• I heard you were involved in the NET Bible translation. How would you say it differs from the NASB?

  I am the senior New Testament editor. I like the NASB and used it for many, many years. But its fundamental flaw is that it is too literal. Often the translators would pick the first entry out of BAGD and use that for the word all the way through. Take, for example, polis. NASB translates it "city" all 162 times. Yet polis is either a city or a town. Since Koine Greek had no good work for town, polis covered a multitude of sins. The NET translators considered size, relation to government, whether it was a free or bound city, etc.

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• 6. The Zealots

  The Zealots represented a principle and a policy that the other groups did not share. The Sadducees lived a good life and sought power in high places. The Pharisees believed that it was God's will to live in the world in which God had placed them, to remain pure, and to meet the temptations, the dangers, and the trials.¹ And the Essenes simply fled from the conflict and took refuge in their desert commune. But opposite the Essenes were the Zealots who would confront any opposition directly.

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• 5. The Witness of the Dead Sea Scrolls

  The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the caves around Qumran on the northwest shores of the Dead Sea in 1945.¹ In all there were over 400 manuscripts from eleven caves.

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• The Nicene Creed: Second Month—Day 16

  the Lord, the Giver of Life,

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  Jesus fulfilled the words of the prophet Isaiah:
  “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
  Because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor.
  He has sent Me to proclaim freedom for the captives
  And recovery of sight to the blind,
  To set free those who are downtrodden,
  To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” (Luke 4:18-19)

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• The Nicene Creed: Second Month—Day 15

  And I believe in the Holy Spirit,

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• Selected Promises Of God In Each Book Of The Bible

  This material was used in The Life Promises Bible which was developed by Kenneth Boa.

  It is helpful to review God's many promies with a heart of trust and gratitude.

   

   

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• Prisca in 1 Corinthians 16.19 once again

  A recent article in the Journal of Biblical Literature entitled, “Is There an ‘Anti-Priscan’ Tendency in the Manuscripts? Some Textual Problems with Prisca and Aquila,” by Dominika A. Kurek-Chomycz,¹ has interacted at one point with my short essay on 1 Cor 16.19.² I am flattered that in the pages of JBL, a standard theological journal, this Internet essay would get cited.

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• 4. The Essenes

  Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judean wilderness, the only material available on the Essenes came from the classical historians. Because the community was semi-monastic and separatist, it is not surprising that the information was sometimes vague or incomplete. Furthermore, the philosophical biases of the writers may account for some inconsistencies in our understanding the sect.

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• 3. The Sadducees

  One of the major difficulties in describing the Sadducees is that all that we know about them comes from their opponents. They themselves left no written records of their history, their organization, or their views. They appear on the scene just before the great schism between the Hellenizers and the Hasidim, and they disappear as a group in the great destruction of 70 A.D. But judging from the comments in the New Testament, the Mishnah, and Josephus, they do form a formidable group.

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• The Nicene Creed: Second Month—Day 14

  whose kingdom shall have no end.

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  All Your works will praise you, O Lord,
  And Your saints will bless You.
  They will speak of the glory of Your kingdom
  And talk of Your power,
  So that all people may know of Your mighty acts
  And the glorious majesty of Your kingdom.
  Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
  And Your dominion endures through all generations. (Psalm 145:10-13)

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