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FeaturedReview: Logos Pro Subscription
I have used Logos for the past ten years, and I love it. I have numerous resources, monographs, and commentaries in my library, and I appreciate the Bible search (which I use very often), work flows, sermon builder, workflows, and more. When I began using Logos, I purchased Logos 7. I was able to review… Read more
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FeaturedBook Review: Paul and the Resurrection of Israel (Jason Staples)
This is the book. What is the mystery of Romans 9–11? Why are these chapters so difficult to understand, yet why are they so critical? Was Paul merely inconsistent in his argument? The gospel has gone to gentiles, no wait the Jews are still important? Staples argues against all of these and says that Paul… Read more
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FeaturedThe Meaning of “Lamb of God” in John 1
Continuing my series on articles from the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, 2nd edition, today we will look at an article by John Dennis—London School of Theology—on what John the Baptist meant when he called Jesus “The lamb of God” who takes away the sin of the world. Lamb of God John the Baptist… Read more
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FeaturedPaul’s “Longest” Sentence (Eph 1:3-14)
[Jump down to the bottom to see the sentence separations.] Ephesians 1.3-14 has a long history of being “that long sentence” Paul wrote. But is it really as long as we think it is? How did Tychicus (Eph 6.21-22) read the letter aloud to the Ephesian church? Did Paul run too many races that all his… Read more
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FeaturedYahweh Divides the Nations
Amazon Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Last time we started to look at what Heiser, in his book The Unseen Realm, calls the Deuteronomy 32 Worldview. What we see in Genesis 11 about the tower of Babel has to do with more than dispersing the people. They were “apportioned as… Read more
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FeaturedWas Samson a Good Judge?
For all of my church-going life, Samson’s had a pretty bad wrap. He had some positives: he was a judge of Israel, a lion killer who had multiple Holy Spirit fillings, and a Philistine killer. And then there were the negatives: he followed his appetite (e.g., food, women, etc), disregarded God’s law (again, food, women, etc), and fell for Delilah’s… Read more
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FeaturedOld Testament Prophecies in Matthew’s Gospel
Perhaps you’ve seen a table like this before, but in Kostenberger, Kellum, and Quarles’ NT Introduction The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown, they provide a table of Jesus’ Fulfillment of OT Prophecy in Matthew’s Gospel. I thought I would include it here because, upon looking at it, there are plenty more fulfillments than I… Read more
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Book Review: Jesus and Divine Christology (Brant Pitre)
In Jesus and Divine Christology, Brant Pitre argues that Jesus not only understood he was divine, but that he made that belief known. The question then naturally follow: Where does Jesus say, “I am God”? And why have so many scholars missed it? According to Pitre, the quest for the historical Jesus was “often explicitly… Read more
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Book Review: The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism (Jason Staples)
My favorite book of 2024 was Jason Staples’ Paul and the Resurrection of Israel. Just a few years before, he published the prequel, The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity, which lays the groundwork for his overall argument in a much more detailed way. Jason… Read more
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