Baptist Taboos

My Old Testament professor broke one of the great Baptist taboos on Tuesday night, when he made some comments on the Biblical expression “Word of God.” He rightly pointed out that the term in the text cannot be understood to refer to the scriptures as we know them, and have since many of the [...]

Old Testament Studies

My O.T. prof pointed to me to his colleague’s site for some great information that deals with much of the scholarship related to Tanak studies. Here’s the link to the course materials:
http://biblical-studies.ca/REL102/schedule.html
Thanks to Professor Williams for putting his materials online. Thanks also to Barry Bandstra who’s made his introductory text, Reading The Old [...]

Who’s on first?

Okay, now let me get this straight. Pope Benedict XVI makes some comments regarding Islam which make perfect sense in the context of the exclusivity of Christianity. He speaks frankly about much of the violence inherent in Islamic thought, and Muslims are offended. That’s a perfectly reasonable reaction to the Pope’s comments, [...]