The parts of the story that come after the part everyone remembers.
Full retellings, grounded in the text, with the historical context left in rather than trimmed out.
The assassination hidden in plain sight in the book of Judges
Buried in the early chapters of Judges, long before Samson or Gideon, is one of the most detailed and least-discussed scenes in the entire Old Testament: a planned, close-range assassination of a…
The massacre David called off — and the woman who talked him out of it
Years before he was king, David was a fugitive commanding a few hundred armed men in the wilderness, surviving in part on the goodwill of local landowners he and his men had…
The prophet who won everything and then asked to die
A day before this story starts, Elijah had just won the most lopsided contest in the Old Testament. Four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal built an altar, danced, cut themselves, and…
Jonah got his sequel — and skipped it
Everyone knows the fish. It's the part of Jonah that ends up in every children's Bible and every Sunday school flannelgraph. What almost never gets told is what happens after Jonah gets…
The riddle Samson bet thirty men he couldn’t lose
Before there was a haircut, there was a riddle. Long before Samson lost his strength to a woman named Delilah, he lost thirty sets of clothing to a riddle he told at…