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Context, Context, Context
While teaching lately how to study the Bible (using Kevin Rhodes’s book as a guide for the first sequence of sessions), I covered the basics of biblical context. As I (and Rhodes) see it, there are essentially four broad layers of context for a given text, each with its own sub-elements: The inquisitive Bible student…
Books I Ate (7/24)
I intended to finish two or three more books, but alas! This month is a very short list. Next month won’t be much better, I don’t suppose, as I’ll be at Polishing the Pulpit for half the month. Chesterton, G. K. What’s Wrong with the World. Read by Stewart Crank. 2019 Museum Audiobooks, 2019. Audible…
Books I Ate (6/24)
All right, folks! I can’t believe it’s already that time again: Let us examine my reads of this month. I have been privileged to start the M.A. in Old Testament program at Freed-Hardeman University. I initially intended to start in the fall semester, but Dr. Rick Brumback (who heads the Graduate School of Theology and…
