A once devout Christian, I dedicated myself to studying the Bible in an attempt to write the perfect argument for why the Bible is the word of God. Instead my s

Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic, we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture, refiguring th

Sixty years ago, most biblical scholars maintained that Israel’s religion was unique—that it stood in marked contrast to the faiths of its ancient Near East

The truth behind the biblical stories of the Old Testament.