In #Acts15, the Jerusalem Council agrees that Gentiles do not need #circumcision. So why, in the very next verses ( #Acts16 :1-3), does Paul have Timothy circumcised, not b/c his mom is a Jew, but b/c his father is a "Greek," typically equated to "Gentile"? 1/2
#PaulineStudies #AcademicBiblical

Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis (DHP145A) | University of Aberdeen The department of Divinity at the University of Aberdeen seeks to appoint an exceptional mid-career or senior scholar to the position of Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis. This is a professo...

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Pesach in Egypt ⇄ Pesach in Jerusalem - TheTorah.com Exodus instructs each family in Egypt to slaughter a paschal lamb and eat it at home, while Deuteronomy commands a community ritual, to take place at the central worship location, i.e., the Jerusalem ...

Pesach in Egypt ⇄ Pesach in Jerusalem. A new article by Dr. Hillel Mali for TheTorah online magazine.

www.thetorah.com/article/pesa...

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#OpenChristian
#AcademicBiblical
#OldTestament
#HebrewBible

Echoing Gospel account, traces of ancient garden found under Church of Holy Sepulchre A landmark excavation, set to conclude soon at Old City of Jerusalem church, has offered unprecedented historical insights. ToI gets a sneak peek

Fascinating insights into the history of first century Jerusalem and the foundations of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre by Prof. Stasolla of the Sapienza University of Rome

www.timesofisrael.com/echoing-gosp...

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#EarlyChristianity
#LateAntiquity
#Archeology
#AncientHistory

Of Jars, Scraps, and Scrolls: How Ancient Books Were Composed - TheTorah.com In biblical times, scraps of writing were stored together in jars, likely based on theme or topic, and these collections were combined and edited into our biblical books. Similarly, Talmudic pericopae...

New article for Torah.com by Dr Monika Amsler

www.thetorah.com/article/of-j...

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#Christianity
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#BiblicalStudies

European antisemitism traces all the way to the Greek & Roman antisemitism concentrated in the New Testament, which contains anti-Jewish polemics that perform mental gymnatics blaming the Jews for Jesus’ death

This was a ticking time bomb.

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#history #christianity