David Stark pointed out that the free SBL Greek New Testament is now available in pdf format. The Talmud Blog draws attention to the new issue of Oral Tradition which includes a substantial number of articles related to Biblical studies. Matt Montonini points out that Mariam Kamell’s PhD dissertation on the Letter of James, earlier Jewish [...]

A topic that has come up in a comment thread on another post seemed worth bringing out in a post of its own. It is a common misconception that evolution is a matter of complex organisms coming about through a random process. That is ancient Epicureanism, not modern biology. There certainly is an element of [...]