by Susan Barnes | 16 Dec 2021 | Book Reviews
The New Testament authors shared their understanding of their spiritual history as they wrote their accounts and letters. How they do this following Jesus’ life, death and resurrection shows us the significance of Jesus to God’s unfolding purposes. The title and...
by Susan Barnes | 28 Oct 2021 | Book Reviews
Inspiration and Incarnation is one of Peter Enns’ older titles and I’ve discovered I prefer his older books to his more recently published ones. He seems to have more faith in the accuracy of the biblical stories in 2005 when the book was first published. In this...
by Susan Barnes | 3 Jun 2021 | Book Reviews
I feel ambivalent about Peter Enns’ book, The Bible Tells Me So, which has made this book review difficult to write. There were some parts I disagreed with so strongly I nearly stopped reading, yet later parts were incredibly helpful and insightful. I initially...
by Susan Barnes | 27 May 2021 | Book Reviews
Jean-Pierre Isbouts is a well-qualified historian, but not a theologian, so he comes to the topic of Women of the Bible from this perspective. He shares interesting historical and archaeological information about a random selection of women, namely Eve, Hagar, Sarah,...
by Susan Barnes | 22 Oct 2019 | Reading the Bible
Today, I am continuing the series on, Reading the Bible. This time we are looking at discrepancies in the Gospels. In the New Testament, Jesus’ life is recorded in four different ways by the Gospel writers. Some are concern about the discrepancies between these...
by Susan Barnes | 1 Oct 2019 | Reading the Bible
Today, I am continuing the series on, Reading the Bible. Historians and commentators are familiar with discrepancies, not just in the Bible, but with all historical texts. In the Bible, it happens around numbers, dates and measurements. Here are a few examples where...
by Susan Barnes | 24 Sep 2019 | Reading the Bible
Today, I am continuing the series on, Reading the Bible. This post is about the historical evidence for biblical events. For some of the historical events recorded in the Bible, there is archaeological evidence, others not so much. For example, there is evidence of a...
by Susan Barnes | 17 Sep 2019 | Reading the Bible
Today, I am starting a new series on, Reading the Bible. It’s likely to be a long series as I share random thoughts about the Bible, but we’ll take a few breaks along the way. While reading the Bible sounds like a simple thing to do, we will discover it’s...
