We now come to Part 8 in my series on how the New Testament writers use the Old Testament. In my last post, I looked at the opening verses of the Gospel of Mark...
Here in my next post in my series on the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament, I’m going to focus on the prologue of Mark, particularly his account of John ...
We now come to the final example of the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament that is found in Matthew’s infancy narrative. Up to this point, we’ve looked at...
As we make our way into Part 5 of my ongoing series on how the New Testament uses the Old Testament, we now come to a couple of Old Testament quotations in the ...
It has been over a month since my last post in my series regarding the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament. At that time, I looked at the Suffering Servant...
A few weeks ago, I got into a somewhat heated discussion on Twitter over the issue of the dating of the birth of Jesus. In all honesty, although I knew about th...
In my previous post, I began to argue that the Suffering Servant in of Isaiah 53, when read within the context of the larger section of Isaiah 40-55, is clearly...
Perhaps one of the most well-known, and I would argue most misunderstood, Old Testament prophecy quoted in the gospels is Isaiah 53, or more properly Isaiah 52:...
Perhaps one of the most fascinating things I’ve learned about in my years of Biblical Studies is the issue of the New Testament’s use of Old Testament prophecie...
NOTE: Ten years ago I did this book analysis on “The God Delusion” on my old blog. Then four years ago I revised it and put it up on this blog, resu...