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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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Win a Free ZIBBCOT Volume to Review!
We are interested in sparking some conversations on the recently-released Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary: Old Testamen...
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Bruce Waltke - New Paper on Evolutionary Process
Bruce Waltke has a new paper posted on The Biologos Foundation website, "Barriers to Accepting the Possibility of Creation by Means of...
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Read John Walton on Genesis (from ZIBBCOT) for FREE!
For the entire month of October, enjoy browsing the entire commentary on Genesis for FREE on Scribd. We'll be posting additional...
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Three Views on the New Testament use of the Old Testament
Darrell Bock, Walt Kaiser, and Pete Enns
Darrell Bock, Walt Kaiser, and Pete Enns
Here's a new video from the ZA studio. Have you read this one yet? Are you using it in class? What do you think?
--Andrew
How does the...
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Douglas Estes - "Why Is the Bible Hard to Understand?"
I am convinced the Bible is at times just plain hard to understand. When I was younger, I thought that most people who had a hard time und...
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The Necromancer from Endor - John Walton and Phil Long
Saul’s visit to the so-called "witch" of Endor in 1 Samuel 28 provides one of the most mysterious and troubling accounts in th...
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Solomon's Dream at Gibeon
by John Walton and Fred Mabie
by John Walton and Fred Mabie
While people today experience dreams all the time, we don’t often give them the serious attention as in the ancient world, where they were ...
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Tremper Longman III - On Old Testament Studies
Tremper Longman III (PhD, Yale University) is the Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies and the chair of the religious studies ...
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Jezebel Killing the Prophets
When we read a text like 1 Kings 18:4 about Jezebel killing the prophets, it is not surprising that what comes to mind is the religious per...
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Elijah's Contest
The familiar story in 1 Kings 18 offers clear evidence of Yahweh’s power over Baal, but much greater perspectives are available when we und...
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Miles Van Pelt - Why Do I Invest in the Biblical Languages?
Miles V. Van Pelt (Ph.D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is associate professor of Old Testament and Academic Dean at Reformed The...
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V. Phillips Long on Ancient Kings Chosen By Deity
The stories of Saul and David in the Bible make it clear that the Lord was the one who chose the king, and the people expected him to do th...
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Hannah's Prayer (1 Sam. 2) by V. Phillips Long
Hannah’s prayer in response to having given birth to a son (1 Sam. 2:1-10) is full of concepts reflecting the realities and beliefs of the ...
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Polygamy by V. Phillips Long
When we read the Bible it is easy for us to think that marriage was ordained from the beginning (Genesis 2) and that marriage ethics and cu...
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Now, About all that Killing...by Robert L. Hubbard Jr.
Joshua part 3
Bam! That’s the mental sound I imagine readers hear when they read the book of Joshua for the first time. Let’s be honest: re...
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Joshua: The Movie by Robert L. Hubbard Jr.
Joshua part 2
Actually, there’s no "Joshua" movie …. I just wrote that to get your attention! ;-)
But if there were, its hero wo...
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