First Impressions # 100: Tim Whitmarsh on Atheism in the Ancient World
Atheists have been battling the gods for as long as the faithful have been admiring them. Joseph Ryan Kelly speaks with Tim Whitmarsh,
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First Impressions # 95: Eva Mroczek on the Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity
There was no such thing as the Bible when ancient Jewish literature was composed. With a more expansive view of sources, we can
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First Impressions #88: Eleonore Stump on the God of the Bible and of Philosophers
Can the God of the Bible be reconciled with the God of medieval philosophers? Joseph Ryan Kelly interviews Eleonore Stump about her new
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First Impressions #80: Hector Avalos on the Impeachable Ethics of Jesus
Jesus may not have been the moral exemplar he is so often considered to be. Joseph Ryan Kelly talks with Hector Avalos about
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First Impressions #78: Benjamin Sommer on Revelation and Authority in Judaism
Can the religious texts and traditions of Judaism be authoritative and sacred while also being human and sometimes fallible? Joseph Ryan Kelly talks
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First Impressions # 71: Marc Van De Mieroop on the Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia
Long before Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, Babylonians developed their own rational system for exploring truth. Joseph Ryan Kelly talks with Marc Van De
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First Impressions #68: Roland Boer on the Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel
How a Marxist-inspired theory and Soviet-era Russian scholarship help us better understand the world of the Bible. Joseph Ryan Kelly talks with Roland
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John Dominic Crossan talks with Joseph Kelly
Joseph Kelly talks with John Dominic Crossan about his new book How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian. Crossan is Professor
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A Flaccid Interpretation of Eden – By Joseph Ryan Kelly
Joseph Ryan Kelly on Ziony Zevit’s What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden? The baculum, or os penis, is a bone in
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