Monthly Archives: August 2007

A new book from Kim Riddlebarger in the works

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 24, 2007
I recently found Kim Riddlebarger’s website, The Riddleblog, and read that he is working on a new book: “That being said, I am now hard at work on an expanded eschatology text which will deal with a broader range of eschatological issues, including preterism and postmillennialism. We do need a Reformed / covenantal / amillennial [...]
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Nuance in the art of fine Bible publishing

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 20, 2007
The thumbnails below are of two “ultrathin” NASB editions from Foundation Publications. Regular readers will know that I treasure my NASB Side-Column Reference Wide Margin edition from Foundation; however, one of these is sorely tempting as well. The sample page on the left is Foundation’s NASB Ultrathin Reference Bible. This Bible is one of the only [...]
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John, the Chronicler and the number of the Beast

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 16, 2007
Most everyone, regardless of their eschatological persuasion, should be familiar with this passage: “This calls for wisdom. Let those who have insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.” Revelation 13:18 (TNIV) Now, there have been innumerable guesses made as to the identity of the beast [...]
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Extreme TNIV texts

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 15, 2007
A recent resurgence in commentary about the Books of the Bible release of the TNIV has floated some additional visitors to a post I had made back in June about that edition’s intriguing case for removing all of the critical apparatus from Biblical text and forcing us to focus on the words of the Word. This [...]
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Isaiah 53:6 … a snapshot in gender accuracy

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 14, 2007
I’ve been discussing some gender accuracy and Bible translation issues with Gary Zimmerli and, as part of our exchange, he recently sent me a note that included this quote from Isaiah 53:6 (with regards to an image I was using in my blog header): We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to [...]
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