Category Archives: history

When Pharaoh was a woman…

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: April 20, 2009
The April issue of National Geographic has an interesting article on Hatshepsut, daughter of Thutmose I (ruler, 1504-1492 BC), and married to her step-brother, Thutmose II (ruler, 1492-1479 BC). When Thutmose II died,  his son (Thutmose III, by another wife) was still young and Hatshepsut acted as regent and then co-ruler of Egypt from 1479-1458 [...]
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Linus’ questions

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: December 22, 2008
Continuing the discussion of Matthew’s appropriation of OT scripture as prophecies fulfilled in Jesus Christ, we turn to these exegetical questions found in yesterday comic section of the newspaper. The passage in question come from Matthew 2.16-18 (REB): When Herod realized that the astrologers had tricked him he flew into a rage, and gave orders for [...]
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Is Matthew the author of Q?

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: December 21, 2008
In the introduction to his commentary on the gospel of Matthew, William Barclay quotes an early church historian named Papias: Matthew collected the sayings of Jesus in the Hebrew tongue. The hypothesis would be then that the narrative portions of Matthew’s gospel were edited from Mark’s account and merged with the above mentioned “sayings of Jesus” collected [...]
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Gundry and Matthew’s midrash

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: December 21, 2008
Thanks to my blessed wife, we started up a tradition this past year that I grew up with, that being a subscription to National Geographic magazine. I remember stacks of yellow dating back to the ’70s in our house in Alaska, so the small pile here is a welcome addition. The December issue has an article [...]
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The NEB: awakening deafened and dulled ears

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 11, 2008
Note: for much of this post, I am greatly summarizing the material previously published by Geoffrey Hunt (About the New English Bible) and Roger Coleman (New Light and Truth: The Making of the Revised English Bible), which I’ve had the pleasure of reading in their entirety and recommend to any with a passing interest in [...]
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ANE discussion of Genesis 1 continues

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: May 5, 2008
In case you missed the updates I appended to the original post on a functional ANE perspective of Genesis 1, John Hobbins wrote a rebuttal to Dr. Walton’s position that “Genesis 1 is concerned only with the assignment of functions to things” and is “not concerned with the formational history of the things of which [...]
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Article: “Not One Stone Left Upon Another”

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: April 5, 2008
HT: Kim Riddlebarger Paul L. Maier has written an article for ChristianityToday.com on the historical events and fallout of AD 70: Not One Stone Left Upon Another The catastrophic fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 forever changed the face of Judaism-and the fate of Christians in the Holy Land. Jesus predicted it 37 years before it happened. Herod Agrippa [...]
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