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Tag: Second Temple Judaism
Second Temple Jewish historical and interpretive context.
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Archaeological Evidence for the Historical Reliability of the Gospels: Epigraphical Corroboration, Critical Realism, and the Space-Time Anchor of the Divine Promise-Plan
The historical validity of Christian theology is bound to verifiable occurrences in space-time history, most foundational among which are the earthly ministry, public trial, Roman execution, and bodily resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Matthew 22: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
Matthew 22 marks the dramatic climax of the controversy dialogues between Jesus and the Jerusalem religious leadership in the Temple courtyard during Passion Week. Following the symbolic clearing of the Temple and the initial parables of covenantal indictment…
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One People: The Organic Continuity of Israel and the Church within the Promise-Plan of God
Contemporary biblical scholarship frequently presents the canonical Scriptures as a fragmented compilation of competing theological traditions, contrasting an Old Testament national particularism with a New Testament universalism.
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Decoding the End Rapture Timelines, Millennial Metaphors, and the Architecture of the Promise-Plan
Modern evangelical eschatology is frequently dominated by speculative timelines and popular media that depict a secret, two-phase return of Jesus Christ and an imminent “Rapture” designed to evacuate believers before a global tribulation.
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Matthew 21: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
Matthew 21 marks a pivotal transition in the First Gospel as Jesus shifts his ministry from Galilee to the cultic and political epicenter of first-century Judaism: Jerusalem. Within the overarching architecture of God’s promise-plan, this chapter presents the…
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Matthew 20: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
), moving directly toward the climactic fulfillment of God’s redemptive architecture. Situated immediately following the promise of cosmic renewal (
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Christological Metaphysics: The Theological Foundation of Christian Ethics within the Promise-Plan of God
Christian ethics faces a crisis of authority when moral commands are severed from redemptive identity and from the canon’s own plot. This essay argues that evangelical moral reasoning must begin with
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Historical Scrutiny of Islamic Origins: Narrative Construction, Inlibration, and the Promise-Plan of God
This essay examines the Standard Islamic Narrative of Qurʾānic origins, the life of Muḥammad, and the sacred geography of Mecca under ordinary historical-critical pressure, and then situates the resulting questions within Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s promise-plan theology.
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The Soul and the Brain: A Biblical-Theological and Philosophical Defense of Substance Dualism within the Promise-Plan of God
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 reductive materialism, nonreductive physicalism, and a post-biblical Hellenistic dualism that treats the body as…
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The Inlibration Fallacy, Early Islamic Origins, and the Promise-Plan of God: A Biblical-Theological and Historical-Critical Appraisal
This essay evaluates classical Islamic apologetic claims about scriptural immutability, Christology, and early Islamic origins through historicalcritical inquiry and Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s promise-plan biblical theology.