Certainly one of the dominant images and passages in the Bible when it comes to the issue of slavery is the storyline in Exodus about the enslaving of the Hebrews, and then their liberation through the efforts of Moses and others. And note that Moses was a reluctant liberator. It was God Almighty who sent Moses back to Egypt with the command to free his chosen people, and Moses was ordered, yes ordered, to confront Pharaoh (probably Ramses II) and... Read more
Over the course of some 40 years of teaching the Bible, I have become increasingly weary of the misreading of the slave passages in both the OT and the NT. This frustration was only exacerbated when the Museum of the Bible had a special exhibit a couple of years ago of ‘the Slaves Bible’, a Bible produced by slaveholders in the U.K. for their colonies where slavery was the very means by which rice and cotton plantations (and other sorts... Read more
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Perhaps you’ll remember the old pizza commercial— what do you want on your Tombstone? Well the ancients who had any resources at all wanted to honor their dead, not least because they believed their spirits or genii were still out there in the afterlife. The more elite persons or wealthy freedmen spared no expense in marble sarcophagi with all kinds of images on them. For instance, if you were a famous gladiator you might show what your trade was on... Read more
It is indeed very surprising that considering what a major tourist attraction Ephesus is, with cruise boat loads of people showing up again and again, that there is not a major archaeological museum on or near the site. There is a small one, but it is so small they’ve had to leave many of the artifacts outside, or in the courtyard. Fortunately now there is the new Izmir Museum to pick up some of the slack. Below you will see... Read more
‘IN CHRIST’—PAUL’S PREFERRED LANGUAGE FOR CHRISTIANS AND THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY The phrase. ‘in Christ’ or ‘in Him’ (ἐν αὐτῷ) used interchangeably occurs some 39 time in the NT mostly in Paul’s letters, 11 examples of which are found in the opening 202 word sentence in Ephesians 1. Paul does not use the language we find in Acts, namely the term Χριστιανούς– which means a partisan of Christ, or belonging to Christ, but we simply translate the term as ‘Christians’. ... Read more
This is in some ways, an epic of epic proportions. It is frankly too long, but it raises such an important question, namely whether there is any justification for using weapons of mass destruction that do not discriminate between combatants and innocent citizens, even in a lesser of two evils situation, that one must be content to sit and watch this painful long drama a bit at a time. I will talk about the film below, but first I would... Read more
Lynn Cohick, The Letter to the Ephesians, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2020), 520 pages. So I decided to do something I’ve never done before in the last 50 years of studying the Greek New Testament. I read right through a major commentary skipping nothing. It turned out to be very worthwhile. In fact, it was rather like writing such a commentary, which I have done on Ephesians (see my The Letters to Philemon, Colossians, and Ephesians, 2007). Lynn Cohick’s commentary... Read more
So there is a long walk up a hill, and then a further walk up to the top of the hill where the monastery was. So, first the cave….. To give you some perspective, here’s the view from below up to the monastery. This is a steep hill. So here is the monastery itself, which is worth a visit, skip the trinket shop, where amazingly, they still sell postcards which are antiques now. This is a beautiful well maintained monastery.... Read more
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