- The May 2022 Biblical Studies Carnival (#195) was posted by Bob McDonald on the first of this month. You’ll find a lot of great links there!
- Over at Urbs and Polis, Christy Cobb gives an overview of slavery in the Greco-Roman world.One of the problematic aspects of slavery in antiquity is, Cobb points out, we are often dependent on sources other than slaves for our data. The voices of slaves have been far more often than not been muted. She also discusses slavery in urban and rural contexts as well as the sexual nature of slavery which could result in rape. Despite evangelical apologetics that attempts to portray slavery in the Greco-Roman world as relatively benign, it was horrible and those who experienced it underwent untold trauma.
- Mark Goodacre recently interviewed Jamie Clark-Soles about her 2020 book Women in the Bible. The conversation revolved around the subject of that book and she went into detail on a few female characters named and unnamed. This episode dovetailed nicely with a book I’m currently reading by James McGrath entitled What Jesus Learned from Women.
- Considering the recent fiasco regarding the Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade, Spencer McDaniel posted a piece over at Tales of Time Forgotten examining the way abortion was viewed by people in the ancient Mediterranean world. McDaniel looks at not only potentially relevant texts in the Hebrew Bible but also the way the topic was addressed in Greco-Roman sources as well. It is a lengthy piece but well worth the time to read it.
- Speaking of Mark Goodacre, he discussed the Synoptic Problem, including the Farrer Hypothesis, over at Urbs and Polis. Do I need to say any more? It’s freakin’ Mark Goodacre!
- Over at the podcast The Bible for Normal People, Pete Enns and Jared Byas interviewed Dale Allison on how historians approach the resurrection of Jesus. Allison as you may know has written extensively on the subject in his recent volume The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History (T&T Clark, 2021) and in this interview he covers much of the same ground though in a very condensed format.
- Did the author of Habakkuk merely borrow from Canaanite religion in ch. 3 of his little prophetic work or was he just showing the continuity between Canaanite religion and that of the ancient Israelites? Mark Edward looks at that subject in a post over at his website.
- Over at Salon, New Testament scholar David Gowler wrote a scathing piece on Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and her “massive betrayal of the teachings of Jesus.” Gowler shows that not all Christians are Christian nationalists!
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