BIBLICAL STUDIES

I. Introduction The text of the Song of Deborah is largely recognized to be very early Hebrew; it is generally ascribed to sometime in the twelfth-century BC. As such, the song presents us invaluable glimpses into the sociopolitical makeup of Israel shortly after its conquest of Canaan, and therefore especially revealing is Israel’s early structure

I. Introduction “Canon is a word that originates from a Semitic root that means ‘reed’ and survives in English also as the word ‘cane’ [the English is cognate with the Latin canon= “rule” and the Greek kanon= “measuring rod” or “rule”]. It originally referred to a straight reed or stalk that served as a measuring

I. Introduction This study is interested in comparing the content of first and second Samuel and first and second Kings with the content of first and second Chronicles. Points of particular interest are: To what material in Samuel/Kings does the author of Chronicles add. What material does he omit. What material is paralleled. Our goal,

I. Introduction   Our God in the person of our Savior Jesus Christ entered human history in a region of the world known as the Holy Land, or Palestine. Modern Palestine is approximately coincident with modern Israel and parts of Jordan. It is expedient for the believer to study the character of this region in

  I. Introduction The reader may wish to peruse our “Gospels Criticism (Part One)” as a preparatory introduction to this study. Our purpose here is to prayerfully render a critical analysis of Professor Rudolf Bultmann’s New Testament & Mythology (Bultmann|Ogden; Bultmann|bio). We are motivated to do this analysis because contemporary sentiment toward the New Testament

I. IntroductionPlease see figure one for a pictorial summary of the historical periods this study overlaps. Gospels criticism is the same largely cerebral estimation of Scripture as is biblical criticism per se (“Biblical Criticism”), except that the subject is the New Testament; specifically, the subject is the gospels ( Mat 1:1ff, Mar 1:1ff, Luk 1:1ff,

I. Introduction This study was motivated by a lecture series on New Testament history given by Dr. Lloyd Melton. Earliest Christianity can be divided into two significant periods:   (1) That period from the resurrection and ascension of our Savior until the death of Paul the Apostle (c. AD 33/4-65),  (2) That period from the

I. Introduction This summary-study is interested in aspects of Judaism that affected either the earthly ministry of our Savior, or the planting and spread of the Church that bears His name. Toward that end both Palestinian and Hellenistic (Diaspora) Judaism are discussed. The “covenant people” referred to throughout are one and the same, for they