What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.
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Philosophers have always wrestled with how love can be so morally important, yet so personal and even arbitrary.
The Bible describes the two men meeting and sharing an instant connection.
The Christmas story famously begins with an angel visiting the virgin Mary. Yet their history is of beings capable of both wonder and terror.
Many of the most loved parts of the Christmas story are unbiblical
The Hanukkah story centers on rekindling the eternal light in the Temple, a symbol of God’s presence. Similarly, the Ner Tamid above the ark in synagogues is never supposed to go out.
A new Netflix biopic has resurfaced arguments over whether Jesus, a Jewish man, was Palestinian. Was he? Or are these claims cultural and political appropriation? A historian of religion explains.
Calling a powerful woman like Harris a Jezebel isn’t just an offensive slur; it carries with it the persistent threat of racist violence and sexual assault.
A biblical scholar traces how images of the ‘city of God’ have shaped American culture – especially when it comes to who should be allowed into the country.
Evangelicals are often regarded as a uniform, monolithic group − but there are differences within their politics and social engagement.
Both major parties leaned in to the Bible and Christianity at their recent conventions, but in very different ways.
Several threads, including pre-Christian mythology, veneration of relics in Christian tradition, and medieval literature, have combined over the centuries into the Holy Grail metaphor of today.
State superintendent Ryan Walters has mandated that public school teachers incorporate the Bible into classroom lessons.
Discovered in Egypt in 1952, this 1700-year-old book stands as a key example of the birth of Christian literature and culture – including the rise of antisemitism.
A collection of manuscripts from ancient Egypt reveals the variety of early Christian scriptures before the consolidation of the Bible.
Events that the media describe as ‘apocalyptic’ reflect changing anxieties about the future.
The Book of Job and ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ both make fun of preachy know-it-alls and resist conventions of their genres.
Reagan and Trump − two of the most media-savvy Republican presidents − used religion to advance their political visions, but their messages and missions could not be more different.
The ancient tenebrae tradition brings churchgoers face to face with the darkest moments of the Christian story.
For nearly 500 years, priests and imams justified slavery on the basis of a misunderstood passage of the Bible.
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Associate Professor, New Testament, & Inaugural Director of The Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy, University of Divinity
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Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine and Host of Strange Health podcast, The Conversation
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Executive Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Adjunct professor, Theological Studies, Concordia University
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Associate Professor (New Testament Studies), University of Divinity
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Professor Emerita of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism, and Honorary Professor of the Australian Catholic University, King's College London; Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
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Cadbury Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham
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Professor of American History, Messiah College
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Associate Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University