BIBLICAL STUDIES

Ancient Jewish Literature Covenant PeopleEarly ChristendomGospels Criticism-1Gospels Criticism-2Jehovah and His ChroniclerNew Testament CanonPalestine(The) Am haAretz The Council at Jamnia The Song of Deborah Torah A Rallying Point Witnesses to the Life of Jesus Christ

Introduction   Much of our understanding of the events, persons, and institutions found in the New Testament is to a large degree a function of our understanding of the intertestamental period (fourth-century BC–first-century AD), particularly the literature within Judaism that survived that period reveals to us insights that broaden our understanding of the aforementioned categories

I. Introduction This summary-study is interested in aspects of Judaism that affected either the earthly ministry of our Savior, or the planting and spread of the Church that bears His name. Toward that end both Palestinian and Hellenistic (Diaspora) Judaism are discussed. The “covenant people” referred to throughout are one and the same, for they

I. Introduction This study was motivated by a lecture series on New Testament history given by Dr. Lloyd Melton. Earliest Christianity can be divided into two significant periods:   (1) That period from the resurrection and ascension of our Savior until the death of Paul the Apostle (c. AD 33/4-65),  (2) That period from the

I. IntroductionPlease see figure one for a pictorial summary of the historical periods this study overlaps. Gospels criticism is the same largely cerebral estimation of Scripture as is biblical criticism per se (“Biblical Criticism”), except that the subject is the New Testament; specifically, the subject is the gospels ( Mat 1:1ff, Mar 1:1ff, Luk 1:1ff,

  I. Introduction The reader may wish to peruse our “Gospels Criticism (Part One)” as a preparatory introduction to this study. Our purpose here is to prayerfully render a critical analysis of Professor Rudolf Bultmann’s New Testament & Mythology (Bultmann|Ogden; Bultmann|bio). We are motivated to do this analysis because contemporary sentiment toward the New Testament

I. Introduction This study is interested in comparing the content of first and second Samuel and first and second Kings with the content of first and second Chronicles. Points of particular interest are: To what material in Samuel/Kings does the author of Chronicles add. What material does he omit. What material is paralleled. Our goal,

I. Introduction “Canon is a word that originates from a Semitic root that means ‘reed’ and survives in English also as the word ‘cane’ [the English is cognate with the Latin canon= “rule” and the Greek kanon= “measuring rod” or “rule”]. It originally referred to a straight reed or stalk that served as a measuring

I. Introduction   Our God in the person of our Savior Jesus Christ entered human history in a region of the world known as the Holy Land, or Palestine. Modern Palestine is approximately coincident with modern Israel and parts of Jordan. It is expedient for the believer to study the character of this region in

Contents Introduction II. (The) Am haAretz III. Concluding Comments Illustrations and Tables Figure 1 The Halakah Hedge. Figure 2. Burdening (The) Am haAretz  Table 1. Socio-political-religious Groups, Parties, and Sects in or Influential to Judaism Works Cited and References Notes ntroduction   To discuss the Am haAretz[1] of first-century Palestine, the period that corresponds to our