Peshitta

Archaeological data can be a valuable aid to interpreting texts, as well as providing independent conclusions of a text’s historical accuracy. Archaeology provides a general background to the events of the Bible, helps us in understanding the translation and many passages directly, and it has given us insight into the religious setting of the Bible. Archaeology provides historical credibility to the events of the Bible. This helps provide analytical scholars more on the context of the Bibles environment or geographical setting. Just glancing at the Bible or reading it does not always show the significance of the situation in which the narrative takes place. Often knowing about the location where something occurred will help us to understand why a statement in the Bible was made. For example, in The Visual Guide to the New Testament by Jonathan L. Reed, we see where he explains how the Pool of Bethesda was discovered by explorers in the nineteenth century (Reed 10-15). This discovery stems from John 5:1-9. By seeing this area in person, archaeologists can give more detail on when the passage could have taken place by examining the artifacts and where it was discovered. We can also note in Steven L. Davies book The New Testament: An Analytical Approach, where he states that the “New Testament period was in 30-120 CE” ( Davies 81), how this statement comes from archaeologists by looking back on the geographical settings of that time and the artifacts that have been uncovered.…

Introduction The Imprecatory Psalms, according to Bullock, are “psalms of anger” and “psalms of wrath” in which the “psalmist prayed that evil would befall their persecutors.” This forum entry reflects on the Imprecatory Psalms in relation to their Old Testament context; what they teach about God and God’s judgement; and how they should be viewed in light of the New Testament. Finally, the author’s conveys his view as to whether the Imprecatory Psalms should be used as a model for prayer.…

There is much love and respect within the church for the book of Psalms. And Tremper Longman III accurately identifies in his Preface that the Psalms are both “familiar” and “foreign” to many people in the church. People in and outside of the church are constantly exposed to the Psalms. It is a common book for devotionals and laments. However, even with people’s daily exposure with the book it has not made the text much clearer in regards to the poetic idioms, expressions, and structures that…

Differences of Nouthetic and Integrative Counseling The field of psychology has been divided many times into many different schools of thought and even in Christian counseling these differences in opinion still come forth. The two sides to Christian counseling are Nouthetic/traditional counseling and Integrative counseling. Nouthetic just focuses on using the New Testament and the Old Testament together to teach people and to try and help them with any issues. Integrative counseling not only…

The author of the article, Reasons to Question the Reliability of Scripture, wrote on the basis of trying to disprove or question the reliability of the New Testament by providing multiple arguments against the idea that the oral history of Luke and the other NT authors could be accurate. While I have an answer for all, I’m going to focus on a few that I believe are the most important to help clear up a basis for historical evidence before ever going into faith or Christianity as a theology. The…

Intro: In this book one can learn many facts and information about the bible they never knew. The book is not about scriptures in specific. It is about back-round information to how people today received God’s word. The reader gets to see just how important the text is and the effort to preserve the word of God. In this book the reader will find out the types of writing materials used for manuscript. The languages used in the text. Whether text was written in print or cursive. Discoveries where…