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Hebrews

Hebrews and the Temple’s destruction

January 27, 2010

Ken Schenk posts a summary handout on the situation of Hebrews. The letter is, of course, his area of greatest expertise, so I raise this question with some diffidence. However, if I understand him rightly, he dates the letter not that long after the destruction of the temple.
Hebrews is, of course, quite hard to situate [...]

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Rescuing priesthood from Witherington’s “perfectly clear” NT

October 26, 2009

Ben Witherington has a post up today on Why arguments against women in ministry aren’t biblical. I shall assume that in his discussions of the arguments offered by evangelicals on the basis of specific texts he knows what he is talking about. I find them rather bizarre but I imagine he must have those arguments [...]

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