that duped Harvard’s oldest endowed professor and enthralled the media

Christian Askeland

December 6, 2021

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Stylized image of the Council of Nicaea

Illustration by Josh Koch from a fresco of the Council of Nicaea in the Basilica of St. Nicholas.

Did Nicaea Really Create the Bible?


Debunking the popular myth that a Roman emperor and a fourth-century church council decided the canon

John D. Meade

November 11, 2021

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A 17th c. icon of Elijah and Enoch in the Historic Museum in Sanok, Poland

A 17th century icon of Enoch with Elijah in the Historic Museum in Sanok, Poland. Wikipedia

The New Testament Use of Jewish Pseudepigrapha


Why the New Testament authors sometimes drew on ancient literary works written under false names

Daniel M. Gurtner

November 11, 2021

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Illustration by Peter Gurry. Images from Tyndale’s 1534 New Testament and iStock

The Letter and the Spirit


The evangelical scholar has no need to fear or to exclude the Holy Spirit when practicing textual criticism.

Maurice A. Robinson

November 11, 2021

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Illustration by Josh Koch from the KJV frontispiece. Wikimedia Commons

Borrowing from the KJV Bank and Trust


Why we must steward and protect the trust people have in prominent Bible translations.

Mark Ward

November 8, 2021

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Portraits of the four evangelists from GA 773 (10th c.)

Portraits of the four evangelists from GA 773 (10th c.)

Why There Are Just Four Gospels in the Bible


Despite tales of conspiracy, there are good historical and theological reasons why the Church recognized four—and only four—Gospels.

C. E. Hill

November 7, 2021

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Painting of St. Peter by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni

How 2 Peter Made It into the Bible


The story of how the most doubted book in the New Testament was recognized as canonical

Darian R. Lockett

November 7, 2021

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Featured image about Enoch ascending to heaven

Illustration by Josh Koch. Image of Enoch from the 1728 Figures de la Bible

The Pseudepigrapha of Second Temple Judaism


A consideration of Jewish Pseudepigrapha raises the question whether the New Testament contains books written under a false name.

Daniel M. Gurtner

November 7, 2021

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