"Paul has the most to say about marriage in 1Cor 6:1-7:39." Find out more in Marriage in the New Testament by Jill E. Marshall buff.ly/3PvXSwA
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"The sexualized image her name invokes has been used against African American women since at least the eighteenth century." Stacy Davis Jezebel from an African-American Perspective buff.ly/3wd7eGN
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How common was travel by sea for people who were not sailors? Read Sea Travel and Shipwrecks in the Ancient World by Troy M. Troftgruben buff.ly/3QwNfuW
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Did Jesus endorse a same-sex relationship? Read Christopher B. Zeichman 's article The Healing of the Centurion’s Slave (Matt 8:5–13 // Luke 7:1–10). buff.ly/3Cb7JVA
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Were divinely commissioned messengers active in other ancient Near Eastern cultures? Find out in Prophets and the Royal Court in the Ancient Near East
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"Was it unlikely that a woman was an apostle? Was Junia an anomaly among early followers of Jesus? " Read more about Junia from Yii-Jan Lin buff.ly/3CdeDtv
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"According to many Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, the god worshipped in these three religions is one and the same." Read more about similarities and differences in The Divine Name in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Tradition by Sarah Cook buff.ly/3ntJU2P
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Did early scribes alter the text of Revelation and, if so, what kinds of changes were introduced? Find out in the article The Text of Revelation and Early Scribes by Juan Hernández Jr. buff.ly/3b3NtcW
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How is Enoch portrayed in the Bible and other early Jewish and Christian writings?Check out the article Enoch by Kelley Coblentz Bautch buff.ly/3xvcMfB
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"Acts 2:1–4 tells the story of a 'big bang' event that energizes the earliest followers of Jesus soon after his resurrection from the dead and ascension into heaven (Acts 1:9–11." Read Pentecost (Acts 2:1-4) by F. Scott Spencer buff.ly/3iGFTWb
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"Shavuot is a biblically mandated festival marking the conclusion of the springtime grain harvest." The Jewish festival of Shavuot begins this evening. Read more about it in Steve Werlin's article Pentecost. buff.ly/2NDiPLa
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What were the earliest Christian baptisms like? Find out in Baptism in Early Christianity by Michael Peppard buff.ly/3M5tgR4
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"As most prisoners, Paul was aware that his letters written in jail to the Philippians and Philemon would be read by uninvited readers such as spies, prison guards, and prosecutors." Read Hidden Messages in Paul's Prison Letters by Angela Standhartinger buff.ly/3GtGy8D
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"The land of Israel is a biblical term for the small territory of the Near East between the Mediterranean coast and the Jordan Rift Valley." Read more in the Land of Israel
by Benjamin D. Gordon buff.ly/3wSmERv
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"While the resurrection may be the key event in the life of Jesus, the coming and experience of the Spirit is fundamental for the new people of God." Read more in The Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts by Graham H. Twelftree buff.ly/3MmwCzY
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What elements of the story of the garden of Eden might have led people to connect the serpent to Satan? Shawna Dolansky discusses the question. Watch the interview. buff.ly/39yFvI3
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"Hebrews 11 is often viewed as an ode to faith. The word faith, pistis in Greek, is repeated some twenty-six times in this chapter alone, demonstrating its significance to the author’s overall message." Read more in Heroes of Faith by Jennifer T. Kaalund buff.ly/3LJyFNo
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When do we start seeing Satan used as a proper name and not a title? Watch the interview with Shawna Dolansky. buff.ly/3sJaU1d
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"The psalms are scripted to be sung and recited repeatedly. With each occurrence, they imagine again the daily life of Israel...." Read more in Psalms in Israel's Worship by Walter Brueggemann buff.ly/3sK8boh
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When do we see evidence that people interpreted the serpent as something more than a snake in the garden? Watch the interview with Shawna Dolansky. buff.ly/3wp7H9q
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Paul is the first writer in Greek literature to employ the term aresnokoites. This makes it very difficult to translate. Read Jennifer Knust's article on the word's complicated history in Illicit Sex (Word Study) buff.ly/3MqpkLz
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"In Acts 5:1-11, Luke introduces Ananias and Sapphira, a married couple within the congregation of new Christians in Jerusalem." Find out more about Ananias and Sapphira in the article by Anna Giovanetto and Sylvie Raquel buff.ly/37Ro5WG
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What do biblical scholars and archaeologists mean when they use the word cult? Read the Ask a Scholar response from Sarah Shectman. buff.ly/39Ch6S0
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"What was the relationship between the Levites and priests?" Find out in Priests and Levites by Jaeyoung Jeon buff.ly/3KRqZZb
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How was miscarriage and abortion understood in the ancient Near East? Read more from Abortion and Miscarriage in the Ancient Near East by Kristine Henriksen Garroway, author of Growing Up in Ancient Israel: Children in Material Culture and Biblical Texts buff.ly/3mx5Zvt
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"Together, the images of Solomon in the different biblical books offer a complex portrait of the king: both wise but prone to doubt and error." Read more in Solomon's Wisdom by Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher buff.ly/3OJfh5T
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How is salt portrayed in the Bible? Find out in Salt by Taylor Hollern and Jonathan Schwiebert buff.ly/3EYtHdX
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What kind of battle is being waged and against whom? Read "Spiritual Warfare in Ephesians 6" by Holly J. Carey buff.ly/3knkD8Y
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"In all three Synoptic Gospels, Jesus calls a tax collector to be a disciple. Mark and Luke call the tax collector Levi, but he is called Matthew in the Gospel of Matthew." Read more in Matthew (Disciple) by Katelyn Schnoor and John Van Maaren buff.ly/3ved9vm
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What is in the Gospel of Peter? How does the Gospel of Peter compare to the canonical gospels? Find out in Gospel of Peter by Zoe Grout, Kathleen Arbogast, and Rubén R. Dupertuis buff.ly/3scVAKj
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"Miriam is one of the known female prophets of the Hebrew Bible. The others are Deborah, Huldah, and Noadiah." Read more in Miriam by Hanna Tervanotko buff.ly/2GBpxJn
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"In Exod 2:1-10, an unnamed Egyptian princess, daughter of an unnamed Egyptian pharaoh, becomes a Hebrew slave-child’s foster mother." Check out Unnamed Women: Significant Secondary Characters by Robin Gallaher Branch buff.ly/3dcNLfl
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"Even though Egypt plays a central role in the Bible, Egyptian influence on the biblical text is not very great." Read Egyptian Influences on the Biblical Text by Bernd U. Schipper buff.ly/3pzg0Kw
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"The great majority of the biblical references to Egypt are related to the exodus tradition." Find out more in Egypt by John Kaltner buff.ly/3KOwY1j
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"Markers of the exodus tradition include well-known names, words, phrases, and motifs that run through the books of the Bible." The Exodus Tradition in the Bible by Brian M. Britt buff.ly/3KNlj2J
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Why are these particular plagues described, and how are we to interpret them? Find out more in The Plagues of Egypt by John Huddlestun buff.ly/3q4thwx
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"If you open an English Bible, you’ll see that Mark’s Gospel ends with a couple of different endings." Watch the interview with Helen K. Bond. buff.ly/3w2tOCV
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