At first glance, Christianity can appear to make a claim familiar to the ancient world. Many religions...
Ancient Near East
The Christmas narratives open with a repeated command that is easy to sentimentalize and just as easy...
Modern readers often treat biblical genealogies as background material, something to be skimmed or explained away as...
In the ancient world, time itself was understood as sacred, but not in a progressive sense. It...
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,...
