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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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Who is God’s Temple? (Monday with Mounce 5)
Key Passage: 1 Cor 3:16-17
It is always interesting to compare languages. There are some things so basic to one language that it feels stran...
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by John H. Walton" class="t-blog-listing__feed-title">Hebrew Corner 2: "deep sleep"
by John H. Walton
by John H. Walton
In the last Hebrew Corner I talked about the fact that there are still Hebrew words that we are learning more about--words that seem at one...
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The past, present, and future of evangelicalism--20 years ago
There are plenty of reasons to explore the media archive at the Henry Center. Some (recently added?) footage there explores the past, prese...
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Monday with Mounce 4: Semicolons and Translation by Bill Mounce
Passage: Romans 9:4
In a world of dwindling sentence length and complex sentence structures, the semi-colon has fallen on hard times. It is...
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by John H. Walton" class="t-blog-listing__feed-title">Hebrew Corner 1: "Deception"
by John H. Walton
by John H. Walton
One of the constant challenges of exegesis involves the understanding of words. Most Bible readers are dependent on translations and so mu...
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The Olympics, Lausanne III, and the New Creation — By Christopher J. H. Wright
Well, the Olympics have come and gone. As a Brit, I am happy that our team in Beijing won more medals than at any Olympics for 100 years and...
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Monday with Mounce 4: Quotation Marks and Translation by William D. Mounce
Passage: Romans 3:27
I’ve been musing on the role of punctuation in translation, and last week we looked at the dash in Romans 3:25. In v 27...
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Reclaiming the Old Testament in the Church — By John H. Walton
What would account for how few sermons are preached on the Old Testament? Its canonical status is no less than that of the New Testament, a...
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Word Study: Koinonia 3
This past weekend I watched portions of the Saddleback Civil Forum, where Rick Warren interviewed the two presidential candidates. The...
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A Dead Sea Scroll in Stone — Walter C. Kaiser Jr.
Quite a stir has been fomented in recent weeks over what is being nick-named "A Dead Sea Scroll in Stone." This three-foot-tall tablet of 8...
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Monday with Mounce 3: Punctuation (dashes) By Bill Mounce
Verse: Romans 3:25
I don’t think I have ever been in a Greek class — either as a student or a teacher — in which punctuation was discussed a...
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Digitally Preserving Ancient Christian Scriptures
By Daniel B. Wallace
By Daniel B. Wallace
Almost as soon as the spring semester concluded, I’ve been on the go. On May 23, I went to Albania for a week, then to Greece for three week...
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On China — By Tremper Longman III
In the past year I had the incredible privilege of teaching a course on Torah and Wisdom at the University of Peking in Beijing and then to ...
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Word Study: Koinonia 2
"There is nothing like the local church when the church is being the church." - Bill Hybels
Last week I attended the Willow ...
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Monday with Mounce 2: Prepositions and Christology by William D. Mounce
Passage: 1 Timothy 1:2
Key terms: Prepositions, Christology, deity
“Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord” (...
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Demystifying Bible Translation and Where Our Culture Is with Inclusive Language — By Craig Blomberg
Last month I was initiated into the work of the NIV/TNIV Committee on Bible Translation. We met for five days and worked for forty hours at...
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