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Dr. David M. Carr (Union Theological Seminary, New York) is a leading scholar on the textual formation of the Hebrew Bible. His books include: Holy Resilience: The Bible’s Traumatic Origins; The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: A New Reconstruct…
The vast majority of translations of Deuteronomy 6:4-5 read something like this:
“Hear, O Israel, YHWH is our god; YHWH is one. And thou shalt love YHWH thy god with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”
Assu…
(1 Corinthians 1:1) Παῦλος κλητὸς ἀπόστολος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ διὰ θελήματος θεοῦ καὶ Σωσθένης ὁ ἀδελφὸς
(KJV) Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
Note that “to be” is added in …
I’ve done a decent amount of study from theologians and teachers of the Word regarding John 6:37-40, I’ve even studied it apart from the teachers. It seems most apparent and obvious that Jesus will succeed in losing none out of all that t…
Currently projected location on the K-64 Bible Music Highway Trek Thru Truth And River Maze Join Forces For Fall Festival Sept. 16 The Cleveland…
Is there any legitimate reason given by scholars as to why Luke uniquely adds the account of Jesus healing the ear of Malchus after it being severed off?
In Luke 22:50-51, it is written,
50 And one of them struck the servant of the hi…
I am really scratching my head on this verse.
John 15:22, “If I [Jesus] had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.”
It seems from the context just before this that the “them” and …
![Since episkopos, baptizmo, diakonos, etc. are “transliterated” often, could not evangelidzno also be justly transliterated as in e.g. Luke 9:6? [closed]](https://churchinfluence.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Since-episkopos-baptizmo-diakonos-etc-are-transliterated-often-could-not-evangelidzno-also-be-justly-transliterated-as-in-eg-Luke-96-closed-300x169.png)
Just as Christianity has co-opted Greek words, such as "baptism," and added new connotation to the Koine Greek, and did not "translate" it, could not, or should not, the word "evangelidzmo (sic) be also translitera…
Revelation 3:9
I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars–I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.
Was this group of people…
I would like to know if the Philip who baptized the eunuch in Acts 8 is Philip the disciple or the deacon mentioned in Acts 6