This is Part 2 of a guest series by Dr. Ronn Johnson. What is the Bible’s Big Story? Part 2 Dr. Ronn Johnson In my opening post I recommended that locating the Big Story of the Bible can be difficult, and that simply being more fluent in the Bible does not solve the...
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What is the Bible’s Big Story? Part 1
A guest post by Dr. Ronn Johnson I recently heard that we see more images or pictures in one day (whether on our phone, on the TV, on a billboard, etc.) than a pre-Renaissance person would have seen over the course of their entire lifetime. Apparently our brains have...
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 101: Jesus, the Exile, and the Tribulation
Mike does some eschatology (and next week, too). Kind of like a Bigfoot sighting. Get it while supplies last! In this provocative episode of the Naked Bible Podcast, Dr. Michael Heiser reframes the popular evangelical understanding of the “tribulation” by exploring...
Jesus as a Figure in History: Book Review
In today's RBL (Review of Biblical Literature) email I found a review on this worthwhile title by Mark Allan Powell: Jesus as a Figure in History, Second Edition: How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee I have the older edition of this work and it's quite good...
Paul, Israel, and the “Israel of God”
Anyone who has read my series on why the *obsession* with eschatology is a waste of time will recall that one of the big issues is what "Israel" means in the epistles -- and especially Paul's works. This issue is central to any view of eschatology. One perspective...