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    (This lecture will be delivered in another form at the IBR meeting at the SBL in Atlanta in November) THE DEATH OF SIN IN THE DEATH OF JESUS: ATONEMENT THEOLOGY IN THE NT Dr. Ben Witherington, III Amos Professor of NT for Doctoral Studies Asbury Theological Seminary I. Setting up the Context of…

Watch the right hand closely on this one…..He uses a thumb pick.

In a small art theater in the Carlton district of Melbourne, here in Australia, I was taken to see this classy period piece telling a small bit of the story of Orson Welles (the man who famously read War of the Worlds on the radio so dramatically that some people were jumping out of buildings…

The cult of the dead, and the honoring of the dead was of huge importance in all of the Biblical world, including in the Greco-Roman portion of that world.  People spent huge sums of money to be buried in prominent places in elaborate sarcophagi,and rock cut tombs, The following pictures as from several sites in…

That’s Levent Oral,  my tour company owner friend from Izmir with me.

When Christians began in the fourth century to go on pilgrimages to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, if they were coming from Italy, Greece, Turkey or anywhere west of Israel, they tended to come most of the way by boat. And one of the favorite stopping spots was on an island off the south west…
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