After The Christadelphian, The Testimony is the oldest magazine still in publication. Edited from the UK and distributed in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States the magazine has a fairly wide readership. Editorial aim is “the study and defense of holy scripture”.
This article is the second of two in a consideration of the date of the Exodus. Typically, only two dates are considered viable: c.1440 BCE (the ‘early date’),[1] and c.1280 BCE (the ‘late date’). Arguments for these dates …
The unique style and content of John’s Gospel has generated a huge body of scholarly comment and opinion. There are innumerable commentaries and articles researching issues of language, authorship, date, and much more besides. Many eminent scholars have been …
TG Q. Why do you write books?
J. As tools for others to use in their own Bible study and preaching. Two other books of mine currently available are ‘Sleeping In The Dust‘, and ‘Rightly Dividing The Word‘.
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The Jewish scriptures are called ‘the Old Testament’ by Christians because they believe that other books are also ‘scripture’—viz., the New Testament. The implicit claim of the Christian church of the second century CE was that there had been …
Adam and Eve were given a clear command that they disobeyed. They had been told that the punishment for disobedience was death. In NT comment on the events in the Garden of Eden we have confirmed that by one …
The previous article concluded that language alone cannot establish the date of a particular book – any linguistic evidence needs to be supported by intertextual and socio-historical evidence. Our hypothesis is that Song belongs to the Hezekiah period and …
The Christadelphians does not set out to supersede Elpis Israel, Christendom Astray, or God’s Way—in fact Brother Tennant modestly expresses the hope that his “lesser volume will prove to be an encouragement to read the others”—but it is a book …
The racy, versatile and prolific pen of Brother Harry Whittaker (thinly masquerading here under the pseudonym of Tychicus, the Apostle Paul’s much-loved companion in the gospel) has produced this stimulating volume of advice and comment on just about every topic, …
This will appeal particularly to the scientifically-minded, even though they may not have received definite scientific training. The mind stands appalled at the thought of the infinite number of adjustments in the movements of the heavenly bodies which would appear …
The Human Genome Project was first conceived in 1985 in the U.S.A. The idea is to build up a map of the genes in human chromosomes so that the functions and locations of all the 100,000 or so genes in …
David down, the well-known Australian archaeologist, in his journal Diggings, reports on a lecture given by Dr Rosalie David (Director of Antiquities at the Manchester Museum) at Macquarie University, Sydney. on 9 August 1990. Dr David is the noted author …
The original documents from which everything that is certain about the life of Jesus Christ is to be learned, are not only brief, but are the best known books in the world. Yet upon them as a foundation there has …
Although some of the early fathers of the Church, such as Origen and Jerome, distinctly refer to the Samaritan Pentateuch, and the Talmud also alludes to it, its existence was questioned for many centuries; some even contended that it …
The big trench outside Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate has aroused local curiosity for many months. The designers of the grand Mamilla Project, engaged in reshaping the Old City’s western approaches, have discovered to their consternation that ancient urban planners had …
An intensely modern question. In almost every department of life women now take their places side by side with men, often with marked success. The “emancipation of women ” has passed through many ugly phases inseparable from the breaking down …
It is very difficult to write justly of the beliefs of others, especially when we have no acquaintance with the persons themselves, and are dependent upon accounts which have come down to us through well-nigh two thousand years.
The Pharisees …
The familiar thesis that Elijah must re-appear before the second coming of Christ rests entirely upon the interpretation of Malachi 4:5 and 6:
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day …
A consultation of available references, such as the modern translation of Moffatt and Weymouth, the Revised Version and Dr. Adam Clarke’s commentary, gave no indication that the authenticity of the passage was ever in doubt.
The custodian at the Edinburgh …
In a recent article in The Schoolmistress, the distinguished Broadcaster, Mr. E. R. Appleton, referring to the crossing of the Jordan by Israel, under the leadership of Joshua, states :—
“It has long been recognised that the stoppage of the …
During the course of a recent address, it was stated quite emphatically that Israel did not go through the Red Sea, but on the contrary, passed through the Bitter Lakes. Dean Stanley, and other learned commentators, taking the opposite view, …
The origin of the Black Races is lost in remote antiquity, and the existence of negroid types of humanity from very early prehistoric times is beyond dispute. There is no evidence whatever that they are descended from Ham, or that …
Evidence on the matter is scanty. As far as the Bible is concerned the reference made to Job in Ezekiel (ch. 14. 14 and 20) and in James 5. 11 suggest that the writers thought …
There is a saying that the easiest exegesis is usually the wrong one. I was reminded of this when reading the ” Reflections” by A.H.T. in the November Testimony.
The remarkable development of transportation, and the equally remarkable increase of …
The whole of the chapter containing this passage is devoted to the Apostle’s ruling concerning the manner of public worship in the Christian Church, into which erroneous practice had crept.
It was natural that some doubts should have arisen. The …
The term Heart (physical) is certainly not synonymous with brain, but the MIND (abstract) and Heart (abstract) may be used synonymously, providing we keep both in the abstract and grasp the fundamental variation, or point of difference between the two.
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The difficulty of the phrase “overmuch righteousness” lies in the knowledge that even approximate attainment of righteousness is humanly impossible, and that, therefore, the injunction appears to imply the essential contradiction of going beyond the unattainable.
From this view-point the …
The four hundred and eighty years from the Exodus to the fourth year of Solomon is made up as follows :-
Apart from the possibility of “an error of transcription ” (see Question 19—August issue), which hardly seems likely in this instance, we can offer no explanation of the apparent discrepancy, except upon an assumption:
The assumption is that what was …
In the first and second verses of the first chapter of Genesis we have a record of the state of the earth before the creation days. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” We are not told …
Yes, the difference between Rom. 11, 26 and Isa. 59, 20 is due to the N.T. making use of the Septuagint, whereas our O.T. is translated from the Hebrew, which differs in this passage. There is practically nothing more …