The Bebby Jesus

Here at Bible Junkies, unless Isaac, Fr. Juan Miguel or I get a sudden burst of energy, we will be a little quiet over the Christmas break, ...

Phil Robertson, Duck Dynasty, the Bible and Homosexuality

Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty believes in the Bible and he told Drew Magary of GQ , who wrote about it in the magazine . Now everyo...

The Nature of Wisdom Literature II

To many scholars, Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) are considered wisdom literature since these books account for most uses of th...

Joseph, Potiphar's Wife, and Elephantine

Elephantine Island; Wikimedia Harvard Semitic Museum 's YouTube channel has a very good lecture by Bernd Schipper , " Joseph, P...

The New Testament Portrait of Jesus for Muslim Theologians

In January 2014 I and some of my colleagues will be going to Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir, Turkey to speak about Jesus in the Christ...

The Ketuvim: The Nature of Wisdom Literature I

King Solomon at old age (Photo credit: Wikimedia)  The third section of the Tanak is the כתובים (kĕtûbîm), the writings, a really div...