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
A follow up post that raises even more reasons to be skeptical of an early Christian text called The Martyrdom of Polycarp. Read by...
James Tabor concludes his account of the standoff between the government and the Branch Davidians, showing how the tragedy might have been avoided. Read...
Bart answers gold member questions for November, 2021