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A Question Is Always True

Look.  Wisdom calls out, and Discernment lifts her voice.  Proverbs 8:1  Robert Alter Calls out – Since the discovery of significant archeological artifacts in the late 19th Century, biblical scholars have had to face the question, “How does archeological evidence impact biblical faith?”  The answers have not been easy.  As Haggai Misgav points out, “The…
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Memory Loss

You shall also teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. Deuteronomy 11:19 NASB Speaking – It is curious and significant that the Hebrew word for “male” (zākār) comes from the root zākar meaning…
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Law with a Capital L

So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.  Romans 7:12 NASB Law – It is common Christian belief that the “Law of Moses” has been set aside with the death of Jesus.  Under the Augustinian-Lutheran interpretation, the “Law” was a restrictive, despotic decree for Israel because Israel needed…
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What’s New?

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous man shall live by faith.”  Romans 1:17  NASB 1995 Is revealed – Paul has this tendency to write run-on Greek sentences.  In fact, the opening of Ephesians is one long sentence which we break up…
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The LXX Tradition

And the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets passed on before the Lord, and afterwards the warriors entered, and the rest of the crowd behind the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.  And all the rest of the crowd encircled the city from close at hand   Joshua…
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Going Deeper (2)

Then the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew the trumpets; and the armed men went ahead of them, and the rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, while they continued to blow the trumpets.  Joshua 6:13  NASB They continued to – Okay,…
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