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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Strauss Believes Mark's Structure Isn't What You Think it Is
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Mark Strauss, author...
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Mark’s Gospel is Jesus's Story on Steroids! — An Excerpt from Mark Strauss's "Mark (ZECNT)" Commentary
In recent decades there has been a number of new approaches to the gospel, one of which is so-called narrative criticism. Considering how s...
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Narrative Criticism and Mark: Approaching the Gospel as Story
I am a novelist as well as a theologian. (In fact, after writing this I’m off to fulfill today’s word count goal for NaNoWriMo, National Nov...
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