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Biblical scholar Thomas L. Thompson notes that the methods of " biblical archaeology " have also become outmoded: " and Albright's historical interpretation can make no claim to be objective, proceeding as it does from a methodology which distorts its data by selectivity which is hardly representative, which ignores the enormous lack of data for the history of the early second millennium, and which wilfully establishes hypotheses on the basis of unexamined biblical texts, to be proven by such ( for this period ) meaningless mathematical criteria as the ' balance of probability ' ..."
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Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.
The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.
Biblical scholar Ehud Ben Zvi reminds readers of the socio-historical context in which Hosea was composed.
Biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan describes the importance of understanding the covenant in relation to interpreting Hosea.
Lobegott Friedrich Constantin ( von ) Tischendorf ( January 18, 1815 – December 7, 1874 ) was a noted German Biblical scholar.
Following the lead of Yale scholar John Boswell, it has been argued that a number of Early Christians entered into homosexual relationships, and that certain Biblical figures had homosexual relationships, despite Biblical injunctions against sexual relationships between members of the same sex.
Around 190 AD under the leadership of the scholar Pantanaeus, the school of Alexandria became an important institution of religious learning, where students were taught by scholars such as Athenagoras, Clement, Didymus, and the native Egyptian Origen, who was considered the father of theology and who was also active in the field of commentary and comparative Biblical studies.
Together with Pamphilus, he was a scholar of the Biblical canon.
Biblical scholar John Elliott notes that the author explicitly urges the addressees to respect authority ( 2: 13 ) and even honor the emperor ( 2: 17 ), strongly suggesting that they were unlikely to be suffering from official Roman persecution.
Biblical scholar Paul Achtemeier believes that persecution of Christians by Domitian would have been in character, but points out that there is no evidence of official policy targeted specifically at Christians.
Biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan differentiates between Josephus's account of John and Jesus like this: " John had a monopoly, but Jesus had a franchise.
David M. Scholer, a Biblical scholar at Fuller Theological Seminary, stated that the verse Gal 3: 28 is " the fundamental Pauline theological basis for the inclusion of women and men as equal and mutual partners in all of the ministries of the church.
Biblical scholar F. F. Bruce has said " the evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning ... It is a curious fact that historians have often been much readier to trust the New Testament records than have many theologians.
Biblical scholar Bruce M. Metzger notes that in one account of the Osirian cycle he dies on the 17th of the month of Athyr ( approximating to a month between October 28 and November 26 in modern calendars ), is revivified on the 19th and compares this to Christ rising on the " third day " but he thinks " resurrection " is a questionable description.
* December 7 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German Biblical scholar ( b. 1815 )
* May 24 – William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar ( d. 1971 )
* February 15 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German Biblical scholar ( d. 1874 )
* April 28 – Ezra Abbot, American Biblical scholar ( d. 1884 )
** William Whittingham, English Biblical scholar and religious reformer ( b. 1524 )
Biblical scholar Thomas Kelly Cheyne suggested that it might be a derogatory corruption of Ba ‘ al Zəbûl, " Lord of the High Place " ( i. e., Heaven ) or " High Lord ".
From these figures for the size of a Biblical ell, that of the basic unit — the fingerbreadth ( Etzba ) — can be calculated to be either 22 or 21 mm ; Jewish rabbinical sources approximate at either 20 mm, or according to Talmudic scholar Chazon Ish, 25 mm.
Biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan discusses this as an inaccuracy regarding Mordecai's age.
The Passover Plot ( ISBN 1-85230-836-2 ) is the name of a controversial, best-selling 1965 book, by British Biblical scholar Hugh J. Schonfield who has also published a translation of the New Testament informed with a Jewish perspective.
* John Howard Yoder-Prominent Mennonite theologian and ethicist and Biblical scholar
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In later years, when his distributor, New American Library, threatened to withhold Thomas Burnett Swann's Biblical fantasy How Are the Mighty Fallen ( 1974 ) because of its homosexual content, Wollheim fought vigorously against their decision.
Because of his path-finding synthesis of Aristotle and Biblical faith, Maimonides also had a fundamental influence on the great Church theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Puritan millennialism has been placed in the broader context of European Reformed views on the millennium and interpretation of Biblical prophecy, for which representative figures of the period were Johannes Piscator, Thomas Brightman, Joseph Mede, Johannes Heinrich Alsted, and John Amos Comenius.
Some Biblical minimalists like Thomas L. Thompson go further, arguing that Jerusalem only became a city and capable of being a state capital in the mid-seventh century.
Biblical scholar Craig A. Evans also ascribes to this view and notes that " Over half of the New Testament writings are quoted, paralleled, or alluded to in Thomas ...
* Thompson, Thomas L., " A Neo-Albrightean School in History and Biblical Scholarship?
Thomas Kelly Cheyne ( 1841 – 1915 ) was an English divine and Biblical critic.
Saint Thomas Aquinas spoke of the name " Mary ," which served to indicate who was the " full of grace " person mentioned, as the only word added at his time to the Biblical text.
He shared the view of such scholars as Thomas L. Thompson that there is a severe mismatch between the Biblical narrative and the archaeological findings in Palestine.
Chartered in 1891 by First Baptist Church and named for Thomas Meredith, founder of the Biblical Recorder, the Baptist Female University opened in 1891 in a facility in downtown Raleigh.
The traditional view, personified in such archaeologists as Albright and Wright, faithfully accepted the biblical events as history, but has since been questioned by " Biblical minimalists " such as Niels Peter Lemche, Thomas L. Thompson and Philip R. Davies.
John Christopher Thomas ( born c. 1955 ) is a theologian within the Pentecostal movement and the Clarence J. Abbott Professor of Biblical Studies at the Pentecostal Theological Seminary.
The term is based on the Biblical account of Thomas the Apostle, a disciple of Jesus who doubted Jesus ' resurrection and demanded to feel Jesus ' wounds before being convinced ( John 20: 24-29 ).
In Thomas Burnett Swann's Biblical fantasy novel How are the Mighty Fallen ( 1974 ) David and Jonathan are explicitly stated to be lovers.
* Thomas Oden: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture series, which pieces together Biblical commentary from the Church's first millennium
Theosis in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance ( Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies ).
; Judge John Dillard of the North Carolina Supreme Court ; American theologian and Biblical Greek scholar Archibald Thomas Robertson.
* Thompson, Thomas L. ( 1999 ) The Mythic Past ; Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel, ( New York: Basic Books ).
He holds a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas ( Angelicum ), and a license in biblical science from the Pontifical Biblical Institute.
Studies in the History, Literature and Religion of Biblical Israel ", a collection of articles from 1964 onwards with an introduction by Thomas L. Thompson, will appear in mid-2011.
Thomas Jefferson Conant ( December 13, 1802 – April 30, 1891 ), American Biblical scholar, was born at Brandon, Vermont.
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