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Didache 14:1, a good reference, I have quite enjoyed that book. But, looking at it, when it says "having first confessed your sins," there isn't the impression for me anyways that this is a confession to a priest. Probably because of my presuppositions to the text, but I'm not convinced that...

but to say they criticized the Bible and made their own version isn't really the whole story. Firstly, textual criticism is not "criticism" in the sense of the criticize, but it means "critical analysis." I'm going to borrow from Victor Matthews' book "Studying the Ancient Israelites: A Guide...

you know, sacraments, and penance are both later developments, and are probably not the meaning of the text. John 20 is closer in meaning to the Lord's prayer "forgive us our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us" than to a Medieval Catholic understanding of penance.

That's cool, my interpretation (which was a bit rushed tbh) isn't the law of the land, plus Paul says a bit later that if people disagree over this then you know its no big deal. I think it would be interesting to see if woman and man in this text can be rendered as wife and husband, or if...

at least for 1 Corinthians 11:10 the word "sign" just doesn't appear in the Greek texts (neither Byzantine tradition nor Nestle-Aland), and that verse says pretty much that a women ought to have (Greek word can also mean 'must') authority over her own head. Also the idea of a veil is completely...

No problem! Also just remember one thing, every translation is also an interpretation. You cannot translate a text without interpreting it, so don't be too hard on the translations if they are a bit weird sometimes

What is interesting is 1 Peter 5:5, when he says "all of you be submissive" he's including both men and women in that statement. However, you never heard proponents of a complimentarian ideology say that men should submit themselves to women, nor to humble themselves under them. They generally...

To say that the Torah was only recorded after the exile is an extreme position, and one that is hard to square off with passages like 2 Kings 22 where in the reign of Josiah they find a book of the law, as well as many of the psalms attributed to David which mention the law as well. It just...

In Greek most words, like nouns and verbs and adjectives, have the words 'you, he, she' embedded in the word itself in the form of its ending so it isn't surprising that you wouldn't find out the difference, especially if you're using Strong's because they just give you what the stem of the word...

Obviously not one book would cover that entire time period, but there are a number of good options. I personally like Keith Bodner's books on David's era, he is a scholar but is really good at getting information across in a simple, and easy to read way. Some of his books are: 1 Samuel: A...

usually I take one evening and do anything but work. Like right now, I had a paper due Friday, an intensive all day Saturday, and had to play on the worship team in Church today, have class over the next two days as well as a paper due Tuesday, so tonight I'm doing nothing. I see it as you need...

The word used for Greek/Gentile is Ελληνων/Ελληνας and obviously that has the meaning of Greek like the people, but could also refer to Hellenized Jews as the Hellenistic culture had spread pretty much everywhere, most people had adapted some form of Hellenization. Though because the term...

I wonder how many Psalms would fail the Song Cruncher, like Psalm 136 where the line "his love/mercy endures forever" is repeated like 26 times, it seems that one would fail the "mysticism" portion of the cruncher because it repeats itself too much. Or Psalm 137 where the psalmist says "Happy...

The copies of the LXX would have mostly the same books, but what was in those books might be different than you expect. Take Jeremiah for example, there are a number of different traditions of that book, some of which are a lot shorter than the Jeremiah you would know, some other traditions...

It is generally accepted that the New Testament was originally written in Greek. Only the book of Matthew has some connection to being written in Hebrew/Aramaic beforehand, and it may not be the best source (It's Papias saying that it was written in the Hebrew language [or Hebraic style the...

I'm going to add this at the beginning: http://www.bible-researcher.com/ It's a good site to read up on some Canon issue stuff. Basically, Canon issues are always messy and complicated because you are diving into a world 2000 years old. Jesus and the Apostles would have been grounded in the...

it probably just has nothing to do with anything Scriptural.

It depends on what you mean by errors, for instance there are scribal errors in manuscripts of Scripture that we've found where a scribe will repeat a word or section, or accidentally leave our an entire paragraph, or as in the case of 2 Samuel 21 where it talks about Elhanan killing Goliath but...

That Matt passage (21:31) seems to be using 'before you' as a literal "before your very eyes" type of thing. I do think that every passing day is a chance to be saved. And while I'm not too sure of the specifics of what goes on in Hell. It is interesting to think about the Nuremberg Trials...

Dardan, greetings! The topic of Hell is certainly a tough one, and is very difficult to accept, especially the modern iteration of its understanding in a Protestant, Evangelical stream. For instance, one of a Catholic persuasion would have an easier time with the idea of Purgatory, and a time...