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I received an email this morning from a current student.  Here is how he started, “Since we talked about weird laws tonight, Numbers 5:11-31 has been deeply troubling to… — September 17, 2014

I received an email from a friend a few days ago.  She asked about the duplication and repetition in Scripture, specifically why there were two versions of the… — August 24, 2014

No other city of the world has been at the center of history for four millenia. Abraham almost sacrificed his son Isaac there (Gen. 22). Adoni-bezek lost his thumbs and… — August 10, 2014

My son Noah spent 9 days in Haiti last month with friends from our church, working at an orphanage. I posted the first half of his letter yesterday… — July 23, 2014

Our son Noah (17) spent 9 days in Haiti last month with a group from our church helping at an orphanage (Our older son, Nathan, went there 2 years… — July 22, 2014

If you are into trash talking, you may want to check out my recently published article, " 'I Will Strike You down and Cut off Your Head' (1… — July 9, 2014

I couldn't talk for three hours. My wife forbade me. And I always do what she says. Habakkuk, Paul, YHWH and Jesus all think it's good to be… — July 2, 2014

Most of the decisions we make in life we don’t need help with—which shirt to wear to work today (I wear Garanimals), whether to keep reading this blog… — June 6, 2014

[vimeo 96337668 w=500 h=281] Church of Holy Sepulcher Vid from David Lamb on Vimeo. Tomorrow (May 25, 2014) at about noon ET in the US, the leaders of… — May 24, 2014

On April 14, 2014 more than 200 schoolgirls in NE Nigeria were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram. Today at our BTS faculty meeting we prayed over a… — May 14, 2014

I was speaking at the InterVarsity group at the University of Maryland on God Behaving Badly a few weeks ago, and I got to the end where I… — May 7, 2014

Here is the first of a series of blogs about our trip to Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Turkey and Greece, with folks from BTS: Walls, Tombs and Rocks:… — April 29, 2014

I head to Israel tomorrow (March 23) with folk from Biblical Seminary. There will be 15 of us: students, alumni and Derek Cooper, another professor. We'll spend 7 days… — March 22, 2014

 In 1985, when I was a grad student in Industrial Engineering at Stanford, I took a course on Organizational Death. Why do companies fail, and what lessons can… — February 24, 2014

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809.  If he weren't assassinated and didn't die for any other reason, he'd be 205 today. In the Old Testament, my field, people… — February 12, 2014

In Hiking Oyster Dome, Part 1, I told about my trip to Logos Bible Software in Washington state to tape two courses (1, 2, Samuel, and 1, 2 Kings).… — February 5, 2014

Recently, I was in Bellingham, Washington taping two courses for Logos Bible Software. For the sake of video consistency while taping each course, I needed to wear the… — February 4, 2014

"Goliath had as much chance against David...as an Bronze Age warrior with a sword would have had against an [opponent] armed with a .45 automatic pistol" argues historian… — February 3, 2014