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		<title>Early Christian Theology. A History&#8211; by J. Warren Smith</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  J. Warren Smith, Early Christian Theology. A History, (Eerdmans,2026) pp. 556ff.   In an age of over-specialization, there are very few scholars today who could have written an instant classic like this book.  But Warren Smith has not only done it, but done it in great detail, with all the detailed references and footnotes [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rethinking the Garden of Eden</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[No temple in Eden]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  First things first— the Hebrew word גן means garden, and refers to a safe enclosure. Add the word עדן to it, and the overtone is of a pleasurable place, a garden of earthly delights—the garden of Eden.  Now nothing at all in these words, nor in the story we are reflecting on in Gen. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lazarus Come Forth</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 05:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[an heir raising story]]></category>
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		<title>Do You Want to Be Healed?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 05:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Some people prefer attention and comfort to healing]]></category>
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		<title>Rethinking John 7.39</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the major points I made in my volume Biblical Theology. The Convergence of the Canon (CUP, 2020), is that one must allow the OT to be the OT, which means not reading everything from the NT back into the OT.  Among the things this includes is not reading the references to ‘the spirit [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>One of My All Time Favorite Videos&#8212;Become like a Child</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>An Atheist Mom Discovers Context Matters</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Unseen Realm Q+A</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Unseen Realm Revisited and Expanded&#8212; 10 Years On</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When people ask me about Michael Heiser’s work and what I think, they do so because I’m in the film he did.  My short answer, is I think he is basically right about. Psa. 82, Deut. 32, Gen. 6 , and for that matter Gen. 1.  It is a interesting point that while God has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Few Facts about Qumran and its Scrolls</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  If there is one aspect of Biblical studies that may have been over-reported and over-studied since about 1947 are the Qumran scrolls, more popularly called the Dead Sea Scrolls (though they did not emerge floating in the Dead Sea, as I have done more than once) and the Qumran community that produced these scrolls.  [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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