I'm still in New Orleans, where, since Wednesday, I've been attending and participating in the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS). The next conference begins tomorrow, the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). Before the...
Leviticus
ZIBBC: Rest of Volume 1 (Pentateuch)
I'm finishing my comments on volume 1 of Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary (ZIBBC). I hope to post once on each of the other four volumes before leaving for the ETS and SBL meetings in mid-November. I was looking for specific items in the treatments...
Discerning the Dead, Part 3
We're at the point now in our intermittent forays into the biblical realm of the dead to flesh out (again, pardon the pun) who's who in the Underworld. I noted at the start that I wanted to start with the term metim to see if that term spoke of the human dead, as...