2016
N. T. Wright introduces a thesis in his The Climax of the Covenant that,
“what he [Paul] says about Jesus and about the Law reflects his belief that the covenant purposes of Israel’s God had reached their climatic …
One of the crooked foundations that lies at the base of many misleading and unhelpful “Christian” ideas is a faulty assumption about what the Bible is and what it is for. Some of the more extreme results stemming from such …
A new book by an ex-Christadelphian, Nicholas P. Lunn, is on the ending of the Gospel of Mark (Mk 16:9-20). Dr. Lunn is a translation consultant with Wycliffe and a Baptist. The paperback edition is available on Amazon and also …
Isa 40:7[1] and 13 do not present the Spirit of the Lord as an agent, contrary to some translations of ruach. Isa 40:7 asserts that “the wind of the Lord blows upon it”, referring to grass and flowers …
There was a very public divorce at the time of Jesus and John the Baptist. Herod Antipas was married to a Nabataean princess and they had lived together ‘a great while’ (Josephus Antiquities 18.109), some think for close to thirty …
There were only four of us: Ian [now Brother Ian] Cockcroft, of Walkden, Manchester [now of King’s Heath]; Jean King of Birkenhead [now Sister Jean …
We are looking at a block of parables starting at Matt 13:44. Although it is tempting to follow the narrator and start the block at Matt 13.36 where the narrator describes the movement of Jesus and the disciples into the …
For a long time, it has seemed to me that 1 Cor 8:6 is the most explicit statement of biblical unitarianism that one can find in the NT. It seemed like the obvious choice for the title page of …
Philippians 2:5-11 is a well-known passage for ‘establishing’ the pre-existence and/or the deity of Christ. It has been the subject of extensive commentary by Christian scholars and for non-Trinitarians it has been viewed as a ‘problem passage’.[1] …
In this series so far we have been looking at ad hominem arguments. These are arguments against the person – you. In an argument, your opponent might appeal to authority. They may cite a scientific authority, a scholar or …
This article will examine the language and composition history of Qoheleth. The acceptable face of German scholarship to conservatively minded Bible students in the Victorian Era, Franz Delitzsch, once stated,
“If Koheleth was written in Solomon’s day, a history …
A characteristic of scholarship is that it is mostly irrelevant to ordinary life. A journal like this one is just a small endeavour in the run of things. It really just speaks to the intellectual dimension of the Christian life. …