Wednesday, April 12, 2017

A Question for Good Friday: Did Jesus Speak Aramaic or Hebrew from the Cross?

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As is generally well-known to the careful reader of the New Testament, Jesus’ cry of dereliction from the cross, recorded in both Matthe...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT CONVERSION-INITIATION AND THE SIGN VALUE OF TONGUES-SPEAKING

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Growing up as I did within the movement of Oneness Pentecostalism, the experience of speaking in tongues was highly valued as a constitu...
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Thursday, March 2, 2017

Did Paul forbid women to teach, that they are morally inferior to men, and that their obligation is to be silent?

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1 Timothy 2:11-15 is by far the most controversial in the New Testament with respect to the role of women in the church. In the first plac...
Thursday, February 9, 2017

The Oneness Community and the Social World

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[In this post, I share a chapter from my dissertation, The People of the Name: Oneness Pentecostalism in the United States (Florida State ...
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Sunday, February 5, 2017

BAPTISMAL LANGUAGE SIDE-BY-SIDE

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In light of Dr. Joe’s recent excellent posts on the little-known history of the origins of Oneness Pentecostalism, and because a good de...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Ancient Near Eastern Texts and the Earliest Biblical Writings (4 of 4)

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Encoding the Covenant Law in the Bible (Part 4 of 4)             The compilation of written law codes in the ancient Near East is we...

Ancient Near Eastern Texts and the Earliest Biblical Writings (3 of 4)

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Law Codes             Along with literary writings, many of the political writings uncovered from the ancient world have proven relev...