Review of the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit at the Discovery Center

 Where: Discovery Center – New York  When: January 8, 2012  Overall Impression of the Exhibit: Brief Introduction to the Exhibit: Today I traveled to New York to see the much-acclaimed Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Discovery Center (just off Times Square).  This is one of those exhibits I’ve been looking forward to seeing since [...]

Emanuel Pfoh – Anthropology and the Bible: Critical Perspectives (Introduction)

While I am on vacation this weekend, and since we recently sent our imprimatur to the publisher for our own book project (so I no longer have any pressing matters or deadlines), I thought I should catch up on book reviews (since muses never sleep nor do they take vacations, it seems).  Emanuel Pfoh was [...]

Wife of God: Was Asherah Edited Out of the Bible?

This is old hat as far as scholars go, but I’m glad it is getting wider distribution.  TIME posted the follow article (snippet version): Some scholars say early versions of the Bible featured Asherah, a powerful fertility goddess who may have been God’s wife. Research by Francesca Stavrakopoulou, a senior lecturer in the department of [...]

The Dead Sea Scrolls are Being Google-Bookized « Zwinglius Redivivus

The Dead Sea Scrolls are Being Google-Bookized « Zwinglius Redivivus. The Dead Sea scrolls will soon be available to anyone with an internet connection. Search engine Google and the Israel Antiquities Authority have revealed plans for an online archive of the scrolls, which number around 900. The images will appear in high definition, with a [...]

Then, as Now, It’s Judaisms and not Judaism (via Zwinglius Redivivus)

The idea that either Judaism or Christianity exist as monoliths is a common misconception. It is good to see that this inaccuracy is being dispelled in the blog-o-sphere. On Judaisms- an observation. Judaism is not now, nor has it ever been, a monolith.  Any more than Christianity. Jews in Jesus’ day argued as much among [...]

Looting the Holy Land

‘Looting the Holy Land special’ with interviews by Thomas L. Thompson and more!  Definitely worth checking out! http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/2010/10/201010591416403822.html (English) Jim West also blogged about this here: http://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/looting-the-holy-land/ (Note: I had known about this as of 8:30AM this morning, and would have blogged it first if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids!) Update: Another great [...]

The Exodus as Portrayed in the Hebrew Bible is True!

Not really, but that sure got your attention didn’t it?  Well, anyway, according to the journalists over at MSNBC, it was a storm which parted the Red Sea which is portrayed in the Book of Exodus. Mother Earth could have parted the Red Sea, hatching the great escape described in the biblical book of Exodus, [...]

Whose Bones are they Anyway?

A colleague of mine, James Tabor, recently came under some polemic attacks concerning some of his interpretations.  While James and I come from different backgrounds, hold different epistemological beliefs, and have different interpretations of this so-called “Biblical history” in which many still cling (in regards to this, I must say I tend to find Joe Zias’ analysis [...]

Of Men and Muses

Well Book 1 is here!  It’s not my monograph, however.  Two more yet to go this year!