Uncategorized Final Post 4 Aug 2018 I've decided that this will probably be the final post on the blog. I'm tired and, to be honest, there are far more qualified people out in the blogosphere writing…
Abortion… Evangelical Thabiti Anyabwile on Trump, Roe v Wade, and Evangelicalism 3 Aug 201818 Jul 2018 I doubt very many of my readers have ever heard of Thabiti Anyabwile. Anyabwile is an evangelical minister who regularly speaks at conferences like Together for the Gospel. He is…
'The Old Testament' (2014)… Michael D. Coogan: Some Books Went Through Multiple Editions 3 Aug 201814 Jul 2018 Michael D. Coogan, The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, third edition (Oxford University Press, 2014), 10-11. Although some ancient and most modern authors have produced…
Christian Scriptures… Study of Christianity: Aram, Asaph, and Amos (2) 3 Aug 20183 Aug 2018 Yesterday I posted a link to the first of two videos from @StudyofChrist concerning the names Aram, Asaph, and Amos in the Matthean genealogy and the problems they pose. Today…
'The Triumph of Christianity'… Bart Ehrman: Emperor Trajan’s Provisos to Pliny the Younger 2 Aug 201814 Jul 2018 Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World (Simon and Schuster: 2018), 187. [In his letter to Pliny the Younger concerning how to deal with…
Inerrancy… Study of Christianity: Aram, Asaph, and Amos (1) 2 Aug 201816 Jul 2018 Over on his YouTube channel, @StudyofChrist continues in his series interrogating the text of the Matthean genealogy. If you haven't subscribed to his channel, you should do so. In this…
'The New Testament' (2016)… Bart Ehrman: Canonical Questions 2 Aug 201814 Jul 2018 Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, sixth edition (Oxford University Press, 2016), 14. It appears then that our New Testament emerged out of…
Gospels… Robert Guelich on The Gospels as Portraits of Jesus 1 Aug 201814 Jul 2018 Every weekday I do about forty-five minutes of reading in the Greek text of Mark's Gospel. After I finish reading through a pericope there are two main commentaries I go…
Hebrew Scriptures… Michael D. Coogan: The First Stage in Bible Study 1 Aug 201814 Jul 2018 Michael D. Coogan, The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, third edition (Oxford University Press, 2014), 7. A necessary first stage in the study of the…
Biblical Languages… Musings on Mark: ‘Ekballo’ 1 Aug 20181 Aug 2018 Sixteen times in the Gospel of Mark we read the Greek word ekballo, a verb that is a compound of the preposition ek and the verb ballo. Before we look at ekballo we should…
