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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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Context is Essential - An Excerpt from Locating Atonement
Much has been written of late on the doctrine of atonement. At the beginning of Locating Atonement, the editors explain how this doctrine ca...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields — Build or Help Build (Zechariah 6:15)?
Two of the things to look for in interpreting the biblical text is the roles of God and of people (see Grasping God’s Word, chs. 3–5 for a ...
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A New Approach to Atonement Theory, Contra Typological or Combinational
A decade ago, two theologians controversially suggested some atonement theories border on “cosmic child abuse.” A few years later, another o...
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One Word Can Make All the Difference - Mondays with Mounce 272
I came across a couple interesting verses. My comments are not so much about grammar as they are about translation, but thought it would be ...
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God's Freedom - An Excerpt from The Holy Spirit
Today we continue our study of the third member of the Trinity. In The Holy Spirit, Chris Holmes takes up the questions surrounding the Spi...
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[Common Places] New Studies in Dogmatics: Barth’s Pneumatology in Christopher Holmes’s The Holy Spirit
Zondervan Academic’s New Studies in Dogmatics series launches this fall with its first volume, Christopher Holmes’s The Holy Spirit, which ...
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3 Misconceptions of One of the Most Unknown, Fruitful Theological Ideas
Molinism and the doctrinal equivalent of scientia media (middle knowledge) is perhaps one of the more fruitful Reformation-era theological t...
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eBook Sale: NIV Application Commentaries Just $4.99
Discover the Bible through this commentary series that helps with both halves of the interpretive task - bringing an ancient message into a ...
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Can you have a “twice Sabbath” (Luke 18:12)? - Mondays with Mounce 271
This phrase in Luke gives us a great example of how words have bundles of meanings, and you have to move beyond the one or two word glosses ...
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South Asian Understandings of the Holy Spirit - An Excerpt from South Asia Bible Commentary
The South Asia Bible Commentary is unique in that it is written by South Asian scholars for South Asian readers. Not only a one volume comme...
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How to Study the Bible More Completely & Worship More Deeply
“Bible study isn’t complete until it results in worship.”
So insists Lee Fields, a regular contributor to this space and the co-author of a...
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Save Over 80% on Grudem's SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Allison's HISTORICAL THEOLOGY
Celebrating Reformation week, we are excited to offer a 2-day flash sale:
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Coming Soon: Online Courses from Zondervan Academic
UPDATE: Zondervan Academic Online Courses are now available. Get the story here.
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Have you heard the news? Zondervan Academic and BibleMe...
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Meet Alvin Plantinga - An Excerpt from Awakening the Evangelical Mind
"Evangelicals, once associated with an uncritical, anti-intellectual state of mind, have in the last several decades reentered the academy."...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields — Whose Son is Zechariah?
The name Zechariah was a common name in the period of the Old Testament, belonging to 30 or more men in the OT (see “Zechariah” in the Zonde...
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4 Principles of the Evangelical Mind Modeled by a Little-Known Evangelical
Forty years ago Newsweek declared 1976 as the year of the evangelical. My how things have changed.
What’s happened? One reason, perhaps, is ...
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