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It seems to me that there is something lacking in the study of Old Testament apocalyptic. The debate has focused on what apocalyptic is, whether Daniel wrote Daniel, and the relationship of apocalyptic to the prophets and wisdom tradition. But what about the question, ‘Why apocalyptic?’ Some answers are offered to this, but they are [...]

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This is from a lecture I gave back in 2006, on the teaching of 2 Corinthians on the Holy Spirit. holy-spirit-in-2-cor.pdf

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Andrew McGowan has recently written ‘The Divine Spiration of Scripture’, largely written against the inerrancy of Scripture, and in favour of a particular view of infallibility. I’ve written a response. I dubb his position (not that it is ‘his’ position – it is not new) ‘hypothetical errancy’ (which is a little bit more accurate than [...]

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I’m just about to deliver a conference paper (next Wednesday, April 9, 2008) on George Whitefield. You may download the paper, but please understand that it is going to be spoken. Almost all the footnotes have been deleted. At a later time, I will put up my full Westminter ThM thesis on the subject, with [...]

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This is a paper I wrote in 2006 for the Master of Arts in Theology course I am doing. It looks at the meaning of the name Yahweh in Exodus, in Exodus 3:12-15 and Exodus 6:2-5 and across the whole book, and suggests an outline for the whole book (two halves, Exodus 1-18 and 19-40, [...]

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