One piece of advice good deans offer to help faculty members improve their teaching is this: Ask who your students are. I began the spring semester by asking the students in my logic-and-nature ...

There is value in a pastor knowing Greek AND Hebrew! That being said, I don’t know either — something I regret to this day. I for sure would be a better preacher and scholar if I’d taken those classes ...

Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

Director of Slang and New Language Archive, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College London As Christmas draws near, the now typical jokes pile up on social media. Jesus is commended for having ...

Who wins in the race for the most accurate Bible translation? In the past several decades, a stream of new English translations of the Bible has flooded the market. Many have tried to distinguish ...

Israeli linguist Ghil’ad Zuckerman, whose new Hebrew book, “Hebrew as Myth,” will appear this coming year, thinks I am wrong to call “denigrating” Yiddish linguist Dovid Katz’s use of the term ...

The “mystery stone,” discovered on a mountainside in New Mexico, appears to be inscribed with ancient Greek or Hebrew. For decades, scholars have wondered if it’s proof that Mediterranean peoples came ...

Just, y’know, not good evidence. Consider the following video, which has been going around the Internet, with over a million hits on YouTube between different ...

The name Palestine occupies an extraordinarily politicized position in the study of Near Eastern ethnonyms and toponyms. Its contested etymology has long ceased to be a matter of neutral philology; it ...