Back in the 1970’s one of my very best students, if not the very best, at Eckerd College was David Jenkins. Since that time David and I have remained close friends. He went on to do a M.Div. degree at Duke and a Ph.D. degree at Loyola University in Chicago. David initially enrolled at the…

The term “Apocrypha” designates 15 books of the Greek translation of the Old Testament which often were considered of questionable origin but were nonetheless included in the Bible by the early translators beginning in around 300 BCE. Up until the turn of the 20th Century these books were taken to be valid and authoritative books…