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Jim West's Endorsement of Lawrence Schiffman
It’s nice to see Jim West endorsing Lawrence Schiffman, his exact words being “He’s awesome.” I have used two of Schiffman’s audio courses before from the Modern Scholar Series, The Hebrew Bible and The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Truth Behind the Mystique. However, I had heard about issues concerning Schiffman (a charge of plagiarism, or…
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Niditch – Ban as Sacrifice versus the Ban as God's Justice
It is not easy for humans to kill others. To participate in mass killing in war is destructive of individual psyches and of the larger community’s mental health. The ban in either trajectory is a means of making killing in war acceptable. How does the ban as sacrifice and the ban as God’s justice differ…
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Resources on Matthew's Geneaology (Mat. 1)
Today’s New Testament reading is the geneaology of Jesus in Matthew. Thankfully, I do not need to write much about this as I fear the New Testament scholars might have a field day with me. (In seminary, I learned something about possible gematria in the passage, something about the theories of why these women are…