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Hélène M. Dallaire discusses Mastering Biblical Hebrew
HÉLÈNE M. DALLAIRE (PhD, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) is Earl S. Kalland Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages and Chair of the Old Testament Depar...
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Paul's Theology of Work
Probably one of the pieces of First and Second Thessalonians that has really captured my interest is the way that Paul talks about work. I u...
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Who wrote Jonah?
The book of Jonah is anonymous. We really don't have any idea who wrote it and the book doesn't really offer any clues as to who might have ...
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Is Paul anti-Jewish in 1 Thessalonians 2?
There's a particular section of 1 Thessalonians 2, where Paul talks about Jews that have persecuted the prophets and Jesus and are making tr...
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The meaning of 1 Thessalonians 5:17: What it means to "pray without ceasing"
Paul believed that prayer was interaction with God with our spirit to God's Spirit. When a device pairs with something there's this kind of ...
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What 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 says about the rapture
It's helpful to know the rapture doctrine did not develop until very late in Christian history, only within the last couple hundred years. S...
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Did Solomon write Song of Songs?
One of the big questions related to the book is who wrote the Song of Songs. And there are really two options. Either, it was Solomon or som...
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Who wrote 1 & 2 Thessalonians?
When you read 1 and 2 Thessalonians, it seems pretty obvious that the Apostle Paul wrote them because his name is at the beginning of both t...
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What is Majority Text Theory?
The Majority Text theory is quite different from those who embrace the textus receptis. Although often they are mingled together.
By s...
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Where is Nineveh?
Where is the city of Ninevah?
If you get out a modern map, look for the city of Mosul because the city of Mosul is actually located i...
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Who wrote the Psalms?
As you read through the Psalms, the first thing you'll notice is a number of the headings of the Psalms will say, "of David", or "by David",...
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Gnosticism: Where It Comes From, What It Teaches, and How Christians Should Respond Today
Gnosticism is not a specific heretical movement in church history but rather a loose collection of different religious beliefs. Gnosis is th...
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What is Textus Receptus?
Textus Receptus
means "received text." It is the name given to the Greek New Testament published by Erasmus.
The name first appeared in a...
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What Is (And Isn't) Heresy?
Traditionally, a heretic is someone who has compromised an essential doctrine and lost sight of who God really is, usually by oversimplifica...
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What is textual criticism?
Textual criticism is the discipline that, it's both a science and an art that has as it's fundamental goal to reconstruct the wording of an ...
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The Story of Codex Vaticanus
Codex Vaticanus is a manuscript that is equally as old as Codex Sinaiticus. It was found to be in the first library catalog list at the Vati...
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Why should you read James?
The practical vision of James
Why should Christians read the book of James? Well, for one, it's part of our new testament. It's part of our...
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