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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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Work, Play, and Worship – An Excerpt from A Doubter’s Guide to the Ten Commandments
"If you’re someone who enjoys a weekend, you owe it to Moses" says John Dickson in A Doubter's Guide to the Ten Commandments. In today's exc...
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Can you have a “twice Sabbath” (Luke 18:12)? - Mondays with Mounce 271
This phrase in Luke gives us a great example of how words have bundles of meanings, and you have to move beyond the one or two word glosses ...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields — Keeping Sabbath Holy: Purpose or Means (Exod 20:8; Deut 5:12)?
In this post we will compare NASB and NIV as we did in the last, but this time it will cover the phrase modifying the command to remember (...
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Extracurricular Activities 4.11.15 — Economic Discrimination, Conversion, & Jesus' Sabbath Rest
Jordan Ballor on the Logic of Economic Discrimination
Why should big businesses like Apple, Angie’s List, or Salesforce be able to discrimin...
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[Common Places] New Voices for Theology: Taylor Ruiz-Jones’s “From Siesta to Sabbath”
In a world of contemporary systematic theologies so often dominated by approaches committed to retrieval, Taylor Ruiz-Jones steps into the f...
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Did You Know the Sabbath Was Given as a Gift, to Enjoy? — An Excerpt from "Becoming Worldly Saints" by Michael Wittmer
Do you realize the Sabbath is a gift?
On most Sundays it probably doesn’t feel that way: getting ready and off to church is usually far mor...
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