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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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A Skeptic’s Guide to the Paradox of Humanity — Excerpt from “A Doubter’s Guide to the Bible” by John Dickson
Human nature is a bundle of contradictions.
In the words of Scot McKnight, we are both brilliant and bad: we give our time to the local PTA...
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[Common Places] New Voices for Theology: Jeremy R. Treat’s "The Crucified King"
“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.”
—William B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”
Yeats probably did not have the academy and church in...
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Can You Serve Jesus and Still Enjoy Your Life?
I should say at the outset that Michael Wittmer is my hero.
Well, maybe I shouldn’t go that far—he is a friend; he was also my academic ment...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields — Words and Emotion: Isaiah 6:5 (Part 2)
In the last post, we began looking at the question of the emotion implied in the word נִדְמֵיתִי (nidmêtî), translated “I am undone” (KJV, A...
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Flash Sale: Wayne Grudem eBooks 80% Off, Today Only
Four of Wayne Grudem’s eBooks from Zondervan are on sale today, and only today (February 2, 2015), at very steep discounts.
If you haven’t a...
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Can “Or” Mean “And”? (1 Thess 2:19) — Mondays with Mounce 250
Paul tells the young Thessalonian church, “For what is our hope or (ἤ) joy or (ἤ) crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is ...
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Be Subject to a Mentor [Awakening Faith]
Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight th...
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Extracurricular Activities 1.31.15 — Mark Mummy Redux, Post-Seculars, and Missions Trips
Justin Taylor Shares Biblical Reasons to Doubt Creation Days Were 24-Hours
R. C. Sproul, who drafted the original Chicago Statement of Bibli...
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A Skeptic's Guide to Life's Ultimate Questions — Excerpt from "A Doubter's Guide to the Bible" by John Dickson
John Dickson’s new book A Doubter’s Guide to the Bible is an important one because of what he ultimately offers skeptics of the Bible: answ...
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Doug Moo's Insights into the Nature and Philosophy of Bible Translation
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"We still don't get ...
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A Doubter's Guide to the Creation Story
John Dickson is on a mission to help skeptics engage and understand the most popular book of all time, the Bible. A Doubter’s Guide to the B...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields — Words and Emotion: Isaiah 6:5 (Part 1)
A reader posed a question to me about the emotion conveyed in Isa 6:5 by the word נִדְמֵיתִי (nidmêtî). He had grown up with the KJV “I am u...
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Paragraphs (Col 2:9 and 4:10) — Mondays with Mounce 249
Lately I have been fascinated by the more subtle methods of translation. One of the problems of first year Greek training is that we have to...
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What Is Trinitarian Theology For? (Excerpt from "Advancing Trinitarian Theology")
What is trinitarian theology for? How does it function in systematic theology?
Read below as Fred Sanders explores the question by tracing ...
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Extracurricular Activities 1.24.15 —The Afterlife, the Mark Mummy Mask, What Would Kuyper Do?
Mike Wittmer Gives 4 Reasons to Stop Obsessing About Heaven
Alex Malarkey, who co-authored The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven, publicly conf...
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A Skeptic's Guide to History's Most Popular Book — An Excerpt from "A Doubter's Guide to the Bible"
Thousands of years later, people are still fascinated and intrigued by the Bible.
And skeptical. The recent Newsweek Christmas cover story ...
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