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Historical Criticism is not an Operating System

By Ryan Pollock I completed my undergraduate degree at a small college of the Southern Baptist Convention in Texas. This college prides itself on forming future pastors in the spirit of the so-called Conserv... Read More...

Reconsidering the Parables of a “Marginal Jew”

A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Volume 5: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables By John P. Meier  Yale University Press xiii + 441 pp $65  Review by Garwood P. Anderson When contem... Read More...

Reading the Bible and ‘taking history seriously’: A necessary aim?

When it comes to scriptural interpretation, it’s crucial to take history seriously — or so I’ve read. Many of us, it seems, are simply not taking history seriously enough.

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