The promise of resurrection for all God’s people in Christ carries a strongly political edge.

Jesus doesn’t really matter in Britain, but he clearly does in America. Why?

The early Christian martyrs were not reading the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas or the hypothetical sayings source that scholars refer to as “Q.” They were reading Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

The Dead Sea—background to the Bible

How to Draw Ancient Highways on Biblical Maps

Those who explain Paul as a Hellenizer are swimming against the tide. The arguments for his essential Jewishness are overwhelming.

At stake in Paul’s letter to the Romans is not simply “how sinners get saved,” but how God is faithful to his covenant.

Luke placed a time bomb alongside the central symbol of Roman imperial power: The divine Lord of the world is not Caesar, but Jesus.

The Letter to the Romans re-enacts for all peoples the Israelite Exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land—from slavery to freedom.

When Paul shuns the “works of the law,” is he referring to the very works commended by the Dead Sea Scroll known as MMT?

For there to be forgiveness or mercy, the truth, no matter how harsh, must be told. That is a lesson to be learned from the God of both testaments.

Christianity was born into a world where one of its central tenets, the resurrection of the dead, was widely recognized as false—except, of course, by Judaism.

Paul’s theology—grounded in Jewish thought and scriptures—propelled him to confront the powers of Rome and the pagan gods that stood behind them.

A misunderstood term has caused great confusion in understanding Paul, and it’s time to get it right.

Little did Paul know how his colorful metaphors for Jesus’ second coming would be misunderstood two millennia later.

How can we gain a biblical understanding of the social and political events of our day?