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The Names I Didn’t Know
I started with a simple question: how did the Bible on my desk get here? The material wasn’t too hard. It was full of people I had never heard of, mentioned as if I already knew them. Chasing those names down turned out to be the whole method.
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Jerome: The Man Who Went Back to the Hebrew
He learned Hebrew in a desert in his thirties, when almost nobody in the Latin West bothered with it, and then spent thirty-four years translating the Old Testament from the original. The Bible on your desk still carries the shape of that decision, and so does the most famous mistranslation ever pinned on anyone.
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Which Book of Enoch? 1, 2, 3 Enoch, Jubilees, and Why None of Them Made the Cut
Someone hands you “the Book of Enoch” like it’s a lost chapter of Scripture. There is no single Book of Enoch. There are at least four Enoch-branded works, written centuries apart, in three languages, and Josephus already told the Romans why none of them counted.