Tag: translation
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Review of Exegetical Journeys in Biblical Greek: 90 days of Guided Reading by Benjamin L. Merkle
This review was originally published in the April 2025 edition of The Africanus Journal Congratulations! You completed coursework in Biblical Greek. Now what? Seminary professors often use the old adage, “If you don’t use it, you’ll lose it” in reference to language studies. Once course requirements are completed, it can be difficult for students to…
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Hard Teaching – 1 Timothy 2
Part 6 of My Gender Role Journey How can we understand hard passages in the Bible? I mentioned previously that I was taught that egalitarians didn’t believe in the authority of the Bible, and they just threw out the verses that didn’t align with their viewpoint. As I started hearing from actual egalitarians, I…
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Your Interpretation of the Bible is not Inerrant
Part 4 of My Gender Role Journey Another topic in Theology 1 that impacted my understanding of gender roles was the Doctrine of Scripture. I dove into 350 pages of reading and hours of lectures covering the diverse theories of how God revealed himself in the world and what scripture is. I had always heard…
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Why Do Complementarians Ignore Phoebe?
Part 2 of My Gender Role Journey For my first seminary class, I chose “Exploring the New Testament.” The course incorporated the historical context of the New Testament world and the intertestamental period. I learned about the origins of Hanukkah, the creation of the Septuagint, and how the rise and fall of four kingdoms fulfilled…
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Ἀδελφοί
I had always been one of those eager students in women’s Bible study who flipped open a concordance after class to see the original words and how they were used in other verses. Unlike some, I enjoyed when preachers shared insights about Greek or Hebrew words. It seemed like they held the key to unlocking…
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