Category: Bible
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An Examination of Paul’s Teaching on the LORD’s Supper in I Corinthians 11:17-34
It occurred to me that over the years of worshipping in various denominations, I have been exposed to the LORD’s Supper being celebrated to differing degrees of significance. But for the most part, as I remember, there were few, if any, strictures placed on those taking Communion, perhaps the most common restriction being, to be…
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Theoretical Reconstruction of the Derivation of the Conceptual Word ‘Church’
This fascinating study on the derivation of the word ‘church’ and its adoption into most translations of the Bible as the proper translation for the Greek εκκλησια (transliterated as ekklesia, Greek-based; or ecclesia, Latin-based) was spurred by a discussion in a book my wife and I read recently. The author claimed that in Hebrew, the…
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Book Review: William Tyndale – A Biography
Whether in his bibliography or somewhere in the text of his biography of Tyndale, “God’s Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible – A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal,” Brian Moynahan refers to David Daniell’s tome, which carries the eponym of the title of this book review. Daniell, in addition…
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Book Review: The Bible in Translation – Ancient and English Versions by Bruce Metzger
Bruce Manning Metzger (1914-2007) was for many years a professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. According to the brief biographical sketch on the back cover of the volume under review, he was an expert in ancient biblical manuscripts and as such was a member of three major Bible translation projects…
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Book Review of “God’s Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible – A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal”
To those with some knowledge of the tension that existed within western Christendom in the late Middle Ages, the title of Brian Moynahan’s book tells the story in a nutshell. There is the protagonist, William Tyndale, the man of languages, whose love for God and His Word led him to translate the New Testament and…
The Dragon is Slain 