How does one explain the sparseness of the Qumran targumic corpus?
Did the Early Scribes Understand John 9:3 Correctly?
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The punctuation found in later manuscripts was added by scribes, and is not original to the New Testament.
More on the Absence of an Aramaic Bible at Qumran: A Response to Jack Poirier’s “The Qumran Targum of Job as a Window into Second Temple Judaism: A Response to Randall Buth”
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I appreciate this opportunity to return to some issues concerning the Targum of Job that I raised in Where Is the Aramaic Bible at Qumran? Scripture Use in the Land of Israel and to evaluate Jack Poirier’s response entitled, The Qumran Targum of Job as a Window into Second Temple Judaism: A Response to Randall Buth.
Casting Down Modern Imaginations
Some scholars have plausibly argued that the Enlightenment’s preoccupation with the problem of knowing was a direct product of the Lutheran and Reformed “theologies of the Word” that emerged from the Reformation…
Were the Pharisees “Legalistic”?
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If we define legalism as “works righteousness,” then we cannot apply it to the Pharisees, because the Pharisaic understanding of piety was not based upon this concept.
666: One Number or Three?
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Any objective reading of Revelation can hardly fail to see the importance of this number within the author’s web of historical signifiers.
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