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If a man commits a crime, and the police start arresting all his friends and family for no discernible reason, other than being his acquaintances, then, needless to say, unless they know something we …

“That which is written”, and “the letter”, are two very different things. In Matthew 22:31-32, Mark 12:26-27, and Luke 20:37-38, for instance, Christ is neither “going beyond what is written”, nor is …

How can we reconcile Ezra 3:2-3 & Nehemiah 8:17 ? We can't. Reconciliation presupposes discord. But if no disagreement exists, then reconciliation is impossible. The two passages describe the sam …

The Greek text has thousand (xiλioi) in 1:9, and thousands (xiλiα) in 1:10; the Hebrew, on the other hand, found at the same link, has thousand (aleph) in both places; thousands would literally be ale …

Was Paul twisting that psalm to suit the point he was trying to make ? Doubtful, inasmuch as no twisting is necessary to suit the Apostle's purpose. The first two parts of this prophetic verse ar …

Matthew [...] says that when the two women [...] went to visit the tomb, there was an earthquake Mark [...] says that when the three women [...] went to visit the tomb, they saw the stone already rol …

The contradiction is that in John it's always known... By whom ? By Andrew and his brother, Peter (and by Andrew's companion, John, included in the we) ? …

For starters, Darius the Mede and Darius the Great might not even be the same person. Assuming that they are, as you certainly seem to, we run into another problem: Darius the Mede received th …

If Scripture is indeed inspired, as Saint Paul teaches, then its letters, like our bodies, possess a certain spirit, bereft of which, the text becomes as lifeless as a corpse. In Matthew 22:31-32, Mar …

A picture's worth a thousand words... ;-) Basically, within the region allotted to the tribe of Naphtali, there was an ancient city called Dan, founded and inhabited by members of the tribe of Dan …

Did Jesus eat with idolaters ? Technically, no, since there weren't any in Israel, where Christ lived and preached; but that's probably not what you wanted to ask. The main point of 1 Corinthians 5 …

Let us take a look at all the measures (of time, length, surface, and volume) involved in 1 Kings 6-7, describing the construction of Solomon's Temple : 1 Kings 6:1  In the four hundred and eigh …

Did Abraham leave Haran before or after his father died ? Believe it or not, both options are equally attractive, from a numerical perspective. :-) The Masoretic Text puts 290 years from the bi …

2 Peter 2:4 the angels that sinned Jude 1:6 the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation As you are probably aware, both Jude and 2nd Peter are referencing Enoch; spec …

In my own personal experience, the only occasions in which I've ever witnessed such (nonsensical) arguments being brought forth is in Jewish critiques of the New Testament. The relevant passage reads …