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What Did Jesus Sacrifice?
In Andrew Lloyd Webber’s lots-of-fun Jesus Christ Superstar, the crowd (in the guise of journalists at Jesus’s arrest) sing “Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, who are you what have you sacrificed?” It is part of a certain subset of Christianity to … Continue reading
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Synoptic Gospels
The first three gospels in our NT are called the ‘synoptic’ gospels. They share a lot of material, and it seems very clear they were written with a great deal of mutual influence. Unpicking the particular pattern of influence is … Continue reading
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Texts of the Greek New Testament
In a previous post I discussed the greek word translated “daily” in the Lord’s prayer. In the comments I got asked about the categories that we use to talk about the greek text. I promised to post more on that, … Continue reading
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Give us this day our ………. bread. — Matt 6:11
Fill in the gap. The Lord’s Prayer is probably the most famous passage from the whole bible. Certainly in the UK where many folks grew up saying it every day in school. But the funny thing is we don’t really … Continue reading
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Ananias and Sapphira — Acts 5:1-11
Acts 5:1-6 has a famous story of the deceit of Ananias and his wife Sapphira: But a man named Ananias, and Sapphira his wife, sold their property. But they kept back part of the price (his wife having full knowledge … Continue reading
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Peter: Feed My Sheep, A Group Bible Study — John 21:15-17
I’d like to try something new. I’m not sure if I’ve got nearly enough commenters on this blog, or if enough of them are former or current Christians. But hopefully we can get started. I want to think about the … Continue reading
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Jesus as a Boy? — John 2:1-11
I’ve been doing a little bit of study on infancy gospels recently. They are early Christian writings about the life of Jesus before his public ministry. Works such as the Protoevangelium of James and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, both … Continue reading
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What is Early Church History?
An article at the end of the Jewish Study Bible got me thinking. It made a nice distinction that I think very well summarises the challenge of doing early church history: The difficulty is distinguishing the religion that generated the … Continue reading
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The Birth Narratives and Dating
There are two stories about Jesus’s birth in the NT. One at the start of Matthew, the other at the start of Luke. They are very different in many regards. I wrote more about these in other places at Christmas, … Continue reading
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Factions in the Corinthian Church — 1 Cor 1:11-12
Yesterday my eye was drawn to something intriguing at the start of 1 Corinthians. This is a letter written by the apostle Paul to a church he founded in Corinth which has grown and matured to some extent, but is … Continue reading
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