21. How do believers deal with intellectual problems raised by the Bible -- as well as controversial findings of biblical scholars? 22. Interviews with biblical scholars and historians provide illumination to what Jesus and first-century Judea were like. 23. Most biblical scholars had assumed that older shrines, mentioned in writings throughout the ages, had been destroyed by invaders, neglect or fire. 24. Recently, a European biblical scholar called me a Zionist because of my long association with Israel. 25. Richard Elliott Friedman is that rare biblical scholar who is both able to address a broad audience and willing to raise large speculative issues about the Bible. 26. Some biblical scholars think it might have been a mnemonic device when stories were passed orally. 27. Some biblical scholars think the Three Wise Men came from Persia. 28. Some biblical scholars have faulted its methods, or objected to the sense of certainty with which it has presented its findings. 29. The Rev. Barnabas Ahern, a prominent Roman Catholic theologian and biblical scholar, died Monday at the Immaculate Conception Passionist Monastery in Chicago. 30. The scene is an invention, but the biblical scholars who ratified the script went along with it. |