65 days ago by Mike DeVries

Julia M. O'Brien has a thought provoking essay up on Bible and Interpretation entitled Growing an Audience. Here's a sample: If biblical scholars want to continue to have relevance (and stay employed) we have to start talking more about why people should care about the Bible, not relying on the fact ...

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71 days ago by Mike DeVries

If you are wondering what all the discussion is regarding the existence of David and Solomon and what the Monarchical period might have looked like, this is a good place to start. Eric Cline has the featured article on Bible and Interpretation, entitled Did David and Solomon Exist? He takes the read ...

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71 days ago by Mike DeVries

If you are looking for a great introduction to the Hebrew Bible, John Collins' book, A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible , is one of the best around. Concise. Insightful. Easy to read. That about sums it up. The good news is that the book is on Google books, which means that they have posted a ...

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74 days ago by zaccai

Leviticus 1-3 Click Here to download the lecture notes for our discussion of Leviticus 1-3.

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74 days ago by zaccai

Click Here to download the introduction to Leviticus for our Fall Discipleship Class, Leviticus: Holiness Unto the Lord.

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75 days ago by Mike DeVries

Yesterday in Community of God, we spent a good bit of time discussing textualization, the category of scripture, and the process of canonization. Near the end, Karen shared the following observations as operating principles when reading the scripture today. They were just too good not to post: The B ...

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93 days ago by Mike DeVries

Thanks goes out to Jim Davila for this from the Los Angeles Times: Southern California universities acquire rare religious texts Azusa Pacific University has acquired five fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the earliest known versions of the Hebrew Bible. The 2,000-year-old shards, featuring passage ...

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93 days ago by Mike DeVries

Any serious undertaking in the study of the scriptures has to address a central question - how are we to understand the historic value of the scriptures? Or put another way, when we say the scriptures are "a historical account," what exactly are we claiming about the nature of the scriptures? Are th ...

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102 days ago by Mike

Retrieved and used with permission from www.brethren.org. The central emphasis of the Church of the Brethren is not a creed, but a commitment to follow Christ in simple obedience, to be faithful disciples in the modern world. As do most other Christians, the Brethren believe in God as Creator and lo ...

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103 days ago by Mike DeVries

Robert Cargill offers a bit more insight on one the DSS fragments acquired by Azusa Pacific University, a fragment of the biblical book of Deuteronomy. The fragment of Deuteronomy, a portion believed to be 27:4b-6 from the Samaritan Pentateuch text type, was claimed to have originally been found in ...

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