Bible

Benjamin Dunning, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, helps clear up a myth circulated by a social media post that suggests an ancient text invokes modern-day language about gender identity.

Joan Taylor, coauthor of the forthcoming book, Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples, pointed to the work of HDS professor and German theologian Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, who pioneered the field of feminist biblical interpretation in the 1980s and...

"What’s indisputable is that, in the ancient story, the holy is made manifest in openness to others. Hospitality is how epiphany happens. Hostility to ethnic and religious outsiders, meanwhile, leads to the massacre of one’s innocent own," writes Matthew...

The resurrection of the dead is widely understood to have been a part of Christianity from its beginnings nearly 2,000 years ago, many people are surprised to learn that the Jews believed in resurrection long before the emergence of Christianity. In this...

Laurie D. Sedgwick, MDiv ‘23, Coordinator, HDS Office of Career Services, Administration, Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on February 15, 2022. ♦♦♦ So I have a confession to make, and that...

“Putting the Bible or placing American history within the Bible, or suggesting the U.S. is a source of revelation, is seen by many evangelicals as a kind of heresy,” said HDS Professor Catherine Brekus.

When HDS Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Laura Nasrallah created the School's first massive open online course (MOOC) for the edX platform, she didn't think much about how many people would register. When she did, her expectations were...