“You are the one Israel praises” (Psalm 22:3–5): The Artful Hebrew Bible In the previous post we introduced three basic principles of studying Hebrew poetry: poetic lines, parallelism, and rhythm. Let’s continue looking at the poetry of Psalm 22. Two quick remind...

Does anyone say "unto" anymore? (Luke 2:11) - Mondays with Mounce Every once in a while I come across a phrase that makes no sense in English, even in the NIV. I expect it more with translations like the NASB and ESV, but not the NIV. When this happens, it...

More Words Than Differences among the New Testament Manuscripts. Part 1. Prof Bart Ehrman is famous for his rhetorically powerful statement that there are more differences among the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament than there are words. It is true that ther...