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WADESBORO — In the 2001 book “Confronting the Controversies: Biblical Perspectives on Tough Issues”, author Adam Hamilton correctly prognosticated that within…

WADESBORO — In the 2001 book “Confronting the Controversies: Biblical Perspectives on Tough Issues”, author Adam Hamilton correctly prognosticated that within…

It is impossible to ignore what is routinely viewed as the grave moral problem of the book of Joshua, namely, the action of the Israelites in exterminating the Canaanites.

Shayna, a 12-foot albino Burmese python, with her recent batch of 38 eggs. Shayna and Cuddles are unlike many new parents in Israel. They are pythons. But that doesn’t mean their offspring weren’t feted in a traditional way. Israel’s Biblical Museum of Natural History held a public kiddush on last week to celebrate the first baby snakes to have emerged from a crop of 38 eggs that Shayna, a 12-foot albino Burmese python, laid several months ago. “Waiting and watching has been an incredib...

Prof. Joel Baden works widely in the field of Hebrew Bible, with special attention to the literary history of the Pentateuch. He is the author, most recently, of The Book of Exodus: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2019). His other books include J, E, and the Redaction of the Pentateuch (Mohr Siebeck, 2009); The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis (Yale University Press, 2012); The Promise to the Patriarchs (Oxford University Press, 2013); The Historical D...