The First five books of the Bible are collectively referred to as the Torah by Jewish communities and as the Pentateuch by the Christian church since the term was first coined by Tertullian in the third century AD. Traditionally they are ascribed to Moses even though they show clear signs of later editors and compilers, Read More …
There is a remarkably helpful pattern to the books of the Old Testament which finds a parallel in Luke’s description of the Gospel as: “All that Jesus began to do and to teach“, Acts 1:1 There were two aspects to Jesus, there were the things he did and the things he said. It was the Read More …
The Old Testament leader Joshua is called “Jesus” in the King James version of the New Testament, (see Acts 7:45 and Hebrews 4:8). Technically Joshua, (Hebrew “Yhowshua”) is a more formal version of Jesus name, “Yeshua”. But it is still the same name. In fact the Old Testament uses the more “modern” spelling “Yeshua” for Read More …
Writing the JCB booklet is a part of a bigger project to create a translation of the Bible and a study Bible that expands and annotates the text to show Jesus from start to finish. Writing the mini-books is helping me shape up conventions for translating/expanding the text… it’s taking longer than I thought but Read More …
I’ve been in Bulgaria for a couple of days now, it has all been fascinating, but tonight I sat in on a meeting of the Bulgarian Bible Project Team… In term of NT Greek this team is as accomplished and as knowledgable as any in the World.. Grammatically Bulgarian is very close to Greek. This Read More …
I was teaching the introduction to Jesus in the Old Testament last night and afterwards someone started to quiz me on why the number seven was important and how it related to Jesus. Which was fascinating because I’ve just written this up for “Jesus in the Beginning”.. after all the significance of seven makes itself Read More …
The New Testament starts with the words: “The book of generations….” Matthew 1:1, which in Greek reads “The book of Genesis…” The Greek title of the first book of the whole Bible. All four of the Gospels draw on the Creation account and structure in their opening verses John even starts with exactly the same Read More …
