Moving Day!

I've decided to move my blog to WordPress because it seems to have more functionality. So I'm mothballing my old site and will begin blogging here. 

My new blog location is:
http://hamblinofjerusalem.wordpress.com/


 I'll be leaving this blog open so that people can still read some of the earlier posts, but I'll no longer be blogging here.


Hope you'll join me there!

New article on John 2, purification of the temple

Web version on Patheos.

Patheos

pdf version on academia.edu

Academia.edu

Some Articles on priestly messiah

Mason, E. You Are a Priest Forever: Second Temple Jewish Messianism and the Priestly Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews (2008)

Higgins, A . .I. B. "The Priestly Messiah." New Testament Studies 13 (1966-67): 211-

39.

Kuhn, Karl Georg. "The Two Messiahs of Aaron and Israel." New Testament Studies I

(1954/55): 168-80.

Liver, J. "The Doctrine of the Two Messiahs in Sectarian Literature in the Time of the

Second Commonwealth." Harvard Theological Review 52 (1959): 149-85.

Rainbow, Paul. "Melchizedek as a Messiah at Qumran." Bulletin of Biblical Research

7 (1997): 179-94.

Babylonian Talmud Online

For those interested in such things, the Soncino translation of the Babylonian Talmud is available online, along with a number of other resources.

http://halakhah.com/

Reading the Talmud is not the most entertaining thing in the world, but its historical importance is immense.  

New column on John 1:19-34 on Patheos

On Patheos at:

http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Testimony-of-John-the-Immerser-William-Hamblin-01-24-2011.html

A pdf version at:

http://byu.academia.edu/WilliamHamblin/Papers/393034/Commentary_on_John_1_19-34

New column on John 1:6-18 on Patheos

http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Commentary-on-John-The-Word-Part-2-01-14-2011.html

pdf of the full version with notes:

http://byu.academia.edu/WilliamHamblin/Papers/385701/John_1_6-18

Internet woes

Here are some observations on the perils of "intellectual" life on the Internet.


1- Never trust Internet sources.  Anyone can say anything on the Internet, and they always do.

2- Never turn to anti-X sources for information about X.  Jewish anti-Christians will not fully inform you of the issues related to Christianity any more than Christian anti-Semites will properly inform you about Judaism.

3- Try to gain an in-depth understanding about an issue before drawing a conclusion.  Conclusions based on superficial knowledge and evidence are inevitably going to be made for the wrong reasons, even if you happen to guess correctly in any given instance.  Knowing the right answer means understanding why an answer is right, not knowing a correct fact by happenstance--like guessing on a true-false question on a test.