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Paul and that Peculiar Church in Corinth
In preparation for his ongoing discussion of the place of the Spirit in the early church, Dr. Ehrman gives background on the church in...
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How the "Delay" of the End (Jesus' Return) Affected Paul's Communities
Dr. Ehrman gives some background to the topic of how the Spirit was to function in the Thessalonian community.. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
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Why the Spirit Mattered for the Earliest Christians
Dr. Ehrman emphasizes how the spirit-as-breath was important to Paul's view of the resurrection and how the period before the end of time came...
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More Recent Scholarship on Who Wrote the Pentateuch
I am now nearly finished talking about the “Documentary Hypothesis” devised by scholars of the Hebrew Bible to account for the Pentateuch, the first...
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Who Really Wrote the Pentateuch (if not Moses)? The JEDP Hypothesis
I have been discussing the sources of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy), sometimes...
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More Inconsistencies in the Pentateuch
A few posts ago I more or less backed into a new thread on literary discrepancies found in the Pentateuch, the first five books...