The titles "Old" and "New Testament" were used by St. Paul (2 Corinthians, 2:14). The term "testament," as applied to the two parts of the Bible, means: a covenant, agreement, pact. In the ...
Benjamin L. Merkle (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the Dr. M. O. Owens Jr. Chair of New Testament Studies and professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist ...
No where in the New Testament (NT) does Jesus or His Apostles ... a canon loosely similar to the Protestant OT; however, the Greek-speaking Jews preferred the larger canon found in the Greek ...
By 500 BC these new territories would eventually account for an incredible 40 percent of all Greeks in the Hellenic World. Ancient Greek colonies of the 8th century BC Restless and adventurous spirits ...