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Ben - The Amateur Exegete @UCNz8TXY3QeAO9SSoF4ZR_cg@youtube.com

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Bible lover. Reluctant atheist. "One does not need to deny w


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in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c

Ben - The Amateur Exegete
Posted 3 months ago

I'm continuing my series looking at the late Gail O'Day's piece "Surprised by Faith: Jesus and the Canaanite Woman." Check it out!

amateurexegete.com/2024/07/11/bible-study-for-amat…

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Ben - The Amateur Exegete
Posted 3 months ago

The latest episode of 'Bible Study for Amateurs' has dropped!

amateurexegete.com/2024/07/11/bible-study-for-amat…

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Ben - The Amateur Exegete
Posted 3 months ago

A new episode of Bible Study for Amateurs is up! It begins a series looking at a piece written by the late Gail O'Day entitled "Surprised by Faith: Jesus and the Canaanite Woman." The video and script can be found here: amateurexegete.com/2024/07/04/bible-study-for-amat…

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Ben - The Amateur Exegete
Posted 3 months ago

Paula Fredriksen: "Paul’s urgent eschatology can be muted, even avoided, by those motivated to do so."

amateurexegete.com/2024/06/27/paula-fredriksen-mut…

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Ben - The Amateur Exegete
Posted 3 months ago

Raanan Eichler: " believe that the the [sic] anonymous sage in Midrash Hagadol was correct, and the cherubim are winged humans."

amateurexegete.com/2024/06/20/raanan-eichler-cheru…

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Ben - The Amateur Exegete
Posted 3 months ago

There's a new documentary from the Myth Vision podcast on the book of Revelation you should check out!

amateurexegete.com/2024/06/13/a-new-documentary-on…

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Ben - The Amateur Exegete
Posted 4 months ago

Lex Lata wrote a guest piece over on my blog about another case of plagiarism from ‪@robertcliftonrobinson4183‬. Check it out!

amateurexegete.com/2024/06/06/the-persistent-pull-…

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Ben - The Amateur Exegete
Posted 4 months ago

Michael Kok: "Although it is signed by 'Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,' Peter may not have had an advanced education in literacy and rhetoric to pull off the the composition of 1 Peter...."

amateurexegete.com/2024/05/30/michael-kok-the-auth…

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Ben - The Amateur Exegete
Posted 4 months ago

Over at the podcast "Doubts Aloud," John Nelson and Joshua Parikh talked about the maximal data apologetic proffered by the McGrews and their acolytes. It was a really good discussion, albeit one that just brushed the surface of all the relevant issues with that methodology. Check it out!

amateurexegete.com/2024/05/23/a-conversation-about…

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Ben - The Amateur Exegete
Posted 5 months ago

Does Psalm 22 regard the one suffering as God himself, as Hugh Ross thinks?

amateurexegete.com/2024/05/16/hugh-ross-fumbles-on…

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