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  • Spectrums of Scripture: Echoes

    This post is part of an ongoing series formulating a methodology for tracking and understanding the variety of ways in which early Christians received and utilized Scripture. Echoes are made up of a single significant term, enough to make an inquisitive reader or hearer think about another source, but without the enough evidence to confirm…

  • Recommended Reading: April 8

    If you read one article this week, engage Why I Share Troubling Articles (And You Should Too) by AJ Maynard. For those of you with additional reading time this weekend, check out the following selections, gathered from around the blogging world. Think I missed sharing something important? Let me know in the comments section below.

  • Spectrums of Scripture: Quotations and Allusions

    This post is part of an ongoing series formulating a methodology for tracking and understanding the variety of ways in which early Christians received and utilized Scripture. Quotations involve four or more significant terms.[1] Significant terms are distinguished by their uniqueness to a text,[2] as in the case of 1 Clement 25:2’s mention of the…

  • Ep26: Which Bible Should Christians Read?

    In this episode of the Church Debates series, we look at the history of the Bible, textual criticism, and Bible translation as we think about the question, which Bible should Christians read?

  • Spectrums of Scripture: Verbal Correspondence

    This post is part of an ongoing series formulating a methodology for tracking and understanding the variety of ways in which early Christians received and utilized Scripture. The verbal correspondence spectrum tracks the levels of verbal similarity between two texts.[1] Prerequisite for discussion of this spectrum is definitional clarity.[2] Although numerous scholars have offered numerous…

  • Spectrums of Scripture: Introducing a Spectral Approach

    This post is part of an ongoing series formulating a methodology for tracking and understanding the variety of ways in which early Christians received and utilized Scripture. In addressing the questions of how to determine when one text is received by another text and in what ways texts are received in other texts, scholarship has…

  • Recommended Reading: April 1

    If you read one article this week, engage Avoid the Weird: Why Conservatives Should Stay as Mainstream as Possible by John Mark Reynolds. For those of you with additional reading time this April Fool’s day, check out the following selections, gathered from around the blogging world. Think I missed sharing something important? Let me know…

  • Spectrums of Scripture: Historical-Critical Criteria (Part IV)

    This post is part of an ongoing series formulating a methodology for tracking and understanding the variety of ways in which early Christians received and utilized Scripture. Memory: The scarcity and bulkiness of texts in the ancient world are often taken to suggest that many texts were accessed via memory.[1] When considering instances of potential…

  • Ep25: What Are the Fundamentals of the Faith?

    In this episode of the Church Debates series, we look at the Modernist Fundamentalist Controversy of 19th and 20th century American Christianity.

  • Spectrums of Scripture: Historical-Critical Criteria (Part III)

    This post is part of an ongoing series formulating a methodology for tracking and understanding the variety of ways in which early Christians received and utilized Scripture. Prior Attribution: The principle of prior attribution consults previous scholarship to see if anyone has previously recognized the textual relationship in question.[1] The more previous readers have found…