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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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eBook Sale: Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary, Old Testament - $4.99 Each
The Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary, Old Testament series has just been released into eBook format.
For this week only, ...
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What Happened Between the Old and New Testaments? 4 Things You Need to Know to Read the New Testament Well
Have you ever wondered what happened between the Old and New Testaments?
If you’ve ever flipped from the last page of the Old Testament t...
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[Common Places]: Reading Notes: Christocentrism
A theology is christocentric when its method, structure, arguments, and goals are oriented around the theologian’s account of the person an...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields — When Does What Happen? Verb Shifts in Ps 24:2–6
There is debate about the nature of Hebrew verbs. Are they primarily tenses, moods, or aspects? I follow the view that aspect is not the mo...
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Why Did Paul Write Romans? Michael Bird Offers 5 Possible Reasons
Like many practitioners, my shelves groan under the weight of a cohort of Romans commentators, including: Cranfield, Dunn, Fitzmyer, Jewett,...
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Abuse of Male Headship - An Excerpt from Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife
In her upcoming book Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife, Ruth Tucker recounts her story of abuse at the hands of her husband, in hop...
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Tremper Longman on Genesis’ Theological Message and the Story of God
Genesis. What a fascinating book. And not a little controversial! It’s also profoundly “theologically rich,” according to Tremper Longman II...
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Is Paul’s apostolic call for God’s sake? (Rom 1:5) - Mondays with Mounce 283
One of the difficult tasks in translation is how to order phrases. In English, we use proximity to connect ideas. Consider the NIV on Rom 1:...
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eBook Sale – I "Heart" Theology
Well known research shows that theology books top most wish-lists on Valentine's Day. In an effort to make Valentine's Day shopping ...
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Live The Story - An Excerpt From Romans (The Story of God Bible Commentary Series)
Continuing after last week's excerpt from the Genesis commentary, this week we will read an excerpt from the Romans commentary on Romans 12:...
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[Common Places] James K. A. Smith’s Desiring the Kingdom and Imagining the Kingdom: A Gospels Perspective
Michael Allen introduced this series of Common Places on J. K. A. Smith’s Cultural Liturgies project by noting that at its heart, Smith’s p...
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The Companion to Accordance, BibleWorks, & Logos You’ve Been Missing
Cutting-edge Bible software has opened up Scripture like never before. Yet academic institutions have responded in one of two ways: either r...
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Common Sense to the Rescue (James 3:7) - Mondays with Mounce 282
I came across an interesting Greek conundrum in small group tonight. James is talking about the tongue and its power to destroy.
He writes, ...
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Live the Story - An Excerpt From Genesis (The Story of God Bible Commentary Series)
The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible’s grand story. The first commenta...
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Is Mark's Gospel 'Theological'? These 7 Themes Affirm It Is!
Some have dismissed Mark’s gospel as nothing more than the work of an unsophisticated storyteller, lacking in theological profundity. In fac...
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eBook SALE: Bethlehem Conference for Pastors & Church Leaders
Celebrating the Bethlehem Conference for Pastors and Church Leaders this week, we have collected 18 pastoral resources for an ebook sale!
eB...
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