Foster's Theological Reflections

Πείθεσθε τοῖς ἡγουμένοις ὑμῶν καὶ ὑπείκετε, αὐτοὶ γὰρ ἀγρυπνοῦσιν ὑπὲρ τῶν ψυχῶν ὑμῶν ὡς λόγον ἀποδώσοντες, ἵνα μετὰ χαρᾶς τοῦτο ποιῶσιν κα...

Just to let you know what has my academic attention this semester: 1) World religions-I'm teaching 3 sections of this course 2) Logic...

Some here might enjoy reading Louis H. Feldman's article in JBL 96/3(1977): 371-382 entitled "Hengel's Judaism and Hellenism in...

"And he went up from there to Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked h...

Rudolf Bultmann's notion of the Gnostic Redeemer-myth has certainly not gone unchallenged. In fact, some scholars have outright taken it...

"and all those who live on the earth will worship the beast, everyone whose name has not been written since the foundation of the world...

"It is doubtful in what sense this word [DIABOLOS] should be taken, Whether we should render it DIABOLIKOS (= TOU DIABOLOU hUPOURGOS), ...

Here's something I wrote almost 15 years ago. I'm open to correction on what I stated then: When I was first introduced (formally)...

Here are some terms that might be helpful to know. I have taken these thirteen words and their respective definitions from The Divine Attrib...

Text: Εἰσερχόμεθα γὰρ εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσιν οἱ πιστεύσαντες, καθὼς εἴρηκεν Ὡς ὤμοσα ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου Εἰ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσίν μου, καί...

Wallace ( GGBB , page 227) refers to the generic article as the "categorical article" which "distinguishes one class from ano...

One Catholic commentator contends that EKKLHSIA (ecclesia)in Mt 18:17 has reference to the local Christian community (A.T. Robertson explain...

Regarding the connection between APOSTASIA and ANQRWPOS THS ANOMIAS, TDNT makes these comments: "In 2 Th. 2:3 APOSTASIA is used in th...

And the Apostle Paul says in the Epistle to the Hebrews: "At the end of the days He spoke to us in His Son, whom He made the heir of al...

http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6045-fear-of-god http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0006_0_06302.html ...

Jewett argues that the rendering "bear witness to" for Rom 8:16 "is inadmissible because this verb [συμμαρτυρέω] is in fact t...

"In the case of the New Testament Erasmus shocked contemporaries by omitting the famous proof text for the Trinity in 1 John 5:7 where ...

I probably wrote this piece over a decade ago. At that time, the Witnesses' understanding of the "faithful and discreet slave"...

From a conversation dated 1/10/2000: MY ORIGINAL QUESTION: In Zech. 1:12, 13, God is said to address His angel with "comforting word...

I had a dialogue with one Catholic gentleman three years ago. He tried to argue that the writer of Genesis did not clarify the identity of J...