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Tag: Second Temple Judaism
Second Temple Jewish historical and interpretive context.
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Torah and the Believer
The ongoing validity of Mosaic Torah in the life of the New Covenant believer remains among the most contested questions in contemporary biblical theology. Post-Enlightenment statutory jurisprudence, Lutheran law–grace dualisms, and dispensational epochal fractures have frequently recast Sinai…
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The Greek Textual Matrix of Christian Theology
This essay examines the Septuagint (LXX)—the ancient Koine Greek translation of Israel’s Scriptures—as a primary witness to Second Temple textual plurality, as the dominant scriptural matrix of the New Testament writers, and as a providential medium through which…
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The Architecture of Epangelical Theology
Contemporary biblical scholarship and ecclesial practice often inherit post-Enlightenment partitions that either fragment the canon into disconnected administrative epochs or spiritualize the concrete promises given to ethnic Israel.
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Neo-Gnosticism and the Hellenistic Fracture
Contemporary Western spirituality often presents itself as innovative while rehearsing an ancient pattern: salvation by interior illumination, contempt for embodied and ecclesial life, and the thinning of faith into private feeling or informational technique.
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Gospel Ethics in Philippians
Contemporary Christian ethics faces a crisis of authority, coherence, and identity when moral reflection is detached from redemptive narrative and reduced to post-Enlightenment decisionism.
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The Three Pillars of Love and Divine Redemption: Deconstructing “Divine Abuse” through Hebraic Covenantal Soteriology and the Promise-Plan of God
Popular Western homiletics sometimes present an “angry deity” model of atonement—labeled “divine abuse” by Eitan Bar and “cosmic child abuse” by several critics—in which the Father inflicts retributive violence upon an innocent Son in order to satisfy a…
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The Fiscus Judaicus and the Parting of the Ways
Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, Emperor Vespasian instituted the fiscus Judaicus, an annual poll tax of two drachmae (two denarii) levied on Jews throughout the Roman Empire.
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The Two Powers in Heaven and the Deity of Christ
This essay investigates the ontological foundation of Christ’s deity within Hebraic monotheism, drawing on Old Testament text-patterns, Second Temple Jewish literature, apostolic writings, and later rabbinic polemics.
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The Case for the Immaterial Soul: Philosophical Defenses, Canonical Foundations, and Promise-Plan Integration
This essay defends generic, holistic substance dualism—the claim that the human person is an integrated compound of an immaterial soul and a material body—against both contemporary secular physicalism and a post-biblical Hellenistic dualism that devalues physical embodiment.
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Decoding the End: Rapture Timelines, Early Church Testimony, Lexical Protocol, and the Architecture of the Promise-Plan
Modern evangelical eschatology is frequently dominated by popular media, chart-driven dispensationalism, and novelistic franchises that depict a secret, two-phase return of Jesus Christ designed to evacuate believers before a global tribulation.