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June 2016

June 30, 2016
BEN: Early on in your book, you have some important things to say about how...
June 29, 2016
BEN: One of the topics broached at length in this study is the issue of...
June 28, 2016
BEN: Bruce you’ve now written two books The Cross before Constantine (Fortress, 2015) and The...
June 27, 2016
According to the Bible, two of the rivers that flowed from or by Eden were...
June 26, 2016
The climb up Mt. Nimrud is breath-taking, quite literally, and for some reason it was...
June 25, 2016
It is hard for me to stress enough how beautiful a country Turkey is. And...
June 24, 2016
The phrase 'built to last' gets thrown around a lot in our time, but frankly...
June 23, 2016
Without question, the mosaic depiction most commented on by scholars, and rightly so is the...
June 22, 2016
I flew directly from Istanbul to Gaziantep to meet my friend Meltem Chiftchi (my usual...
June 21, 2016
Yep, those are faux camels headed down the traffic median in Gaziantep, just outside the...
June 20, 2016
For better or worse, it was the practice of Muslim conquerors to: 1) take over...
June 19, 2016
Why is this man staring at you? Well, because he is offering you the opportunity...
June 18, 2016
According to church historical evidence, there were three 'first' churches of Byzantine Christianity-- one named...
June 17, 2016
Sometimes archaeology is just a matter of pure luck. Take for instance the case of...
June 16, 2016
There is a one to 25 scale replica park in Istanbul called the Miniaturk Park,...
June 15, 2016
The word Chora in Greek means 'country' and once upon a time the Chora Church...
June 14, 2016
June 13, 2016
Having already read the prequel to Rogue Lawyer (352 pages released last October), namely the...
June 12, 2016
Southern Discomfort Ben Witherington III Southern Discomfort chronicles the trials and tribulation of Masey Bumgarner,...
June 11, 2016
One of the sad parts of teaching graduate students, is though many are bright, only...
June 10, 2016
Of the now some five Lyle Mays solo lps, the first two which emerged in...
June 09, 2016
Q12.BEN: It seems obvious enough that the Pastorals do call leaders and others to both...
June 08, 2016
Here's part of an interesting article from the website sciencealert.com with a remarkable testimony about...
June 07, 2016
(picture courtesy of our Louisville Courier Journal). Muhammed Ali, born Cassius Clay in Louisville...
June 07, 2016
Here's a fine post by my friend Timothy George. There lived in the town of...
June 06, 2016
Thanks to the Faithlife/Logos folks for the use of this cartoon. BW3
June 05, 2016
It was the Who who said 'Hope I die before I get old'. Abandon hope...
June 04, 2016
Today is the day Ann and I were married in S. Hamilton, Mass. in 1977....
June 03, 2016
June 02, 2016
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