That's the title of a short piece by Larry Hurtado on his blog today. It's certainly worth a read to catch his distinction.
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Want to Study How the Church Fathers Cited the Bible?
Then I highly recommend this post for its description of an important online resource for just this purpose. It's excellent. Editor's note: resource mentioned can be found here: Home • BiblIndex
New Gospel of Judas Fragments
You can read the short post on the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog here. I recommend clicking through to the links, especially to April DeConick's blog. April, as readers may recall, is strongly opposed (for very coherent reasons) to the notion that the Gospel of...
Interesting Article on Phoebe as a Deacon
I hope to post again on baptism this weekend, but in the meantime, here is an interesting (short) article on the Greek descriptions of Phoebe. I've posted on the "women in ministry" issue a bit before, so I figured some of you might be interested in this. Previous...
New Article on NT Canon
Check out this post over on Evangelical Textual Criticism. The post describes an article in the most recent JETS issue on the NT canon problem. Editor's note: link's content reproduced below,From Evangelical Textual Criticism: Chuck Hill in JETS, originally posted May...
Constantine and the Canon: The Law of Unintended Consequences
I had an interesting discussion a few days ago at work. I've been trying to get one of my co-workers (Vince Setterholm) to guest blog for me on the canon matter since he's done a lot of thinking about that. I think he'll end up contributing. In the meantime, one...
Clarification from John Hobbins on Canonicity
John is apparently following my re-posting (and that of Ros Clarke) of his canonicity discussions, and posted a clarification/answer to my question this morning on his own blog. He says: My wording, "establishing a direction of thought or action," was not meant to set...
How Did the Early Church Fathers Cite Scripture?
Is this cool or what? Click here for a free searchable database of "Biblical Quotations and Allusions in Early Christian Literature." The project is now in financial limbo, but as it is, you can still search the corpus for its database of 400,000 biblical references....
The Lord’s Supper and 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 (Post 4 of 4)
Well, finally carved out the time to get this up. For my money, this passage has been fundamentally misunderstood (or maybe under-read), which has led to a lot of misunderstanding about the Lord's Supper. I think you'll be surprised at what it says. Please note the...