Aaron Huffman

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@BibBack1 -Before Christians in the 4th or 5th century, almost no one cared about or for the poor..

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@BibBack 1 -In the ancient Mediterranean world, honor was what got them up in the morning and motivated them.

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@BibBack1 -Eleazar, the mother, and her 7 sons keeping obedience to the law is what saves Israel in the story of 2nd Macabees..

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@BibBack1 -2 Macabees recounts the same story as the 1st and puts it into a larger theological framework.

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@BibBack1 -The law in 2nd Macabees becomes something different than what it was intended to be.

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@BibBack1 "Modern day Judaism is actually not what the Hebrews practiced in the Old Testament."

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@BibBack1 "In the gospels, Pilate was probably actually doing a lot of course correction, trying to learn the Jews."

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@BibBack1 "Hellenism was all about promoting Greek culture, but could also encourage local identities."

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@BibBack1 "There were no church buildings for about 200 years, and then all of a sudden..... Basilicas!"

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@BibBack1 -In Genesis 26:5, God clearly says that Abraham obeyed the law. How did he do this?? By faith.

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@BibBack1 What is striking about Hammurabi's code is all the parallels to the Torah..

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@BibBack1 "Unconditional does not entail unmerited."
-Prof. Volkmer

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@BibBack1 "Fear in the O.T. Does not mean awe or reverence, it means submission or fleeing.."

-prof. Volkmer

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@BibBack1 -Contrary to popular thought, the reason Jesus rode in on a donkey was actually because donkeys were the animals of kings!

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@BibBack1 -A covenant is the solemn entering into of an agreement b/w two parties ratified by the killing of animals..

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"The poems in the Pentateuch are always there to shed light on the previous narrative."

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"The trinity in the OT is implicit; the trinity in the NT is explicit."

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"Literary contexts nail down meanings, but they don't import new meanings." #Jeff Volkmer