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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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Extracurricular Activities 3.7.15 — Wright on Cranfield, Inerrancy Summit, & Racial Diversity
N.T. Wright's Obituary on C.B.E Cranfield
The Reverend Professor Charles E. B. Cranfield, who has died six months short of what would have b...
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Extracurricular Activities 2.28.15 — Diversity, the Church and Utopia, & Rural Churches
Michael Bird Explores Paula Fredrikson's Arguments on Paul and Justification
In the latest issue of JBL is an article by Paula Fredriksen on...
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Extracurricular Activities 2.21.15 — Another Flood Account, Martyrdom, and Sermon Illustrations
Tim Challies Review: Becoming Worldly Saints Recovers Balance in the Christian Life
The pushback against the radical Christian life is in fu...
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Extracurricular Activity 2.14.15 — Why Becoming a Worldly Saint is a Good Thing
Trevin Wax Interviews Michael Wittmer on New Book Becoming Worldly Saints
Trevin Wax: Your title is provocative. Becoming Worldly Saints is ...
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Extracurricular Activities 2.7.15 — The Trinity, NT Papyrus, and the Crusades
Michael Bird Asks, "Is the Trinity Biblical?"
In the most recent issues of JETS is a review by Jeffrey A. Stivason of my Evangelical Theolog...
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Extracurricular Activities 1.31.15 — Mark Mummy Redux, Post-Seculars, and Missions Trips
Justin Taylor Shares Biblical Reasons to Doubt Creation Days Were 24-Hours
R. C. Sproul, who drafted the original Chicago Statement of Bibli...
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Extracurricular Activities 1.24.15 —The Afterlife, the Mark Mummy Mask, What Would Kuyper Do?
Mike Wittmer Gives 4 Reasons to Stop Obsessing About Heaven
Alex Malarkey, who co-authored The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven, publicly conf...
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Extracurricular Activities 1.10.15 — Two Takes on the Newsweek Bible Article, Eschatology, More
Peter Enns Responds to Eichenwald’s Newsweek Article on The Bible
Kurt Eichenwald’s Christmas missive in Newsweek, “The Bible: So Misunderst...
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Extracurricular Activities 1.3.15 — The Law of Moses, Robert Alter, Moses Myth?
Justin Taylor Interviews David Dorsey on The Law of Moses and the Christian
A Q&A summary with David Dorsey’s essay, “The Law of Moses a...
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Extracurricular Activity 12.27.14 — Mary Mother of Jesus, Celebrity Faith, & Wesley and Pelagius
Scot McKnight Shares 10 Things He Wishes Everyone Knew about Mary
1. We know more about Mary than we do about almost everyone in the New Tes...
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Extracurricular Activities 12.20.14 — Race, Sexism, and "Exodus"
John Piper Shares 16 Thoughts on Discussing Race in the Church
On December 16, 2014, I was part of a conversation on racial harmony gathered...
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Extracurricular Activities 12.13.15—Pauline Studies Shift, Donald Bloesh's Soteriology, & Sexual Assault
McKnight Examines Major Shift in Pauline Studies: New Perspective on Paul vs. Apocalyptic Paul
Since 1977 there has been a regular conversat...
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Extracurricular Activities 12.6.14 — History & Providence, Early Church Art, and Evangelical Academic Publishing
Ben Witherington Reflects on Five Factors which Changed Church History
Scholars have often debated why it is that the church of Constantine’...
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Extracurricular Activities 11.29.14 — The Divine Persons, Hans Boersma, & Pentecostal Growth
Peter Leithart Asks, "Are the Divine Persons Persons?"
The “personalist” understanding of the Trinity, articulated most influentially in the...
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Extracurricular Activities 11.22.15 —Evangelistic Paralysis, Young Scholars & the Internet, and Sabbath
Scot McKnight Shares The Biggest Mistake in Kingdom Talk
The most common mistake I hear when people are talking about kingdom is comparison ...
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Extracurricular Activities 11.15.14 — Hebrews vs. Hellenists, Suicide and the Bible, & Sexual Orientation
Larry Hurtado Explores the Dubious Divide between "Hebrews" and "Hellenists"
It is a curiously widespread assumption that there was some maj...
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