RABBIT ROOM APOLOGETICS · MARC BATES
Pull Up a Chair.
Serious Theology. Open Conversation.
A quieter place for bigger questions—where Scripture is studied in its ancient context and serious biblical scholarship becomes conversation.
Welcome to the Rabbit Room
A brief introduction to the questions, scholarship, and conversation you’ll find here.
Choose How You Want to Engage
The same scholarship, approached in the format that fits the moment.
READ
The academic paper: full argumentation, citations, references, and the details behind the conclusion.
WATCH
A concise visual explainer that makes the central argument accessible without flattening the scholarship.
LISTEN
A conversational audio discussion for working through the ideas wherever you happen to be.
Explore the Library
Enter through a question, a biblical book, or a sustained line of argument.
Studies
Biblical theology, apologetics, Christology, history, ethics, and more.
Biblical Commentary
Chapter-by-chapter study across the whole biblical canon.
Islam, Politics & Polemics
Historically grounded, textually rigorous engagement with religious and public claims.
NEW FROM THE LIBRARY
Latest Articles
The five newest article guides, updated automatically.
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Salt, Light, and Deeds: The Triadic Public Witness of the Church within the Promise-Plan of God
Matthew 5:13–16 presents salt, light, and good deeds as a unified pattern for the church’s public witness. This study relates covenant distinctiveness, visible mercy,… Open the article guide
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Heaven on Renewed Earth
Western Christian eschatology and anthropology have often absorbed a post-biblical dualism that pictures salvation as the flight of immortal souls from a disposable planet.… Open the article guide
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Decoding Muhammad’s Original Mandate
This essay re-examines the Qurʾān’s self-description of Muḥammad’s commission against the later Standard Islamic Narrative and against Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s promise-plan reading of… Open the article guide
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Beyond the Threshold of Mortality
Contemporary Christian eschatology and theological anthropology are frequently pulled toward one of two reductions: a physicalist collapse of the person into neurobiology, or a… Open the article guide
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Exodus 7: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
Exodus 7 marks a critical transition in redemptive history, shifting the narrative from Moses’ initial hesitation and administrative preparations to the active, public execution… Open the article guide
Why the Rabbit Room?
Some of the best theological conversations happen after the formal lecture ends—around a table, with time to ask another question. Rabbit Room Apologetics is built in that spirit: serious scholarship without the distance of the lecture hall.