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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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Should We Capitalize Divine Pronouns? — Mondays with Mounce 305
I am often asked why the ESV and NIV don’t capitalize “divine pronouns,” pronouns referring to God. For example, “For we are His workmanship...
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5 Disputed Books in the Old Testament
The church hasn’t always agreed on the value of certain canonized books. Martin Luther famously wanted Hebrews, James, Jude and Revelation r...
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Why Did Matthew Write His Gospel? Here Are 4 Possible Reasons
Rodney Reeves thinks asking questions of the Bible is important and relevant to preaching and teaching. So he introduces his new Matthew com...
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Who Were the Minor Prophets?
The Minor Prophets is a collection of twelve Old Testament books, known simply as “the Twelve” or “the Book of the Twelve” in the Hebrew Bib...
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Katherine Sonderegger on the Task of Dogmatic Theology: “The Bible is…”
What is the Bible and what is its place within the task of dogmatic theology, particularly issues of method?
That was the question theologia...
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Who Did the Miracle? (Mark 6:41) - Mondays with Mounce 304
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I am a bit hesitant to make the point below since I can’t find a commentary t...
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Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design
Discoveries in cosmology, paleontology, and genomics has considerably changed the context for the creation-evolution debate in the last two ...
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Is There an Evangelical Bias in Translation (Mark 5:23) - Mondays with Mounce 303
Sometimes we translators are accused of having an evangelical bias, of altering the translation of a passage to make the New Testament not c...
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Bible Software Sale: Word Biblical Commentary & More
The Word Biblical Commentary and select other commentaries and Bible reference titles are on sale right now at Logos, Accordance, WORDsearch...
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Academic eBooks Sale 2017: Save up to 77%
Gender roles. Evolution. Hell. The Holy Spirit, the voice of Scripture, and more. Check out our academic eBooks sale today and save up to 77...
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Translating the Word but Missing the Context (Mark 5:4) - Mondays with Mounce 302
Mark 5:4 has an interesting construction with διά, and provides an example of why we need to watch the larger context when translating. Vers...
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Does Sanctification Have Any Place in the Economy of the Gospel?
While the Protestant Church is coming off from a week celebrating the Reformation rallying cry “justification by grace through faith,” we ne...
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When καί Is a Comma, and Deceptive Marketing (Mark 3:16–19) - Mondays with Mounce 301
One of the differences between Greek and English style is in expressing a series. When English translations mimic Greek style, they are writ...
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Some Bible commentaries ta...
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Should Your Church Go Multisite? Is it Biblical?
It seems everybody is doing it these days, but is this the right solution for your congregation?
In today's excerpt from MultiChurch, author...
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3 Reasons Why Catholics and Protestants Interpret Scripture Differently
While Protestants are celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Catholic professor Matthew Levering is asking a basic-level ques...
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