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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Revelation 20: the complete fulfillment of the Old Covenant?
If you missed the link in the comments on “Sheol and the Resurrection of the Dead“, be sure to check out Steve’s new article at Undeception about “The Millennium and the Resurrection of the Dead“. It’s a well-stated argument for the full preterist position that the events described in Revelation 20 are the fulfillment of [...]
Posted in eschatology 5 Comments
A clash of worlds
One of the odd things about my professional day job is that our offices are on the 5th floor of a hotel. We rent the space, but it’s rather odd to walk into a hotel everyday and head for the elevators. It’s a business hotel, so there’s almost always one conference or another going on: [...]
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Sheol and the Resurrection of the Dead
Steve at Undeception has an interesting article today about Sheol and the Resurrection of the Dead:
The Hebrew word sheol, ubiquitous in the Old Testament, is translated in various Bible passages and translations as “the grave” or “the pit”, and in others left as is. The Alexandrian Jews who translated the Old Testament into Greek around [...]
Posted in eschatology 11 Comments
Scoundrels, ruffians and certain lewd fellows of the baser sort
Esteban has posted on some singular readings from the KJV translation, including this passage from Acts:
“But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to [...]
Posted in bible translation, choosing a bible 9 Comments
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