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Anon. Enuma Elish: Babylonian Genesis. Recited during the 4th day of the 8-day Akitu Festival (New Year). Essentially a literary homage to Marduk. |
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Hammurabi. Law Code 18th cent. B.C. Babylonian lawcode inscribed on stela. |
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Hittite Treaty between Mursilis (c. 1620-1595) and Duppi-Tessub Of Amurru |
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Beecher, Willis J. The Prophets and the Promise. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1963. Substance of the Stone Lectures at Princeton . Chapter 8 "The Promise Doctrine as Taught in the NT."Chapter 9 "The Promise as Given to the Patriarchs." |
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Bock, Darrell . "Evangelical and the Use of the Old Testament in the New ." Bibliotheca Sacra , 142 (1985) 209-223, 306-319. In a two-part article, Dallas Research Professor of New Testament Studies, Professor of Spiritual Development and Culture discusses the lack of consensus among evangelicals with respect to issues surrounding the N.T. use of the O.T. |
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Kaiser, Walter. "Inner Biblical Exegesis as a Model for Bridging the "Then" and "Now" Gap: Hos. 12:1-6." JETS 28/1 (1985) 33-46. Kaiser does a "case study" of biblical exegesis and the distinction between the meaning of an ancient text and the significance of that single meaning for others in a different time and place. |
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Kitchen, Kenneth. "IThe Patriarchal Age: Myth or History?." BAR 21/2 (1995) 48-57, 88, 90-95. Expert in biblical history and Egyptology compares biblical data with facts on the ground. He concludes that there is "mounting evidence that the basic inherited outline (of patriarchal history) is essentially sound. |
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Krahmalkov, Charles. "Exodus Itinerary Confirmed by Egyptian Evidnece" BAR 20/5 (1994) 54-62, 79. Univ of Mich. prof of ANE languages tackles the question of the historicity of the Numbers 33 itinerary by analyzing Egyptian epigraphic evidence. He concludes that the biblical account is "dramatically validated." |
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Robinson, Haddon. "The Heresy of Application," Leadership Journal, Fall, 1997 With respect to the ministry of preaching, Robinson is one of North America's leading thinkers and practitioners. He is interviewed on how Scripture is used in preaching and warns of the "heresy of application." |
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Schreiner, Thomas . "Preaching & Biblical Theology ," Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, 10,2 (Summer 2006). Former Bethel Seminary professor, presently holds a chair in NT at Southern Seminary where he serves as Assoc. Dean for Scripture & Interpretation. The article focuses on issues related to preaching but is just as applicable to teachers and counsellors committed to proclaiming the whole counsel of God. |
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Strauss, Mark and Peter Vogt. Homosexuality: A Biblical Perspective St. Paul: Bethel University, 2006. Bethel Seminary faculty members Mark Strauss and Peter Vogt, explores what the Bible teaches on the subject of homosexuality. |