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Going Beyond the Bible Biblically 2
Here are our big questions in this series of posts: How do we move beyond the Bible? Should we? Better yet: Since we have to, how do we move beyond the Bible into our world but do this biblically? This...
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Book Comments: Zondervan’s Encyclopedia Revised
Every Bible reader, especially every teacher and pastor, needs a solid Bible encyclopedia that does its best to tell us what we need to know about history and theology and archaeology as well as sketch...
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The Way Forward? (RJS)
Darrel Falk posted an excellent column on Science and the Sacred yesterday. In this post he comments on three conversations with highly educated people who hold a young earth view of creation. The...
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New Perspective and a Metaphor for Sin
Sin has a history, and the history of the use of words for sin sheds light on the current debate about the new perspective on Paul. Gary Anderson, in his superbly written Sin: A HistoryRead the full...
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Currents in Biblical Research: Special 30% Discount
Along with Alan Hauser (Appalachian State University) and Jonathan Klawans (Boston University), I am co-editor of the journal Currents in Biblical Research. This journal can be read to keep up with...
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Peoples Behind the New Testament
No passage in the New Testament ever describes the groups it assumes everyone knows. Yet, we beg for those descriptions and so scholars over the years have sketched and re-sketched, and then discarded...
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Ancient-Future Interpretation 1
Reading the Bible is both easier than ever before, because of all the resources available, and more complex, because of all the resources available. One could argue that the oldest method of Bible...
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Ancient-Future Interpretation 2
J. Todd Billings, in The Word of God for the People of God: An Entryway to the Theological Interpretation...Read the full post here »
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Ancient-Future Interpretation 3
J. Todd Billings, in The Word of God for the People of God: An Entryway to the Theological Interpretation...Read the full post here »
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Bible Atlas
I will never forget the first time I read the Old Testament's historical books (Genesis -- 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah) cover to cover with a Bible atlas. I was in college and I learned so much. The...
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