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r/AcademicBiblical is a subreddit with 129k members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is huge in size, and has high activity.
This is a forum for discussion of academic biblical studies; including historical criticism, textual criticism, and the history of ancient Judaism, early Christianity and the ancient Near East. This subreddit is not for contemporary theological application. Faith-based comments, discussion of modern religion, and apologetics are prohibited.
Popular Themes in r/AcademicBiblical
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Advice Requests
: "Religion for Breakfast's Video on The Greco-Roman Origins of the Eucharist"
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Money Talk
: "My unreal used book haul only $10 total"
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Popular Topics in r/AcademicBiblical
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Jesus
: "I guess my question is how Christian theology went from God saying in Mark 1 “This is my son, whom I love. With him I am well pleased.” to “Jesus and God are the same being”.?"
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#2
Bible
: "What is the most interesting thing we DON'T know about the Bible?"
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#3
Gospels
: "Is the consensus that the Gospels are traditional ancient biographies?"
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#4
New Testament
: "how did the old testament end up bound to the New Testament in the christian biblical canon?"
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#5
Genesis
: "Why is Genesis 1:1 translated as “when God began” rather than the traditional “in the beginning”"
8 posts
#6
Gospel
: "How did early Greeks respond when they found out about the Gospel?"
6 posts
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Old Testament
: "how did the Old Testament end up bound to the new testament in the christian biblical canon?"
5 posts
#8
Empty Tomb
: "How do scholars who DO accept the historicity of the Empty Tomb take the comparisons of apotheosis in Greco-Roman mythology to Jesus's resurrection?"
5 posts
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Paul
: "Where did Paul get his purity sexual ethics?"
4 posts
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Resurrection
: "Since Paul believed Jesus was raised into a pneumatic body, would he have disagreed with gJohn’s teaching that Jesus still had wounds in his hands and side after his Resurrection?"
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