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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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What Has the Nile To Do With the Withywindle? Reading Isaiah Attentively
Guest post by Emily Varner of AcademicPS.com.
When my devotional Bible reading landed me in the book of Isaiah, I decided to take the oppor...
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John Walton - Asking the Right Questions of Job
In the clip below John Walton discusses some key questions we should be asking when we read the book of Job.
For more of Walton's ...
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Wednesday Giveaway - Jesus, the Middle Eastern Storyteller
Jesus often spoke in parables, telling stories to share his message of the Kingdom.
Unfortunately, the meaning of these stories is often ...
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Wednesday Giveaway - Old Testament Today
The Old Testament is fascinating, but how can we understand what the significance is of these ancient texts today, when we are separated by...
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Wednesday Giveaway - The Essential Companion to Life in Bible Times
When we open the pages of the Bible we are stepping into a world far removed from our own. While we bring our own contextual biases to the ...
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Wednesday Giveaway - NIVAC Romans
Few books of the Bible have become so central to Christian thought and practice as Romans. From Augustine, to Luther, to Barth, many of the...
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How Would a Fisherman Respond to Someone Yelling, “Children?” - John 21:5 (Monday with Mounce 104)
My pastor preached his last of an 80 part sermon series on John today. (Now I don’t feel so bad about preaching for 2 1/2 years on the...
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Is the Sword the Spirit? - Eph 6:17 (Monday with Mounce 103)
In Eph 6:14-17 we have a series of genitives. We are to take up:
- the breastplate of righteousness (τὸν θώρακα τῆς δικαιοσύνης),
- the shi...
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Was Jesus’ Burial Cloth Folded or Rolled? - John 20:7 (Monday with Mounce 101)
Having heard the the resurrection story today at church, I reminded of the translation issues in this verse. Peter ran into the tomb and sa...
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Can You Put a Ring on Your Hand? (Monday with Mounce 99)
At the end of the parable of the Prodigal Son, the father signals his acceptance of his younger son with the bestowal of a ring, which is p...
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Wednesday Giveaway - Zondervan Atlas of the Bible
The Biblical stories are deeply contextualized, and so understanding them thousands of years later requires us to study ancient times and pl...
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Wednesday Giveaway - Encounters with Jesus
“What can you do, or think, or believe to make yourself 'untouchable' to Jesus? The answer, according to Gary M. Burge, is nothing....
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The Ehrman Project - Explaining not Attacking
I have to admit when I first heard about a project to address the works of Bart Ehrman I was a bit wary. There are more than enough attack b...
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Ephesians 1:5 - Adopted into the People of God
“he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will” Ephesians 1:5
This verse stood o...
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The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible: It's In There (Magi Edition)
That the Magi most likely didn’t arrive until long after the manger scene is old news to most of us, as is the fact that it is never said t...
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Was there really no room at the Inn?
We are accustom to Christmas plays and TV specials which feature Joseph and Mary being told “there is no room at the inn” by a burly looki...
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