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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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Kostenberger's Johannine theology reviewed in Bible Study Magazine
The team over at Bible Study Magazine shared their new review of Andreas Kostenberger's A Theology of John's Gospel and Letters with...
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Alister McGrath's new children's fiction series. Fantasy meets theology.
THEOLOGY, SCIENCE, & A VERY BAD CASE OF SERIOUSNESS
Have you ever been to a church service where the pastor steps out in front of the p...
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The Biblical Languages in Life and Ministry (Monday with Mounce 71)
My friend Marc
Cortez wrote this blog on the Western
Seminary's blog site and I thought it is worth reposting here in its entirety. I l...
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2 Thess 2:13—What do Prepositions Modify? (Monday with Mounce 70)
Sometimes it can be tricky to hook a
preposition up to the word it is modifying. In the example of 2 Thess 2:13, in
the commentaries I chec...
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Classical and Koine on “New” (Monday with Mounce 69)
Language changes. It is one of the undeniable, universal truths of reality. Events can slow the development of a language down, like the Kin...
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Off Topic: Greek Final Exam & BibleGateway (Monday with Mounce 68)
This is a totally off-topic blog, but there are two things that I wanted to share with you.
 
If you are a student headed toward final...
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1 Cor 7:5 — Prayer and Fasting (Monday with Mounce 67)
The other day I spoke briefly about textual criticism and
why the Greek texts behind the King James Version (and the NKJV) and all modern
t...
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Titus 1:6—Are Elder's Children "Believers” or “Faithful”? (Monday with Mounce 66)
Most of the requirements for church leadership are
straight forward.
Each person is to be above reproach, and among other things
this means...
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Zondervan Nominated for ECPA Christian Book Awards
Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, GLO among others
The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) announced the finalists for th...
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Rom 4:25—Christ’s Death and Our Justification (Monday with Mounce 65)
Prepositions can be nasty things. Part of the problem is that the meaning of some can be quite fluid, hard to nail down. But the advantage o...
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Blog Tour this week: "Your Church is Too Small" by John Armstrong
The Your Church is Too Small blog tour takes place this week across the blogosphere. John Armstrong and over 75 others will be discussing t...
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Where Did v 4 Go in John 5:4? (Monday with Mounce 64)
My wife Robin came home from a Christian speakers
conference yesterday and told me about a discussion they had. John 5 was the
passage unde...
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Complete "Job" commentary by Izak Cornelius on Scribd
Izak Cornelius authored the "Job" commentary in the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary: Old Testament. It's av...
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2 Tim 2:25—Grant Repentance (Monday with Mounce 63)
Paul tells Timothy that he must stay away from senseless controversies, not be quarrelsome but rather kind, patiently enduring evil. Paul ...
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What’s an Anacoluthon? (Monday with Mounce 62)
I went in to see the doctor a while back and he said that
I had, well, I didn’t know the word he used. It was too long and Latin-based. I
as...
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Christopher J.H. Wright: "The Mission of God's People"
Coming in September of 2010 we'll be releasing Christopher J.H. Wright's new book, The Mission of God's People: A Biblical Theo...
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