Archive for November, 2006
I am working on OT in the NT this semester because that is one of my seminars. The passage with which I must write a paper is John 12:38-41 and its quotation of Isaiah 6:10. To see what I am doing look at my new page added or click here.
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In Joel Green’s chapter, “The Use of the Old Testament by New Testament Writers” in Hearing the New Testament (Eerdmans, 1995), Green and Richard Hays describes some of the issues involves in interpreting the use of the OT in the NT including: (1) the canonization of the OT (when it took place and to [...]
This question keeps coming up: What is a biblioblog? Most people who know the internet are familiar with blogs (short for web-log); although I have found that in general people are skeptical of blogs. For some, blogs are journals that they keep online. Some in the area of biblical studies have been [...]
Well I am finally back from SBL. I decided to drive from Texas to Washington DC and the drive was extremely long. The drive through the mountains of Tennessee and Virginia were very nice albeit a bit windy and at times rainy.
Upon finally arriving to Washington DC on Friday evening (after 3 days of driving), [...]
We found out last Friday that my wife and I are having a boy. The first attempt at it was unsuccessful, but on the second try it worked. Here is a sonogram pic:
Update:
More pictures available at flikr here.
In biblical classes in college and in seminary, I was told about a movement among radical Jews in the time of Jesus known as the zealots. They were apparently akin to modern political movements in the Mideast. Jesus of course was not one of these zealots, but rather Jesus was a peaceful messiah [...]
Christology
Bauckham’s earlier work on God Crucified (Eerdmans, 1999) argued: “That the high Christology expressed in the New Testament did not find its antecedent in the semi-divine, intermediary figures in second temple Judaism (contra Larry Hurtado, One God, One Lord: Early Christian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism [Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988; reprint, Edinburgh: T. & T. [...]
This is the claim of Richard Bauckham (“The Audience of the Fourth Gospel,” in Jesus in Johannine Tradition by Robert T. Fortna and Tom Thatcher, eds., 102) who says: “Yet the assumption that each gospel was written for a specific church or group of churches has come to be widely taken for granted, despite the [...]
