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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ORIGINALISM and ORIGINAL INTENT OF DOCUMENTS
by Walter C. Kaiser
by Walter C. Kaiser
Old topics have a way of recyling and coming back on themselves.  What goes around often comes around.
 
When Moises Silva and ...
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Don't Stop Believing 4 of 5: Christians, the Economy and Plato
by Michael E. Wittmer
by Michael E. Wittmer
I used to laugh at the advertisements for no-money down, interest only, adjustable rate mortgages. Who in their right mind would take out a...
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Don't Stop Believing 3 of 5: The Bottom Line
by Michael E. Wittmer
by Michael E. Wittmer
My new book, Don’t Stop Believing: Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough, examines the most hotly contested issues of our day: Is it possible...
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Don't Stop Believing 2 of 5: A Third Way
by Michael E. Wittmer
by Michael E. Wittmer
Dick Morris popularized the concept of “triangulation,” by which he advised the Clinton administration to co-opt the strengths of both Repub...
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The Definite Article and 1 Timothy 4:13 (Monday with Mounce 15)
by Bill Mounce
by Bill Mounce
The word that we call the "definite article" in Greek is a slippery fellow. Many of its uses in English overlap with that of Greek...
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Don't Stop Believing 1 of 5: Communicate without Compromise
by Michael E. Wittmer
by Michael E. Wittmer
This week on Koinonia Michael Wittmer (PhD, Calvin Theological Seminary) will be posting every day on topics related to his new book, Don...
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ETS Day 2 by Bill Mounce
ETS is now over and many of the people have move on to Boston to attend IBR (Institute of Biblical Research) and SBL (Society of Biblical L...
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ETS Day 1 by Bill Mounce
  
Greetings from the first day of the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. We are in Providence, Rhode Isla...
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Daniel Wallace's dissertation now available
My doctoral dissertation, which dealt essentially with Granville Sharp's rule, has been significantly updated and finally published. Sev...
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Basics of Verbal Aspect
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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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Word study on ekklesia ("church") — Monday with Mounce 15
A few years ago I heard a man announce that we have worked through the worship wars and that the next war would be in the area of ecclesiol...
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Hebrew Corner 12: Cain's Sacrifice
by John H. Walton
by John H. Walton
In popular circles the tradition that Cain’s offering was unacceptable because it was not a blood sacrifice is still very common, despite ...
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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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