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Talants and the Temple Scroll
Accounting for the money-obsession of the writer of Matthew is his own declaration of his priestly profession as a tax collector in 9:9....
Prepositions and the crosses
The book of John is the first gospel written, but the last in published order. In 11:43 a name that is used 11 times is once called aloud...
"Lazarus, who is Simon Magus?"
What man is more mysterious and yet has such a legacy that his name is immortalized by an obscure noun ("simony") defining "the buying or...
Book of Mark manages to make its mark
The writer of the first synoptic gospel manages to encode several 666s on a very spare skeletal structure. Absent a single monologue...
EXTRA! A Tribute to Ivan Panin
On this date in 2006, I serendipitously stumbled upon a rare book. Ivan Panin had privately published in 1934 by the University Press at...
Murder and evil: a sinister side of the sermon
To murder or to have been murdered? That is the question facing the decoder of the cryptic message at the beginning of the 999s. οὐ μὴ ὃς...
Circling the centre of the seven sermon layers
Like being in the eye of a hurricane, we shall calmly observe what storms of controversy have revolved around the most mysterious number...
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