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The First Christian Nation? Keeping Up with the Armenians (Heather Ohaneson)
Despite the rich history of Armenia as an ancient Christian community, many Christians know very little about the Armenian ethnicity,…
The Sabbath as a Key to Understanding Biblical Law, Part 2
Read part 1, on the ethical purposes of Sabbath. The Sabbath was originally instituted as a sign and a condensed…
Jewish Identity, Deconstruction, and Misusing the Bible (Marty Solomon)
How do we approach the Bible? Do we see it merely as a “perfect rulebook”? A piece of literature to…
The Sabbath as a Key to Understanding Biblical Law, Part 1
As a child, I enjoyed books with “exploded” views of great machines, within which all the component parts of some…
Reading the Bible Like an Adult (Avital Hazony Levi)
How do we read the Bible like adults? For many people who grew up in communities of faith, the Bible…
Raising Chickens, Reading Scripture, and Running Governments, Reformed-Style (Jessica Joustra)
What does it mean for Christ to reign over every sphere of life? Many Christians relegate faith to “spiritual” activities,…
2022 for the CHT: A Year in Review
This past year, the Center for Hebraic Thought made strides in its educational output, with a new video course, a…
Most Popular Articles and Podcast Episodes of 2022
The Biblical Mind’s top articles of 2022 explored biblical motifs and metaphors, the modern concerns of race and individualism, and high-level…
Paying Attention to the People, Places, and Things in the Bible (Kat Armstrong)
Christians know that we should read the Bible. But often, the “should” eclipses the “why”—the fact that Scripture presents a…
The Meaning of ‘Gentiles,’ Part 2: The Jew-Gentile Relationship in the New Testament
Read part 1, “Tracing the Meaning of ‘Gentiles’ in the Bible,“ here. Are we actually all equal in God’s eyes?…
There Is No West without the Near East (Robert Nicholson)
The Near East carries a strange set of connotations in the modern West. On the one hand, it is the…
Tracing the Meaning of ‘Gentiles’ in the Bible, Part 1
It’s never fun to find yourself in the out-group. Something about the way humans organize themselves almost seems to require…
