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June 2023

June 30, 2023
Q.   Much has been made of late about Mark being an ancient biography, especially by...
June 29, 2023
Q.  Your mentor was Moody Smith at Duke. He mainly focused on the Gospel of...
June 28, 2023
The measure of the importance of an ancient prophetic site like Klaros can be seen...
June 27, 2023
A Via sacra or sacred road went right past this site, and on to Ephesos...
June 26, 2023
Seeing the lay of the land helps to explain the eventual demise of these temples....
June 25, 2023
The story of the excavations at Claros is interesting, and here is a sign explaining...
June 24, 2023
One of the unique features of this site is that it has two adytons, the...
June 23, 2023
  A There were many temples of Apollo, as the chart above shows, and for...
June 22, 2023
Clifton Black, Mark’s Gospel. History, Theology, Interpretation, (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 2023), pp. 556, $46.00 hardcopy....
June 21, 2023
Q. The catena of quotations in Rom. 15 includes the exhortation at the very outset...
June 20, 2023
Q. You argue that Christ as the telos of the Law in 10.4 means that...
June 19, 2023
Q. On p. 126 you suggest that what dikaiosune theou means, at least primarily, is...
June 18, 2023
Q. Here are some thoughts about some of the major building blocks of your argument...
June 17, 2023
Q. P.109ff. I found the argument that what is being opposed is only adult circumcision...
June 16, 2023
Q. I think part of the problem I have with the Paul within Judaism folks...
June 15, 2023
O.K. I'm a bit late to the party. The movie came out while I...
June 15, 2023
Q. So far as I can see, Gentiles did not go around calling themselves Jews,...
June 14, 2023
Q. Let’s talk about pistis, a word which certainly can be translated ‘trust’ but it...
June 13, 2023
Q. I was a bit surprised by your take on Rom. 7.7-25. Speech in character,...
June 12, 2023
Q. I really find the argument of Neil Elliott as not compelling, trying to find...
June 11, 2023
Q. In your exposition about Rom. 1.18-32 I was surprised that while you rightly emphasized...
June 10, 2023
Q. You are right that not infrequently Paul uses the rhetorical device of diatribe and...
June 08, 2023
Not infrequently I've been asked, how (and why) I have written so many books.  I...
June 07, 2023
 
June 06, 2023
There are many problems that ultimately can be traced back to the human heart and...
June 05, 2023
O.K., I admit it, I love sports.  Not surprisingly, having been raised on Carolina basketball,...
June 04, 2023
There have always been problems with word dictionaries.  Why?  Because words don't have meanings in...
June 03, 2023
On first glance, this book looks like an antique.  It has a cover like 19th...
June 02, 2023
Paul was a skilled rhetorician.  This is evident throughout his letters, but especially in the...
June 01, 2023
  TEN THINGS CHRISTIANS SHOULD NEVER ACCEPT   The premise of this post is that...
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