The Contours of the Land in Israel's History
The Land of Palestine
The land of Palestine took its name from the Philistines (the Pelishtim in Hebrew) who settled along the Mediterranean coast from Joppa to Gaza about 1300–12...
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Embodying the Hospitable Kingdom Community - An Excerpt from Reading Romans in Context
One of the most common themes found in Romans is the debate surrounding eating food sacrificed to idols. That may not mean much to us today...
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Extrabiblical Sources as Context - An Excerpt from Reading Romans in Context
How best should we approach extrabiblical sources when studying Scripture? That is the question asked in today’s excerpt from Reading Roman...
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Wednesday Giveaway - Jesus, the Middle Eastern Storyteller
Jesus often spoke in parables, telling stories to share his message of the Kingdom.
Unfortunately, the meaning of these stories is often ...
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Wednesday Giveaway - Old Testament Today
The Old Testament is fascinating, but how can we understand what the significance is of these ancient texts today, when we are separated by...
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Wednesday Giveaway - NIVAC Romans
Few books of the Bible have become so central to Christian thought and practice as Romans. From Augustine, to Luther, to Barth, many of the...
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Tennent on African Christianity
"At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the typical "face" of Christianity may more likely be encountered in Lagos than in...
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Wednesday Giveaway: Is There a Meaning in This Text?
This week’s giveaway is a classic, a special tenth anniversary edition of Kevin Vanhoozer’s Is There a Meaning in This Text?. Featuring a n...
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Christian Engagement with the Arts
“Filmmakers, screenwriters, artists, poets, and writers shape the thinking and values of a generation. Shakespeare recognized the transform...
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On China — By Tremper Longman III
In the past year I had the incredible privilege of teaching a course on Torah and Wisdom at the University of Peking in Beijing and then to ...
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