Dec 24, 2022WORLD’S OLDEST BIBLEScience and the Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Part 3) Who found them and where were they? From 1947 to 1956, the Qumran Library of about 100,000 fragments written in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic dating back to 200 BC was discovered by the Dead Sea in Israel. In 63 BC, the Romans occupied Palestine. The Temple…10 min read10 min read
Dec 24, 2022WORLD’S OLDEST BIBLEScience and the Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Part 2) The World’s Oldest Bible is found among the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS). However, the DSS were not found in the Dead Sea, they have nothing to do with the sea, or the dead, let alone the Dead Sea or…9 min read9 min read
Dec 24, 2022WORLD’S OLDEST BIBLEScience and the Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Part 1) Jesus was born in a specific time and space as a first century Roman Palestinian Jew who read the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. These three cultures shaped modern Christianity as it emerged in the fourth century from…3 min read3 min read
Jun 9, 2022The Bible of Christianity & Christianity of the BibleThe Bible of Christianity The Bible of Christianity refers to how the Bible came to be: the selection, adaptation and redaction of the books that form the Bible. 1) Genesis: The primeval account of the origin of the universe, of life and of humanity is followed by the ancestral account of Abraham’s migration from…Christain 9 Ty5 min readChristain 9 Ty5 min read
Jun 9, 2022A Bird’s Eye View of the BibleOld Testament The 39 books of the Protestant Old Testament began as oral teaching and were later committed to writing. Their compositions have been redacted over the years. The ones that we inherited are called the final forms. In the modern arrangement, the OT begins with a theological account of this world’s…5 min read5 min read
Jul 8, 2021Hebrews, Israelites & JewsAre they the same people? Today, Israel refers to a nation, whose culture is Jewish and its language Hebrew; yet the Hebrews were a people, Israelite areligion and Jew, a race! The extended family of Jacob (along with his servants and slaves) settled in the land of Goshen in Egypt…Jews11 min readJews11 min read
Feb 17, 2021THE BIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY, FROM ABRAM TO JESUSThe 2000 year spiritual journey from Abram to Jesus culminated in the Christian Church of the 4th century AD. During the past 4000 years since Abram’s migration from Mesopotamia to Egypt, the Bible is a recent form of God’s revelation. 19th century BC — Abram, a Mesopotamian trader and El…History2 min readHistory2 min read
Sep 21, 2020LIFE, DEATH & RESUSCITATION: AN INCONVENIENT TRUTHThe issue of recoveries from comas and vegetative states raise some important theological questions regarding the ethics and doctrines regarding life, death and existence in between. In the past, death was registered when the cardio-vascular system fails. Today, it is brain-death that is more important, since we are now able…Life3 min readLife3 min read
Sep 21, 2020RATIONALITY’S REASONING STRATEGIES — HOW WE BELIEVERationality is humanity’s most important survival strategy. It operates between different modes of knowledge and across different reasoning strategies. This makes interdisciplinary and cross-contextual conversation possible. Why should Christian theology bother to engage across disciplines and contexts? The Great Commission extends the Gospel across geohistorical borders of ancient Israel., i.e…Philosophy4 min readPhilosophy4 min read
Sep 21, 2020TRIBUTE TO A TEACHER & A FRIEND — LAMIN SANNEHToday, I pay tribute to my teacher and friend, the late Professor Lamin Sanneh. He was a professor of history and World Christianity at Yale. …Laminators Sanneh4 min readLaminators Sanneh4 min read
