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More Evidence that So-Called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife was Forged

Hat tip to Mark Goodacre via Twitter for this update on the forgery. The post is by Coptologist Christian Askeland. The post More Evidence that So-Called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife was Forged appeared first...

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The New Testament Writers Had the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in their Heads

I often get the question of whether I think books like 1 Enoch are canonical. I tell people I don’t — and that the question doesn’t matter. A book doesn’t need to be canonical to be useful, or to...

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Paul’s Use of Genesis 15:5 in Romans 4:18 in Light of Early Jewish...

This is Part 2 of a series of guest pots by David Burnett. Part 1 is located here. – MSH   PART 2 – Early Jewish Qualitative Interpretation of Genesis 15:5 and Related Texts Philo of Alexandria and the...

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Paul’s Use of Genesis 15:5 in Romans 4:18 in Light of Early Jewish...

This is Part 3 of the series by David Burnett; see Part 1, Part 2  Part 3 – Becoming as the Stars and the Inheritance of the Nations   The Deuteronomic Vision of the Celestial Bodies as the Gods (or...

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Paul’s Use of Genesis 15:5 in Romans 4:18 in Light of Early Jewish...

This is Part 4 of David Burnett’s guest blogging series   Philo’s Spec. Law 4.187, 2 Baruch 21:4; 48:8, and Romans 4:17: Misconstrual and a Missing Link?   This passage is frequently cited by...

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Naked Bible Podcast Episode 158: The Fate of the Ark of the Covenant

The Ark of the Covenant is well-known because of the popular Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark. That pop culture film offers just one of over a dozen theories on what happened to the Ark of...

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Heavenly Worship in Second Temple Judaism, Early Christianity, and Gnostic...

By guest blogger, Stephen L. Huebscher This series was originally written as an academic paper for presentation at a conference. At the time, we were doing research on the divine council for what ended...

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Heavenly Worship in Second Temple Judaism, Early Christianity, and Gnostic...

By guest blogger Stephen L. Huebscher   STEP THREE: LOOKING AT THE THREE GROUPS INDIVIDUALLY CONCEPTIONS OF HEAVENLY WORSHIP IN SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM The variety of groups and beliefs at this time was...

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Heavenly Worship in Second Temple Judaism, Early Christianity, and Gnostic...

Guest blogger, Stephen Huebscher This is the third of five posts in this series. B. CONCEPTIONS OF HEAVENLY WORSHIP IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY Early Christian conceptions of heavenly worship drew heavily on...

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Heavenly Worship in Second Temple Judaism, Early Christianity, and Gnostic...

Part 4 of a series by guest blogger, Stephen Huebscher ——- C. CONCEPTIONS OF HEAVENLY WORSHIP IN GNOSTIC GROUPS This post deals with groups that are known as “Gnostics” from the Greek word gnosis =...

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