Bible Study
Moses appears in four books of the Bible, from a basket on the Nile to a grave nobody can find. Here is what the text says about him and what came from later tradition and art.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
David gets more chapters than almost anyone else in the Hebrew Bible: anointed as a boy, hunted as a fugitive, crowned, then exposed. Here is the whole arc and where to read it.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Esther is a Jewish orphan who becomes queen of Persia and risks her life to stop a massacre. Her book is also the only one in the Hebrew Bible that never mentions God.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Paul wrote a large part of the New Testament and never met Jesus before the crucifixion. Here is his life as Acts and his own letters tell it, and where the famous details come from.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Mary Magdalene is named in all four Gospels and is the first witness of the resurrection. The Bible never calls her a prostitute — here is where that idea came from.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
The New Testament gives four lists of the twelve, and they do not match exactly. Here is each name, what the text actually reports, and where the famous martyrdoms come from.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Two of every animal, forty days of rain, a rainbow at the end. Two of those three are only part of what Genesis says. Here is the story as the chapters tell it.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
1 Samuel 17 tells it in detail: the challenge, the armor David refused, the five stones and the sling. There is also a second passage that credits the kill to someone else.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
A trap built out of a law that cannot be repealed, an old official who keeps praying anyway, and a king who cannot save him. Daniel 6, read as the chapter is written.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Fourteen chapters of Genesis follow one man from a pit in Canaan to second in command in Egypt. Here is the full sequence, with the places in the text to check each turn.
Ruth Callaway ·