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I offer an example of how to engage Moslems in a non-confrontational manner. Using the example of Dr. Anis Zaka, I present a format for 3.00 Friendship Dinners with Christian and Moslem speakers. The first dinner discussion was on ‘What is Islam’ and “What is Christianity.’ The second dinner discussion was on “Who is Mohammed’ … Read more
Luther famously stated that “the best and infallible preparation for grace and the sole disposition toward grace is the eternal … predestination of God” (Disputation against Scholastic Theology, Article 29). This was to combat the Ockhamist doctrine “that God does not deny his grace to the one who does what is in him.” Erasmus updated … Read more
With the growing interest in literary approaches to the Bible, most notably studies in narrative analogy, comes an increasing sensitivity to the literary strategies of a biblical author’s reuse of unique vocabulary and sequences of events from earlier narratives. While scholars have called attention to Isaiah’s reuse of the Exodus Narrative in his “New Exodus” … Read more
Introduction. This proposal is essentially a “Part 2” of an article I wrote that is to be published in JETS 67.4, which is entitled, “Corruption of the Imago Dei: the בני האלהים Motif, Giants, and Jude 5-7.” The article is based upon a paper I delivered at the 75th ETS gathering in San Antonio on Wednesday, … Read more
Since Porphyry introduced his supposition in the third century that there is no predictive element in Daniel’s prophecy, majority of scholars appealing to higher criticism have denied its historicity and authentic unity. Treating it as vaticinia ex eventu (prophecy after the event), they have argued that the book was completed by a pseudonymous writer or … Read more