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Pauls Letters

The Search for the Historical Paul: What Paul Thought About Women

John Dominic Crossan | Posted 10.11.2011 | Religion
Read More: St. Paul, Early Christian Writings, Historical Paul, Paul, Paul and Thecla, Epistles, Paul's Letters, Acts of Thecla, Christianity, Gender, Thecla, Gender and Religion, Religion News
John Dominic Crossan

The historical Paul is being pulled -- kicking and screaming -- away from Christianity's radical past and into Christianity's Roman future. As with owner and slave so also with male and female.

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What The Bible Really Says About Slavery

Greg Carey | Posted 08.22.2011 | Religion
Read More: New Testament, Greg Carey, Interpretation, Bible, Slavery, Paul's Epistles, Paul's Letters, Christianity, Slavery in the Bible, Christianity and Slavery, Religion News
Greg Carey

Slavery stands as the single most contested issue in the history of biblical interpretation in the United States. What did slavery mean in the biblical world, and how did biblical authors respond to it?

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Who Wrote The Bible And Why It Matters

Bart D. Ehrman | Posted 05.26.2011 | Religion
Read More: Christianity, 1 Timothy, The Bible, Paul's Letters, 2 Peter, Early Christianity, Epistles, Biblical Authors, Christian History, Bible Authorship, Who Wrote the Bible, Religion News
Bart D. Ehrman

Many of the books of the New Testament were written by people who lied about their identity, claiming to be a famous apostle -- Peter, Paul, or James. In modern parlance, that is a lie.

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