Category Archives: Bible Commentary

The American Patriot Bible is a Bestseller!

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Henry Neufeld

I gave my first impressions of this Bible last year.  You can probably guess my viewpoint from the title:  Another Reason to Hate Study Bibles. Today John Byron of The Biblical World comments on the American Patriot Bible reaching bestseller … Continue reading →

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Aiming Your Bible

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Henry Neufeld

I discuss letting the Bible convict you first in my monthly devotional post for the World Prayr devotional blog.

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Gordon Fee Discusses Interpreting Revelation

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Henry Neufeld

… in this video, which has been all over the biblioblogosphere.  Sorry, I don’t even remember where I first saw it.

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Lectionary and Mosaic Bible – Pentecost + 3

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Henry Neufeld

I’m ending a hiatus in blogging of just over a month.  I see my last post was dated May 8, 2010, but I was pretty sparse for a month before that.  I’ll get a post up about what I was … Continue reading →

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Review: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Hebrews

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Henry Neufeld

My primary training in biblical studies placed an overwhelming emphasis on historical study.  The idea was to get at the original meaning of the text as it would have been understood by those who first heard or read it.  I … Continue reading →

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Do You Deserve a Light or a Heavy Beating?

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Henry Neufeld

I’ve probably mentioned a few times that I studied under Dr. Alden Thompson at Walla Walla University (then WWC).  He’s the one who taught me Hebrew, though actually I joined his class in the second year, and also introduced me … Continue reading →

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St. John Chrysostom on Being Strangers

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Henry Neufeld

From Homilies on the Epistle to the Hebrews (Christian Classics Ethereal Library), commenting on Hebrews 11:13-16.  All emphasis is mine. What then? Did they mean that they were “strangers” from the land that is in Palestine? By no means: but … Continue reading →

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Book Notes: Roetzel on 2 Corinthians

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Henry Neufeld

I’ve given up the enterprise of reading this book through from cover to cover, so these notes are based on using it as reference while I’m reading 2 Corinthians itself. The fact is that I found the book impossible to … Continue reading →

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On the Old Testament and Vengeance

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Henry Neufeld

Peter Kirk linked to my post on “an eye for an eye” in responding to David Ker’s post What to do with the vengeance in the Old Testament? Skip it! As a result I’ve been able to follow a rather … Continue reading →

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Commentary: II Corinthians (NTL)

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Henry Neufeld

I have really enjoyed studying 2 Corinthians with this commentary.  Since I’ve used a number of volumes from the New Testament Library before, the easiest evaluation of this commentary I can give is that it meets and in some cases … Continue reading →

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