Tag Archives: new testament
i taught a rabbi today
that the New Testament was written in Greek, not Latin as he had supposed. It seems that to many Jews, Christianity means medieval Catholicism. Related Posts:beyond the canon listhebrew thursday: pronouns and prepositionsreverse folk etymologywhat’s going on with GOD in genesis 6:5?a curious coincidence
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a curious coincidence
Today was my first day of Portuguese classes (I love languages, and I’ve previously had formal training in French, Latin, and Spanish, and I’ve taught myself a fair bit of Hebrew and Greek). Anyhow, Portuguese. Another one of my fascinations is textual variants of the New Testament, and I’m always out looking for new fonts [...]
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beyond the canon list
It would be nice to say that once we’ve got Jesus and the canon settled, that’s the end of the story. And it would be partially true. If you read the books of the Bible, no matter what translation they are in (unless it is by some sort of weird group purposefully altering the text), [...]
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The canon
If we agree that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead, and that the Bible is the Word of God, we then come to another question: what is the Bible? In the last post, I defined the Bible as the Old Testament (Tanakh) and the New Testament. If these books are to govern our lives, [...]
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alexander campbell’s ‘the living oracles’