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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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Gratitude and Generosity (II) [Awakening Faith]
If I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing, or the needy without garments . . . then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let it be ...
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Extracurricular Activities 11.22.15 —Evangelistic Paralysis, Young Scholars & the Internet, and Sabbath
Scot McKnight Shares The Biggest Mistake in Kingdom Talk
The most common mistake I hear when people are talking about kingdom is comparison ...
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What Was the City and Church of Corinth Like? — An Excerpt from Ralph Martin's "2 Corinthians (WBC)"
One of the disadvantages we have as 21st century Christians is how removed we are from the original context of Scripture. This disadvantage...
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Evangelicals and Bible Translations 50 Years After the NIV
Next year the Committee on Bible Translation, Zondervan, and Biblica are celebrating the 50th year anniversary of the commissioning of the N...
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[Common Places] The Promise and Prospects of Retrieval: Recent Developments in Dogmatics
When I was a graduate student in Cambridge in the late 1970s, dogmatics was a minority discipline, and the word itself almost never mentione...
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My Advice to Students — Paul Molnar Says "Do What it Takes to Get the Job Done"
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Nothing in life is g...
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Limited-Time Sale: Every NIVAC eBook Just $4.99
Yes, you read that right: Every single NIV Application Commentary eBook is just $4.99 apiece — which makes this the perfect time to add to o...
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Knowing Key Events in Paul's Life is Crucial to Understanding & Exegeting 2 Corinthians Well
There are some who insist Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians isn’t a source of early Church history, believing it to be a “locally dire...
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When Is "Them" Confusing? (Luke 9:26) — Mondays with Mounce 240
There is no question that "they" is becoming the pronoun of choice to refer back to either a singular or plural antecedent. Like it or not, ...
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Gratitude and Generosity (I) [Awakening Faith]
Every good and perfect gift is from above. (James 1:17)
Recognize to whom you owe the fact that you exist, that you breathe, that you unders...
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Extracurricular Activities 11.15.14 — Hebrews vs. Hellenists, Suicide and the Bible, & Sexual Orientation
Larry Hurtado Explores the Dubious Divide between "Hebrews" and "Hellenists"
It is a curiously widespread assumption that there was some maj...
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Mark’s Gospel is Jesus's Story on Steroids! — An Excerpt from Mark Strauss's "Mark (ZECNT)" Commentary
In recent decades there has been a number of new approaches to the gospel, one of which is so-called narrative criticism. Considering how s...
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Your Guide to Translating Clausal Relationships in the New Testament — An Excerpt from "Interpretive Lexicon of New Testament Greek"
Sometimes a resource comes along you didn't even know you needed until it does.
That seems to be the case with the new An Interpretive Lexi...
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What’s the Difference Between Classical and Social, Relational Trinitarianism?
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In recent decades th...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields | Outlining the David and Goliath Story: Help from the LXX
Episodes and Context
Modern books have chapters placed at logical places. This helps readers to break up long stories into manageable chunks...
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Narrative Criticism and Mark: Approaching the Gospel as Story
I am a novelist as well as a theologian. (In fact, after writing this I’m off to fulfill today’s word count goal for NaNoWriMo, National Nov...
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