Within this introduction, he lays out some key theoretical assumptions: 1) the notion of individual authorship is anachronistic in the historical context of the Hebrew Bible and its formative years in the first millennium BCE (p. 1) and 2) notions of individual authorship “assume the convenience...
particularly around Elijah the prophet. Suffice to say that when there is a physical description of some kind, it is consistent with what we’ve seen so far – humanoid, but often impressive, powerful, or even terrifying (in action, if not appearance). Here are a few relevant quotes from ...
Seems they have to find some more human description of Jesus from a four year old higher authority. You have to be a really brave man to dare to tell one of those women that this kid really did not go to heaven. You take your life in your hands. There were also several othe...
When it is stated that this department of Biblical exegesis is interspersed with homiletics, the beautiful maxims and ethical sayings of illustrious men, attractive mystical expositions about angels and demons, paradise and hell, Messiah and the Prince of Darkness; poetical allegories, symbolical ...
You see in verse 24 the first word "therefore," this means we're now going to see a description that connects to what has been said. If you go back to verse 18, "The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men," and we could stop at ...
We can debate whether we are “in the last days”, but the description in 2 Timothy 3 appears very close to what is currently taking place….. . 2 Timothy 3 3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, ...
20Matthew R. Crawfordenumerated chunks of text are sorted into ten highlyabstract categorieswhich are entirely unrelated to theoriginal contexts from which they come. The artificialityof this process is thrown into sharper relief if we contrastit with another system of sorting that might havegathered...
of physicians failed, those afflicted turned to alternative medicines or to renowned healers of their day. A basic pattern common to the healing stories at the Ascelpius temple in Greece, in the gospels, and in other ancient sources is as follows: (1) a description of the illness and the...