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[Ideally intended for a Septuagint section, but there is none this year for some reason!?] In the last three centuries before Christ, the books of the Hebrew Scriptures were translated into Greek at various times and in various places. For some books, the original translation (the Old Greek, OG) was also accompanied by later translations … Read more
This paper will explore the positive and negative repercussions of the First Council of Nicaea’s decision to separate the annual Easter observance from the date of the Jewish Passover and Emperor Constantine’s publication of that decision. It will also offer practical suggestions for redeeming the historical-contextual gap between the two observances and for improving Jewish-Christian … Read more
The purpose of this paper is to argue two points. The first point is that the concept of perichoresis emerges from the field of Christian theology as a form of “tacit knowledge.” The second point is that perichoresis as a form of tacit knowledge creates a more holistic prolegomenon for the creator-creature relationship than does … Read more
Scholars have proposed various paradigms to analyze Paul’s ethical reasoning and its deep connection to his theological convictions, drawing on diverse approaches such as social-scientific identity theory (e.g., Horrell’s concept of solidarity in Christ), Stoic moral reasoning (e.g., Engberg-Pedersen’s I–X–S model), philosophical ethics (e.g., Zimmermann’s notion of implicit ethics), and “gift” theory (e.g., Barclay). This … Read more
The task of this paper is to focus on one towering figure in Baptist theology, John Gill (1697-1771), to determine whether and to what extent his ecclesiology is in line with the four marks of the church found in the Nicene creed (one, holy, catholic, and apostolic). Therefore, this paper will examine the writings of … Read more
This paper will explore the citation of Psalm 118:25–26 in the Johannine entrance narrative (John 12:12–15). This is an especially significant passage, because of the ten explicit Psalms quotations in the Fourth Gospel, only four are paralleled in the Synoptics, and this is the only one quoted verbatim in all of them. Psalm 118 is … Read more
According to one award-winning biography, Sam Houston remains the singular figure “standing like a colossus astride the middle decades of the 1800s.” Remembered by Texans for his leadership during the war for independence, he was also a man with complex and developing understandings of Christianity and religious devotion. He carried misunderstandings of Christian theology and … Read more
Co-authored: Epic stories like The Odyssey, the Aeneid, or more recently The Lord of the Rings are universally accepted and beloved stories. But beyond mere entertainment, these fictional accounts engage humanity at deep formative levels, especially utilizing the genre of myth to interact with and promote metaphysical and ethical realities deemed key to human existence. … Read more
As James Barr aptly demonstrated almost fifty years ago, a binary between literal and free is not a helpful lens through which to view Septuagint Translation Technique since a translation can be both literal and free at the same time, but in different ways (James Barr, The Typology of Literalism in Ancient Biblical Translations, MSU … Read more
Dotting the landscape of eastern Virginia are historic churches with churchyards containing the mortal remains of their people. Epitaphs and funerary inscriptions abound in these cemeteries, and they offer a look into a variety of societal, economic, historic, and religious lives and times of the people they represent. During the colonial period (1607-1783), it was … Read more