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Continue ReadingLilith in the Bible and Mythology – Connections between Lilith, Adam’s first wife, and Jadis, the White Witch of Narnia Lilith – Seductress, heroine or murderer?
Continue ReadingPeter: How a Flawed Disciple Became Jesus’ Successor on Earth At BAS Library. A good read with a lot of info about Simon/Peter/Cephas/Rock relationship with Jesus and the others including Paul.
Continue ReadingHow did the Church decide which books to include in the New Testament? When was the decision made? By whom? The surviving evidence unfortunately does not provide answers in the detail we would like, but it does document a number of the developments that eventually produced the New Testament as we know it. Bible Review […]
Continue Readinghttp://www.textexcavation.com/synopticlistedinventory.html This inventory lists every passage or pericope present in any of the synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, whether extant in only one of them, in two of them, or in all three. I also provide an itemized inventory that breaks down each passage into phrases, or items. https://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html The Synoptic Gospel Parallels with John Continued […]
Continue ReadingOne reason why many people find Creative Evolution so attractive is that it gives one much of the emotional comfort of believing in God and none of the less pleasant consequences. When you are feeling fit and the sun is shining and you do not want to believe that the whole universe is a mere […]
Continue Reading“In some ways—oddly enough—the more than 200 biblical manuscripts in Hebrew found among the Dead Sea Scrolls have elevated the authority of the Greek Septuagint at the expense of the Masoretic text, the received Hebrew version preserved by the Jewish community for 2,000 years. Nevertheless, there is reason to believe that the received text had […]
Continue ReadingGood discussion of the ancient texts, Hebrew use of consonants, and how the Dead Sea Scrolls have helped clarify passages. https://www.baslibrary.org/bible-review/15/4/11
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Continue Readinghttps://www.baslibrary.org/bible-review/9/2/17 “How did the Church decide which books to include in the New Testament? When was the decision made? By whom? The surviving evidence unfortunately does not provide answers in the detail we would like, but it does document a number of the developments that eventually produced the New Testament as we know it.“
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