Joel Baden

Joel Baden is a professor of the Hebrew Bible at the Yale Divinity School.

Adam Voorhes

Can Hobby Lobby Buy the Bible?

In just the past six years, the evangelical owners of Hobby Lobby have amassed one of the world’s largest private collections of biblical antiquities. Why?
- Joel Baden and Candida Moss
- January/February 2016 Issue
Ronen Zvulun / Reuters

Why Scientists and Scholars Can't Get Their Facts Straight

The ongoing dispute over the authenticity of a scrap of papyrus from the ancient world highlights a larger question of how history is established.
- Joel Baden and Candida Moss
- September 10, 2015
Mark Pernice

The Curious Case of Jesus’s Wife

Lab tests have suggested that a papyrus scrap mentioning Jesus’s wife is authentic. Why do most scholars believe it’s fake?
- Joel Baden and Candida Moss
- December 2014 Issue