Friday, April 23, 2021

Gordon D. Fee on The Son of God as αρχη of the New Creation

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    Col. 1:18 (Gen. 1:1)—The Son of God as αρχη of the New Creation   Having made the point that the Son is πρωτοτοκος in relation t...

Loveday Alexander on the Use of Amos 9:11-12 by James in Acts 15 during the Council of Jerusalem

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    Scholars have long noted that the form of the text James quotes reflects not the Hebrew of Amos 9:11-12 but the Greek of the Septuagin...

William G. Dever on Archaeology and Solomon's Temple

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    Albright is long gone (he died in 1971), and all of his achievements have been undermined. The archaeological research for the histori...

Howard Schwartz on a 16th century Jewish Tradition about the Body of Moses Transforming into the Torah Scroll and Back Again

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    The Body of Moses   Rabbi Hayim Vital once dreamed that it was the custom of Israel to bring the body of Moses to the synagogue on...

Howard Schwartz on the Keys of the Temple Being Returned to Heaven at the Destruction of the Second Temple

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    The Keys of the Temple   The Temple in Jerusalem had been set on fire, and the moment of destruction had arrived. The High Priest ...

Graham Oppy on Hilbert’s Hotel and Large, denumerable, physical infinities

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    Suppose that the hotel is, indeed, full – there are people in every room – that that one new guest arrives. There is surely no problem...

Reuben Miller (1846) on how James J. Strang's Claims to Authority Undercut Joseph Smith's Revelations and Theology of Priesthood

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    I went to Nauvoo, mixed in Strangism, and after investigating the matter about a week, I came out in public lectures in favor of the n...