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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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Get Your Beard On: An eBook Sale of Bearded Christian Authors
Yes, you read that right: A sale of spectacular reads by your favorite bearded Christian authors!
We're calling it the Get Your Beard On eBo...
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The Crucial, Overlooked Benefit of Bible Concordances: Access
As I looked over the new NIV Exhaustive Concordance by John R. Kohlenberger III, I had a surprising thought: throughout my seminary training...
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The Interpretive Journey: Free Video Lecture from Scott Duvall and Danny Hays
How does biblical interpretation work? How does the interpretive journey yield theological principles? How can we work to make our theology ...
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Fasting and Almsgiving [Awakening Faith]
Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have trea...
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Extracurricular Activities 3.21.15 — Angels and Atonement, Romans 1, and Primary Sources
Ben Witherington Asks, "Were Luke and Matthew on the Same Ancestry Page?"
One of the more controversial aspects of the Gospels is the two ge...
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3 Shifts Evangelicals Should Make with the Religious Other— An Excerpt from "There Rock Is Not Like Our Rock"
Daniel Strange's new book "Their Rock Is Not Like Our Rock" fills a crucial gap in the evangelical evaluation of the role of other religions...
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[Common Places] New Voices for Theology: Jonathan Linebaugh’s God, Grace, and Righteousness in Wisdom of Solomon and Paul’s Letter to the Romans
Good theology has a shape, a structure: a way of connecting its various themes and motifs via one or more anchor points that fix the framewo...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields — No “Yes,” But Two Nos: Zechariah 1:4
The last few posts have been a little heavy. In this post, I would like to focus on a lighter matter, which I hope you find interesting and ...
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Dallas Willard on the Bible, the University, and the Source of Knowledge — An Excerpt from "The Bible and the University"
Over the years, there has been something of an identity crisis in the disciplines of biblical studies and theology. Where universities once...
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Sanders, Childs, Bakhtin and the Canonical Approach to Biblical Interpretation
The controversial status of the so-called canonical approach to biblical interpretation is almost as old as the Christian faith itself: Iren...
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Mark, the Neglected Gospel (From Mark Strauss' Commentary on ZECNT: Mark)
The following is adapted from Mark Strauss' Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament: Mark.
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Though the most dramatic and f...
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The Flexible Dative (Jude 1) — Mondays with Mounce 255
The NIV footnote to Jude 1 alerted me to a great example of the challenges of the dative case.
The second part of the salutation reads, “To ...
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Give Before Measuring [Awakening Faith]
Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many? (John 6:9)
If the faithful find some...
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Extracurricular Activities 3.14.15 — Codex Alexandrinus, Moral Beauty, and Church Priviledge
Larry Hurtado on A Newly-Published Study of Codex Alexandrinus
Codex Alexandrinus is a fifth-century “pandect,” that is, the Greek Old Testa...
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The Spiritual Danger of Distraction — An Excerpt from "The Next Story" by Tim Challies
Our age is the Instant, Always-Connected Age. Yet many of us feel more disconnected than ever, wondering if the digital revolution is reall...
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How Do You Share the Gospel with Catholics?— An Excerpt from "Talking with Catholics About the Gospel"
Chris Castaldo is often asked whether Catholics “are going to heaven.” He typically responds that only God knows anyone’s soul, before sayi...
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