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Jesus, a Lover of Man?
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus, therefore, saw His…
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Longer biblical and theological essays from Kathmandu Center.
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Revisiting Μακάριος in the Sermon on the Mount
Introduction The Five Discourses of Matthew, the first among them, contain Jesus’ moral-ethical teachings in the Sermon on the Mount (5-7). Luke has the…
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ἐξουσία and δύναμις Inseparable from διακονέω
In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus' ἐξουσία (authority) and δύναμις (power) are inseparable from διακονέω (service). They are closely related to each other. In…
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Milestone in the Biotechnology: Human Genetic Engineering
8th April, 2008 Modern biotechnology has been venturing into the world of the human genome. Researchers are at the forefront of creating complete artificial…
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Who is Christmas Caroling for, and Why?
Updated Version: As Christmas approaches, Christians of all ages—children to the elderly—disregard the biting winter cold to sing and dance in homes and courtyards…
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The Cambridge Three and the Heroes of Text Criticism
An ancient text becomes “corrupted”? What we have today as the Scripture is not the autobiography handed down to us. We have copies of…
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Lightfoot’s Scholarship Outflanked Tübingen University
The Cambridge University slay the theories of Tübingen University's “stone dead” Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860) from Tübingen University was the leading scholar who attempted…
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The Enlightenment and the Birth of New Testament Criticism
In chapter 1, Neil and Wright labored to inform the readership of the New Testament criticism and how got here in the first place…
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Analyzing the Bible Critically in Search of Historical Jesus
In the last two centuries, many bible scholars around the world have spent enormous hours in search of historical Jesus. With the rise of…
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Statutory Directives from Uncle Screwtape
I wrote this letter on behalf of Screwtape to Wormwood for an online class, 'The Literatures of C.S. Lewis,' and later published it on my…
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Three Major Themes in the Gospel of Matthew
In the previous post, I mentioned that the Gospel of Matthew has a special Jewish flavor in its contents and characteristics, since it was…
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Brief Note on The Gospel of Matthew
Historical Background: Author The Gospel of Matthew is ascribed to the Apostle Matthew. He was one of Jesus’ twelve disciples. The early church fathers…
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