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2023-11-04T17:05:46-04:00

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The Lemon Tree– On The Israeli Palestinian Problem

Last updated on: November 4, 2023 at 5:05 pm By Ben Witherington

I will be honest with you, I’ve never read a book which was both so heart-wrenching, and also at the same time heart-warming as this one, the story of two families, one Palestinian, one Israeli who at different times lived in the same house in the late 20th century, and by something of a miracle, became friends, particularly the eldest son Bashir Khairi and the daughter Dalia Eshkenazi, from a Bulgarian Jewish family who immigrated to the Holy Land in... Read more

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2023-10-31T21:21:07-04:00

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After the Lamb’s Book of Life was Turned into Password Protected Computer Files

Last updated on: October 31, 2023 at 9:21 pm By Ben Witherington

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2023-10-27T10:39:08-04:00

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Gun Control— It’s time

Last updated on: October 27, 2023 at 10:39 am By Ben Witherington

Below you will find a reasonable essay by E.R. Coates, a Jefferson scholar, who has a website analyzing among other things the Second Amendment and what it was intended and not intended to permit and accomplish. Since we now live in an age of mass murder, and private citizens with ready access to weapons only the police or military should have, its time for Congress to actually do something about military gun control, as other democracies like Australia have done. ... Read more

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2023-10-31T21:38:46-04:00

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A Podcast on Sola Scriptura

Last updated on: October 31, 2023 at 9:38 pm By Ben Witherington

https://podcasts.apple.coms/podcast/the-stone-chapel-podcasts/id1537425950?i=100063326898/u0 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-stone-chapel-podcasts/id1537425950?i=1000633268980 Read more

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2023-10-26T06:14:39-04:00

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An Unbearable Situation in N.C.

Last updated on: October 26, 2023 at 6:14 am By Ben Witherington

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2023-10-21T09:25:59-04:00

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The Unending Legacy of Violence and Blood Vengeance

Last updated on: October 21, 2023 at 9:25 am By Ben Witherington

William Butler Yeats, one of the great Irish poets at the turn of the 20th century once wrote a poem entitled ‘The Second Coming’. which begins as follows….. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate... Read more

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What's a Christian to Think?

2023-10-19T12:19:30-04:00

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The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity– Part Six

Last updated on: October 19, 2023 at 12:19 pm By Ben Witherington

Q. What sort of audience are you hoping these essays will reach? A. These are research essays that will attract attention from researchers in particular — Masters students through to established scholars. But the interested life-long learner can also delve in with profit. Q. In view of the fact that Cambridge had already, twice over, produced the Cambridge History of the Bible, how does this volume help us fill in the gaps that are evident in those volumes?... Read more

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2023-10-19T12:15:53-04:00

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The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity– Part Five

Last updated on: October 19, 2023 at 12:15 pm By Ben Witherington

Q. In reading through and editing all these essays, did the idea emerge of something called ‘mainstream’ or ‘orthodox’ Christianity as opposed to the heterodoxy of the many diverse variants—Gnostic and otherwise? A. David Wilhite addresses this question directly in his opening essay, and there are others that deal with particular aspects of the issue along the way — such as the essays on Marcionism and gnosticising forms of Christianity. In my view, the so-called “Christianities” of the pre-Constantinian... Read more

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2023-10-19T12:13:45-04:00

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The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity– Part Four

Last updated on: October 19, 2023 at 12:13 pm By Ben Witherington

Q. Why just the period up to Constantine? Why not include the transition period when Christianity was a licit or legal religion from the beginning of the early 4th century up to and including Julian the Apostate who tried to turn back time and rejuvenate pagan religion? A. We use Constantine as a mile-marker rather than as a boundary, and allowed contributors to negotiate that mile-marker as they deemed most appropriate to their subject matter. In some aspects, the... Read more

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2023-10-19T12:11:22-04:00

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The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity– Part Three

Last updated on: October 19, 2023 at 12:11 pm By Ben Witherington

Q. How long was this project in gestation? Having done this sort of editing for Cambridge commentaries I know that the more essays involved, the harder it becomes to get all the essay writers to meet the deadlines. A. We started moving forward with real intent in the Spring of 2017 — when we reached out to a number of scholars, giving them the vision for the volume and proposing that they join the project by writing a specific... Read more

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