Dates are in the form of month, day, and Noah’s year, as given in the text. Hence, 2/10/600 […]
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Location Inhabitants 1. Light and dark 4. Lights of day and night 2. Sea and sky 5. Fish […]
Primeval History (1:1–11:26) Introduction General heading Specific heading Section introduced 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens […]
The Hebrew calendar was composed of 12 lunar months, each of which began when the thin crescent moon […]
The following dates (all b.c.) are close approximations based on correlating dates between the Bible and other ancient Near […]
(See Overview of the Bible, for a fuller explanation of the “History of Salvation.” The notes in this feature […]
Almost every book in the NT has something to say about false beliefs and those who advocate them. […]
The Bible and Contemporary Judaism Early History (c. 2100 b.c.–586 b.c.) Beginning with Abraham, the founding “rock” of the Jewish […]
Roman Catholicism Roman Catholicism and Protestantism have many beliefs in common, both adhering to the truths expressed in […]
As C. S. Lewis once observed, “one of the rewards of reading the Old Testament regularly” is that […]
The term Septuagint is commonly used today to refer to the Greek translation of the Jewish Scriptures, the books that […]
Hebrew and Aramaic, and How They Work Introduction The main language of the OT is Classical Hebrew, but […]
Archaeology and the Reliability of the Old Testament Definition of Archaeology Archaeology may be defined as the systematic study […]
The Reliability of the Old Testament Manuscripts Introduction At the beginning of the twentieth century, textual criticism of […]
The Canon of the Old Testament The word “canon” (Gk. for “a rule”) is applied to the Bible […]
Reading the Bible Theologically To read the Bible “theologically” means to read the Bible “with a focus on […]
Interpreting the Bible: An Introduction The Bible contains 66 books, written in three languages over 1,500 years by […]
Biblical Ethics: An Introduction From the beginning of the Bible to the end, God gives people specific instructions […]
True Theology: Knowing and Loving God The study of theology is considered by many to be dry, boring, […]
A troubled jailer in the first century once asked two Christian leaders, “what must I do to be […]
Introduction and Timeline Knowing how to read the Epistles is very important, since they make up 21 of […]
The Gospels and Acts were designed to be read as full accounts, each in their own right, even […]
Scholars continue to debate the year and date of Jesus’ crucifixion. Several pieces of evidence, both inside and […]
New Testament theology as a discipline is a branch of what scholars call “biblical theology.” Systematic theology and […]
When Jesus began to proclaim the gospel, the Sadducees, Essenes, and Pharisees were also laying claim to Israel’s […]
The first-century Roman world of the NT lay culturally at the intersection of Hellenism (Greek language and culture) […]
Most of the writers of the NT grew up in the world of “Second Temple Judaism,” the time […]
Introduction Mesopotamian texts indicate that long before Israel entered Canaan, other countries had prophets. These texts from Israel’s […]
Poetry is pervasive in the Hebrew Bible—the only books in the OT without any poetry are Leviticus, Ruth, […]