Think Wink.

I haven’t written on eschatology in a fairly long time. Sure I have written a brief post linking to anonther post but I haven’t really blogged at length on the subject in some time. Recently I watched Ken Gentry’s presentation on preterism, more specifically partial/moderate preterism, The Beast of Revelation Identified, and I enjoyed the video. For a partial preterist like myself, it was really good. For a person (like my roommate–that’s right I moved over the Fourth of July and I now live in KC-KS) who either doesn’t know what he/she believes or isn’t a partial or even a full preterists this video gives a good overview to get some questions asked and answered. In that dvd Dr. Gentry talked about how since the martyrs who are in heaven are said to reign with Christ, we must rule out the notion of a literal 1000-year millennium. That has intrigued my thoughts so I think I am going to put down here in the next post or two. Read more

The Nature of Prophecy

The Temple, the Trinity, and the Apocalypse

A Thunderous, Roaring, Crushing Voice?

The following is an article that seeks to show, based upon the work of Avi Hurvitz, that Aramaic influences upon the Hebrew text doesn’t indicate a later date for the text. This doesn’t disprove that the texts weren’t written later but rather shows that later dates shouldn’t be fully based upon an Aramaic influence upon the Hebrew. There are other reasons like geography and that Hebrew may have replaced early Aramaisms in the text (i.e. the root רמה in Exodus 15:1). It is a facinating read that I recommend. I’m interested in reading the rest of Hurvitz’s work having read this summary.

רמהרמה: Hurvitz, Avi, “Hebrew and Aramaic in the Biblical Period: The Problem of ‘Aramaisms’ in Linguistic Research on the Hebrew Bible.” Pages 24-37 in Biblical Hebrew: Studies in Chronology and Typology Edited by Ian Young. London: T&T Clark, 2003.

“In his image” and Aramaisms

Dating OT using BH

The Nature of Prophecy