Paroikos Bible Blog

* *Corrected "per page" to per paper" on 3/11/2026.**  I was interested to discover a new online journal the other day, Promi...

I was surprised the other day to find an article in a journal abbreviated "AGNTS." I was not familiar with that acronym, and as a ...

I am grateful that the latest issue of JETS  contains my second article on the book of Esther: Paul A. Himes, "A Touch of Wisdom: The L...

(The buildings of Boston, just outside of South Station, around midnight on Nov. 17th/18th. Photo taken by Paul Himes) This past month I was...

Some time ago I wrote " Peer-Reviewed Journals Pt 2: The Top 100+ Academic Journals for Biblical Studies ," which has turned out t...

Even as a professor at a relatively small Bible college, I acknowledge that I still live in the "Ivory Tower," so to speak. The ma...

  I am excited to announce that the first volume in the brand-new Studies in Judeo-Christian Thought Monograph Series (SJCTMS) has now been ...

Plagiarism at a minimum exposes a certain degree of sloppiness in a student and at worst reveals a serious character flaw that needs to be d...

I confess that I am not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, so to speak, when it comes to keeping up with matters of digital copyright and...

Recently I was privileged to be featured on Matthew Ralston's podcast, "Createdverse." We discussed the principle of the ...

Update: mistake corrected 11/20/2025 In my past 4 years at BCM, I have had the privilege of teaching Revelation as a 2-credit, upper-level e...