Walter Moberly’s The God of the Old Testament— Part Three

Last updated on: January 7, 2021 at 4:37 pm By Ben Witherington

Q. One thing I really always appreciate about your work, besides the obvious depth of attention to the theological pith of various texts, is your modeling attending to the whole hermeneutical arc from original context to later use of a text or an idea in the NT to contemporary discussions of relevance. Honestly, there aren’t that many scholars out there who do this, and I’m wondering why, even when many of them are practicing Jews or Christians? Why is this?... Read more

The Faith of the Players in the Super Bowl—- Four Brief Testamonies

Last updated on: February 7, 2021 at 8:04 am By Ben Witherington

https://hillfaith.blog/2021/02/07/four-men-of-faith-to-watch-in-the-super-bowl-tonight/ Read more

Walter Moberly’s The God of the Old Testament– Part Two

Last updated on: January 7, 2021 at 4:35 pm By Ben Witherington

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

A Lost Beatles Song—- Now and Then

Last updated on: February 6, 2021 at 10:14 pm By Ben Witherington

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPE795oaw6Y&list=RDtPE795oaw6Y&start_radio=1 I Sure do miss these guys. BW3 Read more

Walter Moberly’s The God of the Old Testament– Part One

Last updated on: January 7, 2021 at 4:31 pm By Ben Witherington

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

Baby Sings at Church!

Last updated on: January 7, 2021 at 4:11 pm By Ben Witherington

Podcast on Jesus and Money

Last updated on: December 29, 2020 at 8:49 pm By Ben Witherington

What Can We Learn From Jesus About Money with Dr. Ben Witherington III Read more

Parking Protests– Words to the Wise Guys

Last updated on: December 23, 2020 at 1:56 pm By Ben Witherington

Parking Protests— Words to the Wise

Last updated on: December 23, 2020 at 10:12 pm By Ben Witherington

Troubled Blood— Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling)

Last updated on: December 23, 2020 at 1:14 pm By Ben Witherington

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

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