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- Why Did Jesus Tell Mary, "Mine Hour Is Not Yet Come" (John 2:4)?
- Is Dale Carnegie Biblical?; Compromise for God; Pagan Roots; Callimachus; Priests and Allegory; Israelite Welfare System; Lois Wilson
- The Seating Arrangement at the Last Supper
- Bart Ehrman on Luke 3:22 and Anti-Adoptionism
- Isaiah 59:16-17: A Vulnerable God?
- Helel Ben Shachar: Satan
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- Gerstenberger on Post-Exilic Psalms
- Genesis 3:3: Neither Shall Ye Touch the Fruit
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Tag Archives: conservative scholars
Struggles with Daniel 2, Part II
I talked in my post yesterday about the statue in Daniel 2. I said that I identified with liberal scholars who argue that the legs represent Greece and the feet represent Alexander’s successors, the Diadachoi. Conservative scholars tend to argue … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Daily Quiet Time, Daniel, Religion
Tagged Babylon, conservative scholars, Daniel, Medes, Medo-Persia
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Does Boring Mean Historically-Accurate?
I was catching up on my reading of Nick Norelli’s “Bible in a Year” series. On Numbers 7, Nick says the following: “Wouldn’t it have been so much easier to just say, ‘Each of the 12 tribes gave…’ rather than … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Religion
Tagged 12 tribes, ancient literature, conservative scholars, documentary hypothesis, elish, norelli
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