by Andy Roland | Mar 19, 2026 | Bible, Jesus
THE POLITICS OF JESUS JESUS’ TIMES Jesus lived in turbulent times. It was just a hundred years before his birth that his region, (Galil Goyim means ‘Region of the Gentiles’) was conquered by the brutal Jewish king Aristobolus I and the population forcibly converted to...
by Andy Roland | Jan 20, 2026 | Bible, Jesus
JESUS AND MONEY ‘Jesus the Troublemaker’ is a novel I wrote about the last eight days of Jesus’ life. He spent at least four days teaching in the Temple doing that period, so I included an earlier typical incident from Luke. A young man says his...
by Andy Roland | Jan 14, 2025 | Bible, History of Israel and Judah
Between the Testaments What happened between the end of the Old Testament and the birth of Jesus? Answer, a lot! There are detailed accounts in the Apocrypha of the revolt of the Maccabees in 167 BCE. In fact if it hadn’t been for them, Galilee would...
by Andy Roland | Oct 21, 2024 | Bible
THE NEW ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND ALL THE REST! MY LIFE WITH THE BIBLE When I was born there was in effect only one translation of the Bible normally available, the Authorised Version of 1611 (AV), a wonderful poetic translation using the best scholarship of the...
by Andy Roland | Aug 21, 2024 | Bible, Paul
LOVE ACTUALLY WHAT IS LOVE? The film ‘Love Actually’ is a great movie. It’s funny, sad, heartwarming, hopeful. And it shows many different aspects of love. We see love and longing, love and delight, love and fear, love and grief, love and betrayal....
