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Updating & Inerrancy?
Associate Professor of Old Testament at The Master’s Seminary, Michael Grisanti, has provided an evangelical proposal of the doctrine of inerrancy that takes into account the textual updating observed...
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History and Hermeneutics: A PhD Symposium at MBTS
The Ph. D. Fellowship at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary hosted a symposium on January 23, 2012 titled “History and Hermeneutics: Defining and Defending the Historical-Grammatical Method,” in...
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Wisdom, Ontology, and Good Preaching
While continuing my way through Bartholomew and O’Dowd’s recent Old Testament Wisdom Literature: A Theological Introduction, I came across the quote below from Nicholas Wolterstorff (On Universals: An...
View ArticleHistory and Hermeneutics, Reading and Worldview
A few thoughts regarding John Sailhamer’s hermeneutical method presented in his The Meaning of the Pentateuch (IVP, 2009): In response to Sailhamer’s literary and canonical approach, which he...
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Israel’s Faith and the Historical Acts of God
Note: This is a guest post by Kent Capps, a dear friend, faithful pastor, and stout thinker. I believe his comments are a helpful reminder of the need to think about the Old Testament within a...
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Walton’s Guiding Principles for Comparative Study
I recently re-visited this helpful list of guiding principles for conducting comparative studies using the Old Testament and surrounding ancient Near Eastern sources while preparing for a class on the...
View ArticleWhat hath Paul to do with Moses? (The Relationship between the Testaments 1)
This question speaks to the heart of one of the most crucial questions in the discipline of Old Testament Theology: What is the relationship between the Old and New Testaments? This question is crucial...
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Fight Pride by Reading the Old Testament
Paul’s use of the Old Testament in 1 Cor 10:1-11 is a locus classicus for Christians seeking to understand how to understand the Old Testament text within the church. And the immediate verses that...
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Resolve to Read the Bible like a Book
This is the time of year that many people begin printing out their preferred reading plans for working through the Bible in another calendar year (see Justin Taylor’s excellent list of the various...
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Things an SBL President Could Say in 1960
The following excerpt is taken from the presidential address given by R. B. Y. Scott in 1960 at Union Theological Seminary titled “Priesthood, Prophecy, Wisdom, and the Knowledge of God.” While the...
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