Was Barabbas called Jesus Barabbas?
Dr Dirk Jongkind goes back to the manuscripts to find out whether Barabbas was really called Jesus
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Scripture and The Shepherd of Hermas - Have we got our Bibles wrong?
Ed Creedy takes a look at four compelling reasons why The Shepherd of Hermas isn’t included in the Bible and asks whether we can learn anyth…
Ed Creedy
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Artefact in focus: The Ketef Hinnom Amulets
Dr Kaspars Ozolins shares the story of two tiny silver scrolls which bear witness to the Old Testament text
Dr Kaspars Ozolins
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Finding your way through Scripture
Ben Crelin talks to Dr Carol Kaminski about how seeing the bigger picture can change the way we read the Bible
Ben Crelin
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From the hands of scribes
How does handwriting shed light on variants in Bible manuscripts? Beth Vickers and Dr Dirk Jongkind follow the clues
Dirk Jongkind & Beth Vickers
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Artefact in focus: an Ugaritic abecedary
Dr Kaspars Ozolins shares the story of a technology that changed the world of the Bible
Dr Kaspars Ozolins
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Digging up the Church’s past
The New Testament writers expect us to know basic facts about their world. Dr Thomas Davis tells Kay Carter how archaeology can help to fill…
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Languages in focus: words to live by
There is joy to be found in experiencing Bible languages, if you pursue them out of delight not duty, says Travis Wright
Travis Wright
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Bible toolkit: Reading with Bible-shaped imagination
Reading Scripture creatively shouldn’t be speculative, says Christopher Ash, but we can draw on the Bible’s own rich store of imagery
Christopher Ash
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Who were the Assyrians?
Dr Caleb Howard explains how getting to know ancient cultures can help us to grasp a deeper understanding of Scripture
J. Caleb Howard
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Bible toolkit: Reading the Bible as genuine human beings
The highs and lows of faith can help our Bible understanding, says Christopher Ash
Christopher Ash
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How to read weights and measures in the Bible
Knowing our talents from our tekels can enrich our understanding of some of the Bible’s narratives
James Bejon
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Did Jesus read the ESV?
How would Jesus have experienced Scripture, and how similar was his Bible to ours?
Dr John D Meade
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Do we still care about evidence?
Kay Carter asks the Christian apologist Kristi Mair whether students in the "post truth" world are rejecting research
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Did Jesus speak Greek?
How likely is it that Jesus used the lingua franca of the world of the New Testament?
Peter J Williams
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The books that made us scholars
Travis Wright and Andrew Keenan on their favourite books, and their mission to teach Bible languages
Beth Vickers
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Artefact in focus: The Black Obelisk
Only one Judahite king ended up with his picture on an Assyrian royal monument. Find out why it probably wasn't a distinction king Jehu wa…
J. Caleb Howard
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Between the Testaments
Sometimes called the ‘silent years’ in fact this was a time of important change
Peter J Williams
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Who carried the Epistles?
Dr Peter Head meets the trusted letter-carriers who delivered the New Testament epistles by hand
Peter Head
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Artefact in focus: The Cyrus Cylinder
This stone tablet takes us back to the last days of Babylon, and a series of events that was to have momentous consequences for Judah
Dr Kaspars Ozolins
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Taking research onto the streets
Dr Myrto Theocharous explains how Deuteronomy ignited her passion to help refugees and women trafficked into the sex trade
