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Canny Carnoustie and Delightful Durham
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Ben Witherington
Behold the clubhouse at Carnoustie in Dundee, Scotland. The day was 1 /16/ o8, and the weather was bonny. The next picture is of me with my doctoral student at St. Andrews Aaron Kuecker. This word just in– he beat me by 9 strokes, but then again, he is half my age and taller. We…
The Jesus Tomb Redux–the Jerusalem Conference
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Ben Witherington
Gadflies enjoying buzzing around dead meat. In fact they are positively attracted to it, precisely because it produces ‘buzz’. The news this past week provided us with a perfect illustration of this principle. There was a conference in Jerusalem sponsored by Princeton U. with 50 invited scholars present and hosted by Jim Charlesworth to rehash…
Rethinking the Number of the Beast
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Ben Witherington
The following was sent to me by one of my students, who in turn got it from a UMC Church source– This just shows that it is not true at all that the United Methodist Church is uninterested in apocalyptic speculations 🙂 Thanks to Arlen for the picture. BW3—————-The Number of the Beast We all…
THE FIRST MAJOR DISCUSSION OF THE YEAR– ‘THE WILL OF GOD’
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Ben Witherington
Its time for us to have one of our lengthy theological discussions of the year, and since this is the time of year where Christians and others tend to ask–‘What is the will of God for my life this year?’, I thought it a propitious moment to unveil an important little study by Dr. James…
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