Authorship of the Pastoral Epistles: What does it mean?
Παῦλος ἀπόστολος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ … Why can’t we simply trust that the person mentioned as the author of the Pastoral Epistles is indeed their author? With the advent of historical and literary criticism...
View ArticleWho would you choose? The scholars showdown: Part 1
If you had to chose between a book by Carson or Moo who would it be? What if it were a choice between Wright and one of his adversaries or Fee and another NT Scholar? Over the next week or so, each day...
View ArticleAuthorship of the Pastoral Epistles: Does it matter?
Brian LePort asks, in response to a post by Daniel Kirk, whether the Pastorals should have been canonized if they are not Pauline? My immediate response is yes but I do believe that God was at work...
View ArticleA Wednesday afternoon with Ben Witherington…
I took some time out this afternoon to work on my critical review of Ben Witherington’s “Indelible Image Volume One: The Individual Witnesses“. The more I engage with this text the more challenged I am...
View ArticleThe New Testament According to Tom…
A few weeks back someone pointed out to me that <a href=”New Testament for Everyone “>N.T. Wright’s translation of the New Testament had not as yet been released in the United States. I purchased...
View ArticleThe Epistles: a thought…
It is a curious thing that each and every one of the Epistles is pastoral in nature. Each one is concerned with helping a community of believers follow Jesus and live faithfully as the people of God....
View ArticlePauline Authorship
James mentioned it and then Dave Black chimed in on this graph of scholars and Pauline Authorship: Sadly, it seems, Dave is one of the very few scholars who holds to Pauline authorship of Hebrews. You...
View ArticleGood Grief! Pastoral reflections on grief and loss…
We don’t talk a whole lot any more about the last days. When I first became a Christian in the 90’s churches were often filled with end-times charts and end end-time preachers with big sticks or...
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