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March 25, 2024 | bill-mounce
Is Sin an Active and Foreign Agent in your Body? (James 4:1)
My nephew Dave Gundlach preached an excellent sermon (at 39:00 in the video) this morning (March 24, 2024) that alerted me to something I had never se...
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March 19, 2024 | Andrew E. Hill
The Contours of the Land in Israel's History
The Land of Palestine The land of Palestine took its name from the Philistines (the Pelishtim in Hebrew) who settled along the Mediterranean coast from Joppa t...
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March 14, 2024 | bill-mounce
Is Jesus “a" god or “the” God in John 1:1?
I received an email asking me about the translation by the Jehovah's Witnesses in John 1:1. Because there is no article in front of the Greek word for "God," th...
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March 25, 2024 | bill-mounce
Is Sin an Active and Foreign Agent in your Body? (James 4:1)
My nephew Dave Gundlach preached an excellent sermon (at 39:00 in the video) this morning (March 24, 2024) that alerted me to some...
Read More
March 19, 2024 | Andrew E. Hill
The Contours of the Land in Israel's History
The Land of Palestine The land of Palestine took its name from the Philistines (the Pelishtim in Hebrew) who settled along the Mediterranea...
Read More
March 14, 2024 | bill-mounce
Is Jesus “a" god or “the” God in John 1:1?
I received an email asking me about the translation by the Jehovah's Witnesses in John 1:1. Because there is no article in front of the Gree...
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February 26, 2024 | bill-mounce
Is the Aorist Tense Really Vanilla? (Matt 22:7)
I would guess that most Greek students think of the aorist tense as a general, nondescript tense. In one sense, this might be somewhat accur...
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February 20, 2024 | Nijay K. Gupta
An Interview with A. J. Swoboda, author of The Gift of Thorns
A. J. SWOBODA (PhD, Birmingham) is assistant professor of Bible and theology at Bushnell University. He also leads a Doctor of Ministry prog...
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February 19, 2024 | bill-mounce
Hail Mary the Queen, and Word Studies (Luke 1:28)
Someone asked me the other day about the angel’s address to Mary. In the King James it reads, “Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord...
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February 5, 2024 | bill-mounce
Greek Things (Phil 2:20-21)
I am sure that all languages have abbreviated ways of expressing meaning, and for a native speaker interpretation is probably quite automati...
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December 18, 2023 | bill-mounce
Women, Wives, or Deaconesses? (1 Tim 3:11)
One of the most basic rules in hermeneutics is context. As a friend of mine says, “Context is King.” But how much context? Does the issue of...
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December 11, 2023 | bill-mounce
Is there meaning in structure? (Heb 12:1–2)
There are times I feel myself being drawn back to more of a word–for–word translation. I think that the form in which meaning is conveyed ca...
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December 4, 2023 | bill-mounce
Is the gospel “about” Jesus or proclaimed “by” Jesus? (Mark 1:1)
There is a distinction between two uses of the genitive case that is especially important. When Mark introduces his gospel by writing “go...
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November 23, 2023 | ZA Blog
The Puritan Experiment in America
Thomas S. Kidd (PhD, Notre Dame) is distinguished professor of history at Baylor University. He has written many books, including most recen...
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November 20, 2023 | bill-mounce
Bible Contradiction: Matthew’s Citation of Jeremiah (Matt 27:9)
In speaking of Judas’ burial, Matthew writes, “Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: ‘They took the thirty pieces of s...
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November 14, 2023 | ZA Blog
An Interview with George Athas, author of Bridging the Testaments
GEORGE ATHAS (PhD, University of Sydney) is director of research and senior lecturer in Hebrew, Old Testament, and early chur...
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November 6, 2023 | bill-mounce
Aorist, Present, and Sequence (John 15:6)
Gone are the days of thinking the aorist must refer to a past event. Even though it is a default tense, it still has a wider range of meanin...
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October 31, 2023 | ZA Blog
An Interview with Matthew Barrett, author of The Reformation as Renewal
MATTHEW BARRETT (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is associate professor of Christian theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological&...
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October 23, 2023 | bill-mounce
What’s Missing in John 15:25?
I would guess that in all languages, words are left out that the reader must assume. We do it in English, and the biblical writers do it as...
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