From Ross Nichols. Well worth reading. An Easter 1883 resurrection. Then and now https://themosesscroll.com/moses-shapiras-manuscript-and-an-easter-to-remember/ https://themosesscroll.com/moses-shapiras-manuscript-and-an-easter-to-remember/
I wanted my readers to know about an impressive new blog recently begun by Ross Nichols, author of the new book, The Moses Scroll: The Most Controversial Case in the History of Biblical Scholarship. If you have been following the news on recent reinvestigations of the scroll fragments, obtained by Moses…
Once again “Holy Week” has arrived. Today is Palm Sunday, with Easter one week away. It is also the first day of Passover–or more properly speaking, the “days of unleavened bread” that also last seven days (see Exodus 12:14-20). So one might say this week is “doubly holy,” in that…
Wishing all of my readers a meaningful, insightful, and joyous Passover, however observed–or not. Remembering ancient Israel’s birth of freedom from a horrible slavery, as well as all those who either long for or enjoy, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as our core global human values. For those…
Last August I announced the publication of The Book of Genesis, a new translation from the Transparent English Version. It has sold well with hundreds of readers commenting on how transforming they are finding their study using this new version. The publisher has announced a special Passover sale through April 4th through…
Join me and my friend and colleague Tina Wray in May for five days together–virtually! We have dug together in Israel, lectured together, studied the Bible together, and learned from one another’s scholarship for decades. Come here the fruit of that collaboration! I just checked today and spaces left for…
Today’s international weekend edition of the New York Times has the Moses Shapira “Dead Sea Scroll” story, that appeared on-line March 10th, on the front page, above the fold! Congratulations to Idan Dershowitz for his years of painstaking work on the 1878 Shapira Scroll fragments–which have disappeared–trying to reconstruct them and…
Excavating Jesus: How New Archaeological Discoveries in the Holy Land are Transforming our understanding of the Historical Jesus I am honored to be presenting this lecture today, Sunday, March 21st via Zoom at 3pm EDT, at the prestigious Anderson Forum for Progressive Theology, joining the scores of distinguished lecturers over…
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Updated March 19th Okay, the expression is overused, but I like it: “When it rains it pours…” If you have been keeping up with the news, both in international media breaking headlines, and in the academic world of biblical studies and blogs–it is all about Dead Sea Scrolls–present and past…
