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Brief Insights on Mastering the Bible | Book Review

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Brief Insights on Mastering the Bible is one of three volumes in Michael S. Heiser’s 60-Second Scholar series, published by Zondervan. The other two similarly titled volumes have to do with Bible study and Bible doctrine. Each book contains 80, two-page chapters that explain the topic sentence which constitutes the chapter’s title. For example, the title of chapter 43 is “Most of the Material in the Prophetic Books Isn’t About Predicting the Future,” and the chapter goes on to explain why this is the case. Heiser is scholar-in-residence at Logos Bible Software, as well as an erstwhile professor at several … Continue reading Brief Insights on Mastering the Bible | Book Review

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Review of ‘Windows into the Bible’ by Marc Turnage

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This review first appeared at InfluenceMagazine.com. Marc Turnage, Windows into the Bible: Cultural and Historical Insights from the Bible for Modern Readers (Springfield, MO: Logion Press, 2016). “The past is a foreign country,” wrote British novelist L. P. Hartley; “they do things differently there.” We modern Bible readers would do well to keep Hartley’s dictum in mind. Why? Because the question, “What did the Bible mean?” takes precedence over the question, “What does the Bible mean for me?” We cannot correctly apply biblical wisdom to our lives until we understand what the Bible said in its original context. Windows into … Continue reading Review of ‘Windows into the Bible’ by Marc Turnage