MSH | January 13, 2009
My thanks to Rob Bradshaw and his Biblical Studies.org.uk blog for posting this classic article by Donald Hagner. It’s great for our current discussion about the process of inspiration, since it covers the well-known phenomenon of how the NT authors often quoted the OT from memory. The result was a lot of imprecision in their [...]
MSH | January 11, 2009
My thanks to my friend Mark Goodacre, NT professor at Duke, for blogging this. I get asked about the Jesus Seminary from time to time. Mark writes: Bruce Chilton offers reflection on the Jesus Seminar and the Jesus Project in an article over on Bible and Interpretation: Plus ça change… “The Jesus Seminar” and “The [...]
MSH | January 8, 2009
If you’re following the comments on this post, you will note that one of the readers (Chris) has argued that the rules for the passover in the book of Exodus weren’t really rules – Exodus only described a memorial. Therefore, the rules in Deuteronomy were the “real” rules to observe — those were the ones [...]
MSH | January 5, 2009
In case you thought otherwise, Bart Ehrman’s idea have not gone un-protested in the field of textual criticism. You just never hear that in the popular media. Bart Ehrman of the University of North Carolina and Peter J Williams of Tyndale House, Cambridge recently appeared on the radio programme “Unbelievable?” hosted by Justin Brierly on [...]
MSH | January 3, 2009
Charles Halton at awilum.com posted a very cool listing of online (PDF) resources for the study of Hebrew and Semitic languages compiled by Chip Hardy. Check it out! Technorati Tags: free books, hebrew, semitic
