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Exploring Erythrai
By
Ben Witherington
Set on a hill overlooking the beautiful Aegean is the ancient city of Erythrai. It is not on anybody’s tour itinerary, because it has hardly been excavated. Some of it simply sticks out of a farmer’s plot of eggplants. The theater still has various steps intact and a tremendous view from the top (see the…
Mission to Jakarta
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Ben Witherington
Through the auspices of of Perkantas, the Indonesian version of InterVarsity, and other Christian groups, I was asked to come to Jakarta and deal with the issue of the Gnostic Gospels and also the Jesus Tomb theory. The impetus for this was that books on these subjects had been published in Indonesian, some even by…
Pagan Christianity?– Ask St. Nick
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Ben Witherington
There has been a lot of loose talk of late about pagan Christianity. I want to say from the outset that most of this sort of rhetoric about pagan Christianity, and it is rhetoric, is either false, or based on half truths. One of the more frequent parts of this discussion has to do with…
The Pilgrimage to the Nerl
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Ben Witherington
Let me take you on a journey into the past. Let us return to a time when people simply walked to church, along birch tree-lined paths, often walking many miles to get to church. The time is the high Middle Ages, and the place is Russia, more specifically one of the cities of the Golden…
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