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How to Get an Advanced Bible Degree for Free

October 31, 2020 by Tavis Bohlinger 9 Comments

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by Ryan Lytton

Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn away from them. Proverbs 4:5.

Wisdom and understanding are everywhere available but are nevertheless ostensibly rarely found. A student of the Word must be diligent in their search but there are least two problems in their way:

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Filed Under: Miscellaneous Tagged With: Bible, covid, covid study, degree, education, free, free bible degree, new testament, old testament, online, online degree, online masters, online study, Study

Demons, DSS, and Jesus: Psalm 91 and the Need for Text Critical Pastors

October 20, 2020 by Tavis Bohlinger 7 Comments

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by Donald McIntyre

Textual criticism is a hot topic among biblical scholars. The views on the discipline’s profitability span the extremes of being of crucial importance for serious scholarship and the opposing view of being hostile towards the revered doctrines of inerrancy and the sufficiency of Scripture.

Textual criticism of the Old Testament is perhaps a greater challenge than that of the New Testament due to the distance between the manuscripts extant and the proposed dates of authorship. However, this article seeks to show why text criticism is important for biblical scholars and exegetes of all persuasions.

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Filed Under: Miscellaneous Tagged With: Bible, dead sea scrolls, demons, dss, inerrancy, jesus, lxx, old testament, pastors, preaching, text criticism, textual

Hearing the Scripture Reader’s Voice: Biblical Performance Criticism in the Classroom

September 4, 2020 by Tavis Bohlinger 1 Comment

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Biblical performance criticism is a methodology based on the assumption that much of the literature collected in the Bible represents oral performances that were at one time either told from memory or presented as prepared readings before audiences.1 The performance critic studies the biblical writings as oral performances with the aim to uncover certain conventions of orally performed texts—features often neglected when employing other biblical critical methodologies.

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Filed Under: Didaktikos, Greek, Hebrew, New Testament, Old Testament Tagged With: biblical studies, criticism, david seal, emotion, Isaiah, new testament, old testament, pace, preaching, shame

Academic Jobs in Biblical Studies and Theology: Mar 23 – Apr 21, 2020

April 21, 2020 by Tavis Bohlinger 6 Comments

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This past month (yes, it’s been that long) has been consumed by worries about the pandemic and hours spend indoors resisting the temptation to binge on Netflix. Yet there are still jobs being advertised around the world for those in biblical studies and theology. So take heart, friends, and look at the list below as a sign of hope and human resilience. Happy hunting.

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Filed Under: Academic Jobs Tagged With: assistant, associate, Bible, biblical studies, career, new testament, old testament, phd, postdoc, professor, religion, theology

Red, Red Wine: Connecting Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary and Biblical Archaeology

December 12, 2019 by jonathanhomrighausen Leave a Comment

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One of the key elements for teaching any language is culture. Indeed, many students put themselves through the rigor of grammatical analysis mainly in hopes of getting to the promised land of cultural understanding. Yet in teaching biblical languages we sometimes forget this. How can Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary by Conceptual Categories help students make connections between biblical language and the cultural world of ancient Israel?

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Filed Under: Hebrew, Old Testament Tagged With: Bible, homrighausen, old testament, pleins, vineyard, wine

Dueling Professors?

July 10, 2019 by Tavis Bohlinger 2 Comments

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An Example of Co-Teaching as a Means of Modeling Interdisciplinary Dialogue

Eric J. Tully | Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

One of the challenges in Christian higher education is navigating the tension between various fields of study. Christian institutions should have an inherent unity that comes from our faith and mission, but there is often a basic fragmentation that reflects the academic guilds in which we have been trained and now participate.

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Filed Under: Didaktikos, Hebrew, Old Testament Tagged With: aquinas, augustine, Christian, education, old testament, seminary, teaching, teds, theological

Andrew Abernethy on “What Makes a Good Biblical Scholar?”

February 21, 2019 by Tavis Bohlinger 1 Comment

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What makes a good scholar? One’s tendency in answering this question is to describe a scholar in her/his own image, with her/his own particular interests.

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Filed Under: Miscellaneous, What Makes a Good Biblical Scholar? Tagged With: abernethy, andrew, biblical, college, old testament, scholar, wheaton

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