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A Wrinkle in Time? Mental Time Travel and Memory in the Bible

How will the people remain faithful to the covenant without Moses? For Deuteronomy, the answer is memory.

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Achilles’ Heel and Jacob the Heel-Grabber: Wrestling with Weakness, Fate, and the Mysterious Divine

Achilles’ heel and Jacob’s heel are both points of weakness, but while Achilles’ weakness gets him killed, Jacob’s weakness saves him.

A Gender Study: The Real Lives of Women and Men in the Bible

What, if anything, does the Bible actually say or imply about gender relations given the material world of Scripture? This series…

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The Importance of Bread: The Bible, Archaeology, and Women’s Power in Ancient Israel

Despite a common assumption, Israelite women were not dominated by men throughout ancient Israelite society.

Part of the A Gender Study: The Real Lives of Women and Men in the Bible series

The Biblical Mind: Elevating Biblical Thinking

The Biblical Mind is a magazine meant to investigate and re-orient readers to the thinking of the biblical authors apparent in their texts.

The First Year of the CHT in Review

Here is some of our most popular content from the past year, along with a couple editor’s picks.

Jael and Sisera

The Rational Poet:
 Appealing to the Heart and the Mind in the Book of Judges

The Song of Deborah in the book of Judges demonstrates that Hebrew poetry is an appeal to reason just as much as it is an appeal to emotion.

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Is Aristotle’s Ethics Hebraic? A Comparison of Greek and Hebrew Ethics

Though most of the “virtues” in the Bible would have found little welcome in Aristotle’s world of Athens, some of the Bible—its Hebraic tradition especially—contains moral concepts that, in form, can be considered Aristotelian.

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Who Is the Steward of Eden? Genesis and Environmental Stewardship

God sustains his creation, but environmental stewardship is the responsibility of humans, who rule over creation in His stead, according to his standards.