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August 2006

August 03, 2006
In his classic essay on the “Reasonableness of Typology,” GWH Lampe argued that critical scholarship...
August 03, 2006
George Buchanan suggests a connection between Jewish asceticism and the expansion of purity concerns following...
August 02, 2006
On both the cover and the title page, a recent book on Jeremiah typology in...
August 02, 2006
Augustine’s City of God created the Christian West because it enabled believers to think about...
August 02, 2006
In a 1997 article in NTS , Christopher Smith defends the five-discourse structure of Matthew...
August 02, 2006
Oscar JF Seitz has an interesting article in a 1960 issue of JBL . He...
August 02, 2006
George Wesley Buchanan notes that ancient Jewish writings pay comparatively attention to Joshua. But, “For...
August 02, 2006
Paul’s discussion of the future of Israel assumes Jesus’ predictions about the coming destruction of...
August 01, 2006
INTRODUCTION As a church, we believe that before the foundation of the world God ordained...

July 2006

July 31, 2006
In a 1975 article in JBL, one Bruce Dahlberg suggests that the background to Matthew...
July 31, 2006
In his study of Matthew’s five-discourse structure, BW Bacon mentions commentators who connect the miracles...
July 31, 2006
Dale Allison notes that Matthew “stipulates that it be interpreted in the context of other...
July 31, 2006
The Jewish scholar GC Montefiore wrote: “What one would have wished to find in the...
July 31, 2006
Gregory of Nyssa writes in his Life of Moses: “one limit of perfection is the...
July 31, 2006
It’s not a new insight with me, but it came home with particular force recently:...
July 31, 2006
David’s house dies and rises again several times in 1-2 Kings: After Athaliah kills the...
July 30, 2006
In his recent Simply Christian , NT Wright offers this clever retort to skeptical relativism:...
July 30, 2006
According to an AOL report, Greg Boyd has lost 1000 members of his church because...
July 30, 2006
According to an AOL report, Greg Boyd has lost 1000 members of his church because...
July 30, 2006
The Pharisees are the surly elder brother in Jesus’ parable, and surely they expected that...
July 29, 2006
1 John 2:23 says that whoever denies the Son denies the Father as well, and...
July 29, 2006
It’s common among evangelicals to say that the gospel is about God solving the tension...
July 29, 2006
I’ve commented before on the sequence of 1 John 1:7, which moves from walking in...
July 29, 2006
Reviewing several recent books on the Christian Right in the current issue of First Things,...
July 29, 2006
Reviewing several recent books on the Christian Right in the current issue of First Things,...
July 29, 2006
Occasionally, I run into people who have never heard of Ken Myers and his Mars...
July 27, 2006
In a Biblical Horizons lecture, Rich Bledsoe argued that the doctrine of justification by faith...
July 26, 2006
Baptism unites the baptized to the church, which is the bride of Christ. Brides take...
July 26, 2006
Gary Burge points out in his NIV commentary on 1 John that the relative pronoun...
July 26, 2006
It’s common to reconcile James and Paul on justification by saying something like “Paul’s faith...
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