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Following Jesus’ death, Peter and the apostles were hauled before the Jewish council for preaching the gospel despite having been ordered not to. The council were minded to kill them, but a Pharisee named Gamaliel advised against this course. However, he can’t have made the speech to the council that Acts attributes to him. (more…)

Following Jesus’ death, Peter and the apostles were hauled before the Jewish council for preaching the gospel despite having been ordered not to. The council were minded to kill them, but a Pharisee named Gamaliel advised against this course. His speech to the council appears to involve an error. (more…)

Bethsaida was the home of Andrew and Simon Peter, fishermen who Jesus called from their nets to become “fishers of men”. But was Bethsaida just a small fishing village, or something more? (more…)

Andrew was Jesus’ first disciple. His brother Simon (a.k.a. Peter) was arguably the most important, identified by Jesus as the rock on which his church would be built. But where did Andrew and Simon Peter come from? (more…)

Moses was called by God to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt when God spoke to him from the burning bush. But did God speak to Moses directly, or through an angel as an intermediary? (more…)

Jacob was buried in a tomb bought by Abraham, but the Bible is unclear concerning where this tomb was. (more…)

In Jesus’ time, the Jews were not just waiting for the Messiah, but also for the return of Elijah before the Messiah. There is some confusion in the gospels as to whether Elijah returned in John the Baptist. (more…)

When David had angered God by taking a census of the people of Israel, God sent a plague as a punishment. Seventy thousand died, but God paused before sending the plague against Jerusalem, and instructed David to build an altar on the threshing floor of a Jebusite. David did so, and Jerusalem was spared the plague.

The Jebusite is called Araunah in 2 Samuel, and Ornan in 1 Chronicles, but these are sufficiently similar to be accepted as two different versions of the same name rather than two different names. However, the accounts do give two different prices that David paid. (more…)

Both Joshua and Acts contain descriptions of Joseph’s resting place. In each, Joseph’s body was interred at Shechem, in a tomb bought from the descendants of Hamor. The accounts disagree, however, concerning who bought the tomb. (more…)

In Leviticus and Deuteronomy, God issues instructions concerning which of the land animals the Israelites may and may not eat. In doing so, he makes a factual error concerning hares. (more…)