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The World of the Bible – Nottingham

Join us on Saturday 22 March 2025 for a deep dive into the world of the Bible. The day is open to anyone interested in finding out more abou…

The Children of Rachel and Leah (Genesis 29—30)

The account of Leah and Rachel naming the sons of Jacob in Genesis 29–30 may initially seem to have some strange and even unnecessary detail…

James Bejon

Who were the Magi?

In Matthew's account of Jesus's birth we read about wise men from the east who brought gifts to Jesus. However, there is very little else sa…

Tony Watkins

Scrolling Back in Time: The Great Isaiah Scroll

Kim Phillips focuses in on the Great Isaiah Scroll, the oldest copy we have of the complete Hebrew text of Isaiah and one of the most import…

Kim Phillips

2 Corinthians: Leadership and Luxury

Following on from her previous article, Kirsten Mackerras continues exploring the leadership issues in Corinth when Paul wrote to the church…

Kirsten Mackerras

Christmas Book Recommendations

We have prepared a short advent reading list for you, specially chosen by Peter Williams. Dive into a book this Advent.

Writing the name of God in Greek

Dirk Jongkind traces the history of scribal innovations for writing God’s name and explores how these innovations still appear in churches t…

Dirk Jongkind

Following the Footnotes: The Old Latin and the Vulgate

Jonathan Wilken follows the footnotes to explain why ancient Latin translations of Scripture are useful to Bible translators today.

Jonathan Wilken

Artefact in focus: The Flood Tablet

The Flood tablet contains the Epic of Gilgamesh, a story with similarities to the story of Noah's ark in Genesis. George Heath-Whyte discuss…

George Heath-Whyte

John 1 according to the paragraphing of Greek manuscripts

Nelson Hsieh demonstrates in John 1 how the Tyndale House team will decide on paragraph divisions for the second edition of the Tyndale Hous…

Nelson Hsieh

Dying to meet you? Death in ancient Israel’s texts

Philip Johnston explores what God’s people believed about life after death during the time of the Old Testament

Philip Johnston

Who were the Hittites?

Robert Marineau untangles the knotty problems of identifying the Hittites mentioned in the Old Testament.

Robert Marineau

Merneptah Stele: One of the earliest mentions of Israel from outside of the Bible

Josh Meynell takes a look at an Egyptian inscription from 1200 BC, which contains one of the earliest mentions of Israel in extra-biblical d…

Josh Meynell

Early Camel Incidents in the Hebrew Bible

The claim that there were no domesticated camels before the first millennium BC makes the mention of camels in Genesis problematic. Martin H…

Martin Heide

Reading with Strangers: Hospitable Interpretation of Scripture

Brittany Melton unpacks what it means to interpret Scripture in a way that is hospitable to other interpreters, and explains how that can hi…

Brittany N. Melton

A pool strangely stirred: The healing at Bethesda in John 5

Steve Bryan walks through the healing at Bethesda in John 5 to explore what we can know about the pool from archaeological remains, and how …

Steven Bryan

The surprising joy of memorising Job

Ellie Wiener shares about her experience of memorising the book of Job in Hebrew, and how it has helped her in her PhD studies

Ellie Wiener

Toxic leadership in Corinth

Kirsten Mackerras explores the leadership issues in Corinth when Paul wrote to the Corinthian church, and shares what we can learn from thei…

Kirsten Mackerras

Tyndale House Podcast Series 3: Ancient Names

In this series, we take a deep dive into names in the Old Testament

Tony Watkins & J. Caleb Howard & James Bejon

Tyndale House Podcast Series 2: Reading the Old Testament

In this series, we explore some of the more difficult passages in the Old Testament and discuss how we make sense of them.

Peter J Williams & James Bejon & Andrew Ollerton