Foster's Theological Reflections

This work is by Ronald Dean Peters, who has since published his work. It constitutes some of the most recent work done on the Greek article,...

This entry is designed to post the outlines of what Henry Barclay Swete writes ( The Holy Spirit in the New Testament ) concerning the anart...

See Section 260 of BDF here: https://nicksdata.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/bdf-a-greek-grammar-of-the-new-testament-and-other-early-christia...

One thing that strikes me about Rabshakeh (2 Kings 18:26-35) is that he uses tactics similar to Job's three comforters (Job 3). He takes...

Ex 3:15: "And God saith again unto Moses, 'Thus dost thou say unto the sons of Israel, Jehovah, God of your fathers, God of Abraham...

On the subject of how βουλὴ (boule) should be translated in Acts 2:23; 4:28, please keep in mind that I don't believe "plan" i...

Written 4/8/2009 and slightly edited 5/24/16. I'm not faulting the house church model, so much as I'm stating that it appears to h...

Thomas Aquinas considers the soul to be subsistent, but not in the Cartesian sense. Kevin Corcoran quotes Summa Contra Gentiles II.69 to de...

The basic issue in Gal. 2:15-16 is whether ἐὰν μὴ is adversative ('but') or exceptive ('except' or 'but only'). The...

Regarding Jn. 5:18, Christ was not making himself equal to God by claiming the Divine One as his Father. Contrariwise, the context shows tha...

"I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for th...

[Barnabas] "and you raise the question, on what is supposedly, the ignorance of Jesus on certain things. Let's first of all unders...

Interlocutor : "I gathered my 'data' on the matter from a wide range of sources, over many years, here are a few; New Bible D...

In Heb. 1:4, it's possible that the "name" (ONOMA) refers to the increased privileges of the resurrected and elevated Messiah....

What exactly constituted blasphemy in the first century has been a cause of much debate among NT scholars. One of the most thorough and he...

See http://www.hebrew-streams.org/works/qumran/isaiah-53-qumran.pdf

This quote falls within the fair use law, and I by no means endorse all of what he writes, but I find the quote informative: εἴτε θρόνοι ε...

Both faith and reason are important: they are not per force antithetical, but might be deemed complementary. When faith is combined with re...