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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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I can do all things — (Monday with Mounce 6)
Passage: Philippians 4:13
Keyword: antecedent, adjectives
One of the joys of knowing Greek is to be able to follow all the internal links th...
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Who is God’s Temple? (Monday with Mounce 5)
Key Passage: 1 Cor 3:16-17
It is always interesting to compare languages. There are some things so basic to one language that it feels stran...
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Monday with Mounce 4: Semicolons and Translation by Bill Mounce
Passage: Romans 9:4
In a world of dwindling sentence length and complex sentence structures, the semi-colon has fallen on hard times. It is...
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Word Study: Koinonia 3
This past weekend I watched portions of the Saddleback Civil Forum, where Rick Warren interviewed the two presidential candidates. The...
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Monday with Mounce 3: Punctuation (dashes) By Bill Mounce
Verse: Romans 3:25
I don’t think I have ever been in a Greek class — either as a student or a teacher — in which punctuation was discussed a...
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Word Study: Koinonia 2
"There is nothing like the local church when the church is being the church." - Bill Hybels
Last week I attended the Willow ...
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Monday with Mounce 2: Prepositions and Christology by William D. Mounce
Passage: 1 Timothy 1:2
Key terms: Prepositions, Christology, deity
“Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord” (...
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Monday with Mounce 1
Passage: Romans 1:5
Key terms: Genitive
Paul begins his letter to the church at Rome by saying that through Jesus Christ “we have received...
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