Common Paine

This is the third part of my book review of Saul Levin's The Father of Joshua/Jesus in which I summarize the concluding chapter. Chap...

This is the second part of my review of Saul Levin's book The Father of Joshua/Jesus covering chapters 4 and 5. Chapter IV Rabbinical...

This post is a review of the first three chapters of The Father of Joshua/Jesus by Saul Levin. In case you're wondering about the titl...

The Bible doesn't tell us much about Mary Magdalene, although she was apparently an important figure to early Christianity since she was...

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...