Divorce, Remarriage, and the Apostle Paul’s Wife with Dr. Matthew Colvin
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The Importance of the Jewish Background in the New Testament
"I'm approaching this as a Greek scholar trying to figure out what Paul means," he says. "When I see a passage that has so many difficulties, my nose starts twitching and starts smelling around" David Dolby is one of the first scholars to seriously try to bring it into contact with Jewish law. The Bennett law considered conversion to result in a new birth,. If you were a proselyte to Judaism, you became a new creature.
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