This blog post was adapted from my recent YouTube video. Good question, and the answer isn’t straightforward. On the positive side, Exodus is Israel’s national origin story—and it starts with […]
Continue ReadingThe prophet Jeremiah lived during the time when the Babylonians invaded Judah (beginning in 597 BCE) and then captured Jerusalem in 586 BCE, razing the temple and sending many of […]
Continue ReadingThis blog series is taken, more or less as is, from my latest book How The Bible Actually Works. You can read the first posts in this series here, here, here, […]
Continue ReadingThis blog series is taken, more or less as is, from my latest book How The Bible Actually Works. You can read the first posts in this serieshere and here and here. The […]
Continue ReadingHear me out. One way (not the only way, but one way—hold your horses) of describing the Old Testament is as a story of striving for national identity. Yeah, that […]
Continue ReadingDoes the Old Testament portray Adam’s disobedience in the garden of Eden as the cause of universal human sinfulness and guilt? No it doesn’t. Not even remotely.
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