One of the great things about being a research scholar is that if you’re diligent and paying attention, you learn new stuff all the time. For someone with an inquiring mind, it’s like striking gold with some fair regularity. And if you dig deep enough, you find things that very few people know about – often even scholars within your own field. I first read the book of Revelation when I was seventeen; I had a college course on it two years later; and have studied it ever since. But it was not until a couple of years ago that I came to know something about the very oldest commentary we have on the book. Read by Petra Ortiz
In a guest post, Jason Staples covers the nuances of Paul's clay/potter metaphor in Romans 9. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
Bart discusses how Jesus radicalizes some Mosaic laws in Matthew, but may not take such a radical approach to all of them. Read by...
Part two of the saga of the alleged first-century copy of Mark, written two months after the initial "discovery." Bart compares this discovery to...