Several readers have sent me articles about the new "discovery" about the hiding of the ark of the covenant and other treasures from Solomon's temple. Here are some samples: King Solomon's treasures revealed: Newly translated Hebrew text lists legendary riches -...
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Why Study Ancient Texts Outside the Bible?
It may seem amiss for this blog to recommend the reading and study of books external to the Bible - anything "non-canonical" or "uninspired." Actually, it isn't. This blog is called the Naked Bible because I want to present the Bible unfiltered through creeds and...
When Uninformed Journalists and Antiquity Collide: The Book of 1 Enoch
This post from Jim Davila's PaleoJudaica blog made me chuckle. He comments on how a report on an opera based on the book of 1 Enoch being performed in New York makes bonehead errors related. Classic. Davila is an expert on the Pseudepigrapha and Second Temple Judaism....
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 021
In the last podcast, I recommended the best books and reference sources for understanding the religion and culture of the ANE for OT study. This episode wraps up my overview of taking the Bible's own context seriously by immersing oneself into the intellectual...
Another Bart-Sequitur
Well, Bart Ehrman is at it again. Not content with his all-or-nothing illogic concerning the transmission of the text (and so the concepts) of the New Testament, professor Ehrman is once again coming to a Barnes and Noble near you (and maybe a Fantasy Channel ... er,...