In the ancient world, time itself was understood as sacred, but not in a progressive sense. It...
Ancient Near East
Modern Christmas observance often treats the birth of Jesus as a private, sentimental moment detached from politics,...
Babylon is presented in Scripture as far more than a powerful ancient city. It functions as a...
The birth of Christ does not occur in a neutral world. Scripture presents human history as unfolding...
Within the religious world of the Ancient Near East, the boundary between divine and human authority was...
The story of Esther and Haman, as recorded in the Book of Esther, stands as one of...
For centuries, Christians have pictured Mary and Joseph wandering through Bethlehem as an innkeeper turns them away,...
The genealogies of Jesus in Matthew and Luke have long drawn attention because Matthew includes Jeconiah in...
Deuteronomy ends with a mystery. Moses dies on Mount Nebo, and God Himself buries him in a...
The biblical worldview presents a supernatural realm far richer than the simplified categories that became common in...
