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Ron Choong
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My Teacher, Lamin Sanneh (1942–2019)

I have been privileged to study under some of the greatest minds in their academic fields. In this series of tributes to them, I commend their work and celebrate their lives. Lamin Sanneh was born into a Muslim family in The Gambia. He earned his PhD in Islamic history at…

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My Teacher, Lamin Sanneh (1942–2019)
My Teacher, Lamin Sanneh (1942–2019)

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Apr 6

Egypt’s Famous 5 in the Bible

I grew up in the 1960s reading about Enid Blyton’s Famous Five, filled with adventures that delighted my young mind and fueled my thirst for adventures of my own. On my recent exploration of Egypt, I learned a great deal. I will share (a) how each location I visited relates…

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Egypt’s Famous 5 in the Bible
Egypt’s Famous 5 in the Bible

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Feb 28

“What were you thinking?”

How many times have you heard this from you mom or dad when you were growing up? When I was in graduate school, I spent a lot of time studying cognition and how we think about thinking thoughts. Why do we think as we do? …

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“What were you thinking?”
“What were you thinking?”

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Dec 24, 2022

WORLD’S OLDEST BIBLE

Science 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…

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WORLD’S OLDEST BIBLE
WORLD’S OLDEST BIBLE

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Dec 24, 2022

WORLD’S OLDEST BIBLE

Science 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…

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Dec 24, 2022

WORLD’S OLDEST BIBLE

Science 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…

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Jun 9, 2022

The Bible of Christianity & Christianity of the Bible

The 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…

Christain9ty

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Christain9ty

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Jun 9, 2022

A Bird’s Eye View of the Bible

Old 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…

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A Bird’s Eye View of the Bible
A Bird’s Eye View of the Bible

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Jul 8, 2021

Hebrews, Israelites & Jews

Are 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! Thus the 3 terms, Hebrew, Israel and Jew refer to nation, culture, language, people, religion and race depending on…

Jews

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Hebrews, Israelites & Jews
Hebrews, Israelites & Jews
Jews

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Feb 17, 2021

THE BIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY, FROM ABRAM TO JESUS

The 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…

History

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History

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Ron Choong

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I am an interdisciplinary investigator and explorer of science and religion

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