Q. When I read Dale Martin’s Biblical Truths volume the thing that bothered me the most about it was his rather cavalier theory of meaning. He wanted to argue that texts don’t have meanings, people do, and anyway meaning is largely either in the eye of the beholder or in the interaction between the reader and the text, it does not lie in the text itself. This gave him permission to read all kinds of things into the text (for... Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPE795oaw6Y&list=RDtPE795oaw6Y&start_radio=1 I Sure do miss these guys. BW3 Read more
All the way back to the second century when Marcion suggested that the God of the OT was someone different from the God of the NT, there has always been the question for Christians as to what to make of the one called Yahweh. Was he indeed the God of wrath compared to gentle Jesus meek and mild, the God of grace and forgiveness? We are indeed very fortunate to have thoughtful and careful theologians of the OT to make... Read more
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It’s longer than War and Peace (600 some pages). It’s longer than Crime and Punishment (700 some pages). I should mention Anna Karenina as well since there is an allusion to that novel on the last page of this one. In fact, its the longest novel I’ve ever seen (I don’t count multi-volume novels like the Lord of the Rings). It’s easily the longest novel I’ve ever read weighing in at 944 pages (yikes!). You have to be a bookaholic... Read more
Having recently celebrated MLK Day, I was struck recently by some of the things the Chief Founder of the Protestant Reformation, and MLK’s name sake, Martin Luther had to say about Christians practicing sedition against a duly authorized government. In 1522, Luther wrote a tract entitled ‘A Sincere Admonition by Martin Luther to All Christians to Guard Against Insurrection and Rebellion. Basically, Luther cites Romans 13.1-7, and says that God’s word through the Apostle to the Gentiles... Read more
I was on the last leg of my last lecture tour of Australia in the summer of 2019, flying cross country from Perth to Sydney to give some lectures at MacQuarrie University in the ancient history department. My friend Prof. Alanna Nobbs, just retired from MacQuarrie had informed me that I would be collected at the Sydney airport by ‘Edwin’. Now Edwin at the time was over 90 years of age. In fact, he was born in 1928, and is... Read more
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