Common Paine

Let's face it. There's a lot of epistles out there claiming to have been written by Paul. How do we know which ones were really writ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls contain the earliest known copy of the Hebrew Bible (which Christians refer to as the Old Testament). Before the discov...

Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus relates the history of the Jewish people from the creation of the world up to the intertestament...

If you assume Acts is history, then you'd date the First Epistle to the Corinthians to 53 - 57 AD, however, as Dennis R MacDonald has po...

The entire Book of Nahum can be summed up in a single sentence: God is going to destroy Nineveh because it's wicked. Nahum isn't sat...

In the Pre-Nicene New Testament, Robert M. Price points out that the first two chapters of Galatians seem to be a response to Acts. This wou...

Today, Onanism is synonymous with masturbation, but when we turn to the Bible, we find that the sin of Onan wasn't masturbation at all: ...