“Jude certainly felt naive when she bowed to pray to her mother’s god, as silly as a little girl wishing on shooting stars, dandelions. What could he give her that hadn’t already been denied? Strength? Resilience? Mercy, maybe, if such a thing existed.” – Yah Yah Scholfield, On Sundays She Picked Flowers (Saga Press, 2026), ch. 1.
- Robin Walsh asks Mark Goodacre if all the Gospels are hypothetical.
- And Goodacre responds!
- Are we all ancient Christians? This is John Nelson’s query as he tours with Alex O’Connor. (For my part, I’m not sure I entirely buy what Nelson is selling but he’s a brilliant scholar and always worth a read.)
- What’s up with all those giants in the Bible? Ronald Hendel explains.
- David Frankel discusses Moses’s radiant face, the veil he put on to temper it, and the problems in the story that reveal the work of a redactor.
- Interested in learning Sahidic Coptic? You can download Bill Manley’s textbook on it for free! (HT: Charles Jones.)
- David Litwa talks about Polycarp and the nature of our sources about him.
- I’m still reading!
The Amateur Exegete 