July Biblical Studies Carnival Posted
… at Reading Acts. This is one of those rare occasions when there is a link back to this very blog!
… at Reading Acts. This is one of those rare occasions when there is a link back to this very blog!
… at Clayboy. On the topic of the size of this carnival, allow me to give an opinion. I’m not in the current carnival. I didn’t nominate any of my posts, and not surprisingly nobody else did either. This is a good approach, I think. Use only the nominations as those of us involved in…
A weakness of a great deal of Bible study is in the failure to truly see the details. In our normal conversations we have multiple contextual clues including shared history and knowledge. When reading scripture, we have to be more careful, because it is not addressed directly to us, and we often don’t share those…
I frequently get into discussions about the inspiration of the Bible. These discussions generally center around such texts as 2 Timothy 3:16, 2 Peter 1:20-21, or Hebrews 4:12. Now all of these are good texts from which to study about the nature of scripture, but it interests me that we build theology from these texts…
… at Fish and Cans. At least I think it’s 311.
More than a year ago I wrote a post titled Just Your Interpretation. In it I challenge the idea that just any interpretation will do, and suggested that there are right and wrong interpretations, and we should aim for right interpretations. I know this goes contrary to the post-modern trend. But I also mentioned another…
. . . at Abnormal Interests. Besides the fact that I have a post from my Threads blog listed, there are a couple of major sections that are particularly worth taking a look. First, there are numerous posts relating to recent discoveries relating to the history of Israel. Duane did a great job of showing…