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What Do You Get When You Cross the Talmud with a Spreadsheet?
Some interesting numbers on the frequency of biblical citations in the Talmud, which Michael Satlow is presently at a loss to adequately explain. As I slowly gain more familiarity with the many extraordinary but poorly documented powers of Excel, I’ve … Continue reading
Bovell: The Culture of Biblical Inerrantism
Carlos Bovell is guest-posting at Peter Enns’s blog. According to Enns, Bovell is becoming a leading critic of the evangelical notion of biblical inerrancy, but unlike other such critiques, his is not the rant of an outsider, but the careful, … Continue reading
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March Biblical Studies Carnival
It may be abnormal. It may be interesting. Perhaps it is even both. At any event, the march Biblical Studies Carnival is now posted at Duane Smith’s Abnormal Interests blog. Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookTweet about itSubscribe … Continue reading
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Adam: Genesis and Paul
There has been a lot of blog chatter lately about the “historical Adam” and whether or not he actually existed. I suspect the real issue for some Christians is not so much what to do with the Adam we find … Continue reading
Crash Course on the Septuagint
Did you know that the New Testament writers almost always quoted the Septuagint (LXX), and early Greek translation of the Old Testament, rather than the Hebrew Bible itself? You would if you read Michael S. Heiser’s nice, brief introductory article … Continue reading
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Transfiguration Sunday Sermon: “Managing Mystery (to within an Inch of Its Life)”
2 Kings 2:1-12; Mark 9:2-9 I think the closest I’ve ever been to a “mountaintop experience” was on a riverboat. I had just arrived in Louisville, Kentucky to start attending seminary. Crescent Hill Baptist Church always rented the Belle of … Continue reading
Scot McKnight Interview
Ed Stetzer interviews Scot McKnight about his recent book, The King Jesus Gospel. A key thought for me comes near the end: I also contend that a gospel that is first Christology and then soteriology is more biblical and differs … Continue reading
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Another Stab at “The Powers”
Roger Olson has a nice summary contrasting the views of Walter Wink and Greg Boyd on the nature of the demonic. Since these are the two theologians who have most influenced my own thinking on this matter, I read Olson’s … Continue reading
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Reading the Bible like an Anthropologist
Tonight I’ll be concluding my study of Ephesians at the First Baptist Church of Christ. I’ll be talking about the “principalities and powers” and how educated Westerners might make sense of what Ephesians says about unseen forces of evil arrayed … Continue reading
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What Were You Expecting?
Not unrelated to my previous post, Charles Halton has written a nice piece about “Calibrating Expectations for Biblical Studies.” We get along better in reading the Bible if we have realistic expectations about what we expect to find there in … Continue reading
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