Mike Goheen on the Drama of Scripture and Worldview

Thanks Steve for the link

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SBL Deliverance of God Audio

I have battled my way in the last few weeks half-way through this important study by Douglas Campbell. This book offers a serious challenge to justification by faith, whether one takes a ‘Lutheran’ of Wrightian New Perspective.  It offers a new paradigm rather than a new perspective.
I was pleased to see hear that a recent [...]

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Free Acess to Encyclopaedia Judaica

The award winning Encyclopedia Judaica is available online for free

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Review of N.T. Wright’s Justification by Piper’s Executive Assistant

The latest volume of Themelios is out which contains a review of N.T Wright’s Justification:Paul’s Vision and God’s Plan by a man called David Mathis from a place called Bethlehem Baptist Church. I thought that sounded familiar so I googled his name and discovered that he is the executive pastoral assistant to John Piper.
That [...]

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Jesus’ Death and the Temple in the Gospel of Mark

The Death of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark
The purpose of my last few months of research has been to explore, within the narrative of the gospel of Mark, the link between Jesus’ death and the Temple.  This link is clearly to be seen at the surface level of the passion narratives where the  Temple [...]

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Collect for William Tyndale Feast Day

Almighty God, you planted in the heart of your servant William Tyndale a consuming passion to bring the Scriptures to people in their native tongue, and endowed him with the gift of powerful and graceful expression and with strength to persevere against all obstacles: Reveal to us your saving Word, as we read and study [...]

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Swimming through Treacle with Anthony Thiselton

I have just finished reading a book by  Anthony Thiselton. Yes! thats right I read it from cover to cover… only pausing once or twice to re-read a sentence or two. I think that this means I am a bona fide Scholar….
However, it wasn’t one of his well known Horizons books. I must confess that [...]

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Richard Bauckham and James Crossley: Jesus and the Eyewitnesses

Richard Bauckham, who recently recieved the prestigious Ramsey Prize, discusses his book Jesus and Eyewitnesses with James Crossley.  Click Here for the audio
Thanks to Chris Tilling for the link.

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Internet and Software Resources for Theology and Biblical Studies Students

Do return here as I will be updating this page… this is just a draft. Any other resources then please tell me.
Postgraduate Trinity students are available to access a wide range of journal articles online in PDF format. To do this it is first neccessary to have registered at Bristol University Library (Arts and Social [...]

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Mark 13: The Temple, tribulation and the arrival of the Eschaton Part 4

Vindication of the Son of Man
R.T France rejects a parousia understanding of this passage as the text does not speak of the ’son of man’ coming to earth but on the basis of its Daniellic background is to be understood, with Mark 8:38, as ‘enthronement, of the the ‘one like the son of man’ coming [...]

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