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  About Solomon and Ecclesiastes... Here's my take: The speaker in this book tags himself with the title Qoheleth, a participial form ba...

First, always understand words by their literal meaning - or better, their common usage - unless context demands otherwise. Then, do not ...

The issue of how to best read Paul against the backdrop of Second Temple Judaism has dominated Pauline studies since the publication of Ed S...

Were there prisons in ancient Israel? Some scholars deny that the practice of incarceration ever occurred in the Hebrew scriptures.  While...

May 21st this year will be Ascension Day in the Christian calendar, when Christians throughout the world celebrate and remember the ascensi...

I know a person in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven-whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; Go...

The primary audience of Paul's missionary labors and letters were Gentiles who never fell under the Torah obligations of the Jews .  Des...