Monday, November 09, 2009

Questions in Hebrew

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This question was raised by a student on behalf of someone else, and I have been slow to answer it. Specifically, how does one determine tha...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Follow-up On Jesus and the Antichrist

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I realize that it's possible the video is a hoax (but search on youtube .com for "did Jesus name the antichrist ?" and there i...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Did Jesus Name the Antichrist?

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There is currently a video clip making the rounds on the internet in which the narrator asks, and “answers” this question. His argumentatio...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Longman-Adam Follow-up

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The really sad thing about this video clip and the others in the series, is that it is produced and promoted by the Wilberforce Fellowship (...

Longman on Adam, or Why I'm Not Surprised

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The following video clip has been making the rounds of Facebook and evangelical and Reformed blogs for the past couple of weeks. http://www...
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Saturday, September 19, 2009

On Avoiding Over-Interpretation

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This post was provoked by a student's request for some guidelines after some remarks I made in class about the danger of over-interpreti...
Saturday, August 08, 2009

God forbid that we should bequeath such Sabbaths to our children.

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There was the dreary Sunday of his childhood, when he sat with his hands before him, scared out of his senses by a horrible tract which comm...
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Out of the Country

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We will be traveling to Wales for two weeks, starting tomorrow, so I will not be posting until after July 17.
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Uncle Ben's Book Blog: The Sharing Knife: Vol. 1: Beguilement

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I just finished listening to this on CD today. I had read it previously, but had enjoyed it, and when I saw it at the library, figured I...
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Song of Songs: Response to Chris Carter, Part 1

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Chris raises the valid question of whether or not I have made a false dichotomy between literal and allegorical interpretation of the Song o...

Uncle Ben's Book Blog: 1844: Vol. 1, Religious Movements

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This work, which is the first of a three-volume set, was written by Jerome L. Clark in 1968. He was at that time Professor of History at Sou...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Uncle Ben's Book Blog: Assorted Books

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This is summer, and I am working my way through a combination of books. As I have mentioned, I am about halfway through Beale's The Temp...

Exegetical Notes; The Song of Songs: Is it Literal?

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For over a century scholars, including many conservative Reformed ones, have been saying that the Song of Songs is not an allegory, and ough...
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Monday, June 15, 2009

Uncle Ben's Book Blog: 1491:New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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I just finished listening to this on CD (library copy). In this book the journalist Charles C. Mann summarizes and presents the conclusions ...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Exegetical Notes: ThePatriarchal History

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In outlining the Book of Genesis, the difficult part is subdividing the patriarchal history. We know that it covers the lives of Abraham, Is...
Monday, June 08, 2009

Uncle Ben's Book Blog: The Peculiar Life of Sundays

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I have just finished the book and found it to be something very useful for those of us who are Calvinistic sabbatarians to read and conside...
Saturday, June 06, 2009

Uncle Ben's Book Blog: "Sunday" Update

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Thanks to a nice note from the author, I now understand the difference between non-observant Christians and lapsed Christians. The former ar...

Leviticus 18:9-11, or What Constitutes Incest?

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This post is pursuant to an issue that a former student raised. I thought somebody might profit from it. Leviticus 18:9-11 Literal Transla...
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Thursday, June 04, 2009

Uncle Ben's Book Blog: "Temple" Update

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I've now read the first four chapters of G. K. Beale's The Temple and the Church's Mission . I find myself in general agreement ...

Uncle Ben's Book Blog: The Hunted

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Another Elmore Leonard book. I had listened to most of this in the car over the weekend, but finished it Tuesday. Take a businessman who has...