Artifice is defined as “a sly or artful trick” 1 and is regularly found in fiction literature, when an author informs a reader what charact...

If it were possible to step into a time machine and travel back to the first-century, you would immediately be disappointed. There were no C...

My title is rather broad and lacks in specificity; hence, I begin with a few definitions. “A narrative is a spoken or written account of con...

I begin with two definitions: Euphemism: “The substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend.” Dis...

The early twentieth-century New Testament Scholar, C. H. Dodd, argued that "the measure of any authority which the Bible may possess ...

One hallmark of narrative fiction, which distinguishes the writing of fiction from the writing of history, is the novelist's ability t...

A motif frequently appearing in literature is "journey to a distant land." The content of the destination changes with the ideas...

Every culture has legends.  Readers will recall the legends about Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe, John Henry the railroad pile-driving ...

Does the flesh-and-blood author of the Gospel of John respect the difference between historical information and personal religious confess...

The answer would, in part, depend on the reliability of the sources used by the author. John, however, is the latest Gospel dating near th...