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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Top Seven Scholarly Books (Not Commentaries) on James* by Craig L. Blomberg
*So Far This Decade!
Commentaries on biblical books usually get a lot more attention than other works, especially more scholarly ones. Havi...
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Hebraic Genitives—1 Tim 1:11 (Monday with Mounce 24)
Paul is instructing Timothy (and his Ephesian opponents) on the proper use of the law, listing to whom the "thou shalt not" of th...
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NT Greek CD Review
Daniel over at "Text, Community & Mission" has posted a review about Johnathan Pennington's New Testament Greek Vocabular...
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Do we need Backgrounds study?
Background studies involve research into history, archaeology, geography, manners and customs, and ancient literature. Sometimes such stu...
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Pay to Play: Discussing Paul's Roman Citizenship
by Lynn Cohick
by Lynn Cohick
"Pay to Play" has become a catch-phrase in the Chicago-land area where I live. Our governor has been impeached by the State House...
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Keep Your Greek
Constantine Campbell of Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek fame is starting a series on his own blog called "Keep Your Greek.&...
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New Video Interview with New Testament in Antiquity Authors
In just a few weeks, we will have copies of The New Testament in Antiquity in our warehouse. Engaging, academically robust, richly il...
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A Reader's Greek New Testament
Have you had a chance to look at A Reader's Greek New Testament yet? If not check out this post on GoingToSeminary.com, Terry De...
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What Christmas Is All About — By Ajith Fernando
I have just returned from a year-end programme at one of our centres. Though a majority of those at the programme were youth, there were a...
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The Uniqueness of Jesus' Birth
By Darrell Bock
By Darrell Bock
One thing we can always trust about the Christmas season is that there will be a report in the press that challenges traditional Christian...
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Knowing When to Quit - and Five Other Values of Jesus — By Ronald T. Habermas
When talk comes around to Jesus’ diverse ministries – especially those upholding the dignity of humans – many of us recall our Lord’s advoc...
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Basics of Verbal Aspect
Reviews List
Reviews List
I wanted to add one final post to last's week's series on The Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek. Listed below are a n...
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James 5 (Commentary and Discussion with Craig L. Blomberg
Over a period of five weeks, we've asked Craig Blomberg and Mariam Kamell to blog through the book of James. Their commentary, the fi...
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Basics of Verbal Aspect: 5 of 5
by Constantine Campbell
by Constantine Campbell
Verbal aspect and exegesis
Most of us learn Greek in order to read the Greek New Testament, to deepen our understanding of the text, and t...
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Basics of Verbal Aspect: 4 of 5
by Constantine Campbell
by Constantine Campbell
Verbal aspect and the present indicative
The present tense-form is regarded as imperfective in aspect. Imperfective aspect provides the ...
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Basics of Verbal Aspect: 3 of 5
by Constantine Campbell
by Constantine Campbell
Verbal aspect and the aorist indicative
Having set up some theoretical categories in my first two posts, I’ll now offer a brief introducti...
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