The Apostle Paul began his professional life as a Pharisee who was determined to exterminate Jesus’ disciples. He encountered the Risen Christ one day and it
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Over the years, and continuing until today, there has been a running debate among scholars as to where the Temple was located on the Temple Mount.
Przepis na bezglutenowe ciasto będące połączeniem piernika i keksu.
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Amos Chapter 9a (one of two parts) We conclude Amos with chapter 9 being divided into two segments. It is a short chapter but two very distinct topics. One is a conclusion of Northern Israel’s exis…
The Bible is full of chiasms (kai'-a-zumz), literary structures used to provide a framework to a story--what a novelist might call a story arc--or to convey additional meaning to what is contained by the bare text. The singular is technically chiasmus and the plural is chiasmi, since the word is derived from Greek and Latin. Since I speak English, I prefer chiasm/chiasms. In a chiasm, a series of phrases or concepts in the first half of the narrative are mirrored in the second half, usually--but not always--with one, unmirrored statement at the center. Chiasms were used extensively by writers in many ancient cultures, and sometimes they are still used today, especially in poetry and song. Along with parallelisms, thematic allusions, Hebrew word play, and a number of other literary devices, chiasms can give fascinating insight on the meaning that the original Biblical writers intended to convey. They can be as short as a single verse or span multiple books. Most commonly they span a few verses or a chapter. A typical chiasm might look something like this: A - God speaks to prophet B - Prophet speaks to people C - People respond to man D - God acts C - People respond to God B - People speak to prophet A - Prophet speaks to God Sometimes they are very easy to see, but often they are obscured by translation from Hebrew or by artificial chapter and verse divisions. Being able to read the Hebrew (which I cannot), definitely makes them easier to find. Tony Robinson has a lot of great teaching on chiasms and thematic connections in Scripture. You can check them out here: Restoration of Torah Ministries. And I have a growing list of them here: Index of Biblical Chiasmi and Parallelisms. If you want to learn how to find and understand Biblical chiasms for yourself, sign up for Common Sense Bible Study, where I host The Chiasm Course!
In the last two posts, we dealt with Baal and Ashtoreth and we will finish up dealing with them in this post before we move on to the rest of Jezebel’s wicked family tree. In this particular post, we’ll delve into the far reach of this false father-god
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Tomorrow, we celebrate the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. I look at Peter the Fisherman who was made a “fisher of men”. In particular, one may wonder what kind of boat he ha…
In biblical cosmology, the firmament is the structure above the atmosphere, conceived as a vast solid dome. According to the Genesis creation narrative, God created the firmament to separate the waters above the earth from the waters below the earth. The word is anglicized from Latin firmamentum
Excerps from "God's Festivals in Scripture and History Volume 1: The Spring Festivals" by Samuele Bacchiocchi, Ph. D., Andrews University; The Kings James Bible; The New International Version; and the Complete Jewish Bible.We are about to enter the season of the Biblical Spring Festivals. Because of the Passover starting at sundown on April 8th, this blog is focused on the relevance of God’s feast days for all His people, especially Christians, today. My objective is to determine the continuity
