Was Barabbas called Jesus Barabbas?

Memories from Tyndale House

To mark the 80th anniversary of Tyndale House, we are sharing some reflections and memories from people who have lived or studied here over …

The Gospels project: Memories from Tyndale House

Craig Blomberg reflects on his experience of working on the Gospels project at Tyndale House in the 1980s.

Craig Blomberg

Curious characters in the Bible: Melchizedek

Christopher Ash kicks off our new series on 'Curious characters in the Bible' by exploring questions around the character of Melchizedek in …

Christopher Ash

Following the Footnotes: The Syriac Bible

For the final instalment of our Following the Footnotes series, Peter Williams explains why Bible translators today sometimes refer to the S…

Peter J Williams

Modern Genre Theory and the Bible

Andrew Judd unpacks the importance of understanding the conventions of genres as we read the Bible so that we don't get the wrong end of the…

Revd Dr Andrew Judd

The opening of Tyndale House January 1945

Step back in time to January 1945 by reading the Tyndale Bulletin's announcement of the opening of Tyndale House 80 years ago.

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

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

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