“Baby, they’s justice and they’s mercy. If you not sure what to do and you gotta choose one or the other, I say always go the mercy way. If you make a mistake, make it for mercy. Bad mercy don’t hurt nearly like bad justice, and always remember, the Eye of God can see.” – Allen Levi, Theo of Golden (Atria, 2023), ch. 42.
- Steve Wiggins has a review of Brandon Grafius’ latest book Scared by the Bible. It’s a great book.
- When Mark calls Herod Antipas “king” in Mark 6:14, is he just plain wrong or is there something else going on there? John Nelson investigates.
- Robyn Walsh talks about the fragmentary nature of our earliest copies of the NT.
- Paul Davidson looks at the mythology that serves as background for the diatribe against the king of Babylon in Isaiah 14.
- Bart Ehrman introduces a video by CJ Cornthwaite about the Acts of the Apostles and the accuracies and inaccuracies in geographical details in that ancient text.
- What if Judas Iscariot was the Johannine “beloved disciple”? You can find the case for that over at reconstructedbible.com.
- Mark Goodacre defends the idea that John made use of Luke rather than vice versa.
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