Saturday, September 26, 2020

Timothy D. Howell on Repentance ("metanoia") in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Sirach, and the Gospel of Matthew

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      Use of metanoia in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Sirach . For a first century Jew, repentance would include both the idea of moral acti...
Friday, September 25, 2020

Valerie Stein on Stephen's Use of χειροποίητος ("made by hands") in Acts 7:48 as a Reference to Idolatry

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Commenting on Stephen’s comment about God not dwelling in temples “made with hands” ( χειροποιητος ) in Acts 7 as a reference to idolatry , ...

Reading 1 Kings 8:27 in light of Isaiah 66:1

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    But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I ...

Stephen B. Champman on Malachi 4:4-6 (Heb 3:22-24)

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  Commenting on Mal 4:4-6 (Heb 3:22-24), Stephen Chapman wrote the following on this passage which might be of interest to Latter-day Saints...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Stephen B. Champman on Josephus' Affirmation of the Proto-Canonical Books Exhausting the Books of Old Testament Canon

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    With Josephus we come to the first explicit effort to describe a canonical ‘order’ (Against Apion, I:37-43), made at the end of the firs...

Pesachim 68a in the Mishnah: Righteous People will Help Resurrect the Dead

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While reading the Mishnah, I came across the following where it is predicted that humans will be instrumental agents in resurrecting the dea...

Stephen B. Chapman vs. belief Prophecy Ceased (e.g., during the time of Maccabees)

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    . . . prophecy never ceased at all, although it often functioned in the late period as a more scribal form of activity . . . the lack ...