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How to tell good Bible scholarship from bad: a practical guide

By The Context Bible team on June 2, 2026

Bible scholarship is a tool, like a microscope: it can reveal what's actually there or distort what isn't. A practical guide to the markers of good scholarship, the tells of bad scholarship, and how to read both with discernment.

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What is the "Berean approach" to Bible study?

By The Context Bible team on June 2, 2026

The Bereans of Acts 17 were called noble for receiving teaching eagerly and then searching the Scriptures daily to verify it. A practical guide to what their three-part discipline looks like for modern readers — and why it is the right model for using scholarship, history, and the early church alongside the Bible itself.

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