Found 56 results Illustration by Peter Gurry. Images from Wikipedia, iStockphoto, and Unsplash Part 2: Does Isaiah’s Servant Really Die for the People? The ancient witnesses to Isaiah 53:8 disagree on a central confession about Jesus’ death found in the New Testament. John D. Meade April 5, 2022 Level Illustration by Peter Gurry. Images from Wikipedia, iStockphoto, and Unsplash Part 1: The Servant Sprinkles Many as Anointed Priest The first in our Easter series argues that the servant is not marred but rather anointed as a priest who sprinkles many. Peter J. Gentry March 30, 2022 Level Illustration by Peter Gurry. Images from Wikipedia, iStockphoto, and Unsplash. A New Series on Isaiah’s Suffering Servant Our Easter series addresses a set of textual problems that are crucial to the identity of the suffering servant in Isaiah 53. John D. Meade March 29, 2022 Level “David and Goliath” by Jacob Jordaens. Wikimedia Who Really Killed Goliath? Knowledge of scribal mistakes may provide a better solution to the historical puzzle of who killed Goliath in 2 Samuel 21:19. Kaspars Ozoliņš March 8, 2022 Level Decoration from the title page to the New Testament. Illustration by Peter Gurry. Seven Common Misconceptions about the King James Bible The most widely read English Bible translation has sprouted a series of fictions about it. It’s time to prune them. Timothy Berg February 22, 2022 Level Rembrandt’s “Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery” (1644). Wikimedia Does the Woman Caught in Adultery Belong in the Bible? Jesus’ famous act of mercy is missing in many manuscripts, raising questions about its place in the Bible. Tommy Wasserman February 8, 2022 Level 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 Level The Great Isaiah Scroll was among the first discovered. Today, it is housed at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. Photo by Dennis Jarvis How Much Can the Most Famous Dead Sea Scroll Prove? The Great Isaiah Scroll is a crucial piece of the Old Testament puzzle, but it doesn’t give us the whole picture. Anthony Ferguson January 11, 2022 Level 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 Level 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 Level Page 4 of 6 More articles