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TMS is more than employment, it is the institution where I enjoy being part of training men for ministry "as though lives depended on it." My part is to see that they are trained to exegete and expound the Hebrew Bible.
Placerita is our church home, reaching the Santa Clarita Valley for Christ. While I serve as an elder and teach an adult Sunday School class, my wife directs women's ministries and serves as church librarian.
TMC is the sister school to TMS. In our family we have six graduates (my wife, two daughters, two sons-in-law, and one daughter-in-law) and one son who received his Bible training there before going on to Annapolis. We highly recommend it to young people wanting an excellent college education on a Christian campus.
GTY produces and distributes Dr. John MacArthur's (president of TMC and TMS) sermon tapes and books around the world.
IBEX is TMC's extension program in Israel. Six thousand of Todd's photos are available on CDs in his 10-volume "Pictorial Library of Bible Lands." It is a superb resource for teaching the Bible.
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Phil is a consummate theologian with a quick mind and keen insight. Spurgeon's mantle appears to have fallen on Phil's shoulders--and Spurgeon would be pleased. As you will find out when you visit his web site, Phil Johnson has a mischievous sense of humor that leaves one rolling in the aisles.
What Lambert Dolphin has accomplished and Ted Hildebrandt is attempting here in the U.S., Robert Bradshaw is working on in the U.K. This is another one of those web sites I would expect my students to become familiar with. (Hint, hint.)
Ted and I share some stories about our seminary student days at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana. His web site's list of e-sources is just beginning, but it will prove to be an invaluable treasure trove. Besides his delving into the areas of virtual tours of the Holy Land, Ted is one of evangelicalism's leading experts on the Book of Proverbs.
Lambert Dolphin began his web site in 1995 and has managed to pack it with the most comprehensive collection of links for biblical and theological studies to be found anywhere on the world wide web today. Besides being a Christian gentleman with a love for the Scriptures, he was born again the same year I was (1962) and we have a number of common acquaintances. No student of the Old Testament can afford to ignore the wealth of resources available in Lambert's Library.
Paul Jablonowski provides photographs of a scale model together with color-coded floor plans to help visualize what Ezekiel's Temple might look like. On this site there are also a Temple history, a discussion of the order of services in Ezekiel's Temple, and a map of the divisions of the land for that time.
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With apologies to my personal mentors in OT studies whom I admire so much and to whom I owe more than I could ever repay (Leo Lapp, Bernard Northrup, and John Whitcomb), I would trade the lion's share of my years with them for one semester under Robert Dick Wilson. (Yes, I am known to employ hyperbole for dramatic effect.) He, in my estimation, is one of the greatest scholars to have ever graced the field of OT studies. Tragically, even evangelical OT scholars today largely ignore his work. I understand why the liberals ignore Wilson--no liberal scholar has ever been able to refute his magisterial works (e.g., Studies in the Book of Daniel [G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917]). They stand like the everlasting hills because he never abandoned the supremacy of Scripture over human reason and over the fragmentary and uncertain nature of extrabiblical evidence. No OT professor should be hired by any evangelical seminary if he has not read and assimilated Wilson's A Scientific Investigation of the Old Testament (reprint; Moody, 1959). The web site to which this link will take you is a treasure trove of information about Robert Dick Wilson and even includes electronic texts of some of his works.
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This site includes essays and news items of vital interest to those of us who accept the Bible as an authority superior to secular and humanistic interpretations of archaeological evidence. Check out Gary A. Byers, "The Historical Basis of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code" dealing with a current topic. Web site home of the journal Bible and Spade.
Information about the world of the scrolls, the Qumran community and library. Introduction to scholarly discussion about Qumran. Photographs of some scroll fragments together with English translations of their content. Links to resource materials.
Detailed listing of the Qumran scrolls organized by cave. Includes brief descriptions and references to the published materials.
Originally housed at the University of Virginia's web site, this Brown University site seeks to make available all inscriptions from Israel dating from the Hellenistic Period through the Persian conquest (330 B.C.-A.D. 614). Included among them are mosaics.
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Browse or read the Aleppo Codex in photographic reproduction with magnification capabilities. This is a superb site. This codex is the basis for the current Hebrew University Bible Project to produce the most complete textual critical edition in history for the Hebrew Bible. Genesis 1 through Deuteronomy 27 is missing due to the synagogue fire set by Arabs in 1947 to protest the partition of Palestine.
All the black and white photographs for the full text of 1QIsa are accessible on this web site by Fred P. Miller, pastor of Mt. Union Christian Church, Slanesville, West Virginia. Materials include a detailed introduction.
Fred P. Miller (see the information above on the link for the Qumran Great Isaiah Scroll) has also posted the photographs for 1QpHb along with his own comments and discussion.
The text of the LXX is available on this site with a parsing tool that appears when you click on a word.
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When you go to this web site, be patient while the graphics load. Watch the moving ball. Your wait will be abundantly rewarded with an aerial hover over Jerusalem. You'll see the Jaffa Gate highlighted first and eventually see the Dead Sea from above Jerusalem. The large Hebrew letters at the top of the opening screen mean "About Israel." See if you can figure out what the sites are that other reference markers indicate.
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Hebrew Union College makes this Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon available. This lexicon project is edited by Stephen A. Kaufman and Joseph A. Fizmyer, with Michael Sokoloff as associate editor. It will include all dialects from all periods of ancient Aramaic. Users can create concordance entries as well as seeing an outline of the lexicon entry for a specific word. A verse by verse lexical analysis is also accessible. Unicode fonts are made available for viewing the texts correctly.
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This is but one of the many excellent articles available at the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) web site.
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Enter a topic and you can access the articles from the 1901 edition edited by James Orr. Look up "Psalms, Book of" and you will be able to read the clearest presentation available of Thirtle's theory of psalm titles (thanks to John Richard Sampey, author of the entry).
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While I was in my doctoral program at Grace Theological Seminary I worked at Eisenbrauns. I started in the mail room shipping books around the world and moved into the phototypesetting department when Jim Eisenbraun found out I could type. It was a dream job--working around books and with books. I had the privilege of typesetting the first fascicle of The Chicago Hittite Dictionary and typesetting and proofing M. O'Connor's Hebrew Verse Structure and David Noel Freedman's Pottery, Poetry, and Prophecy as well as creating the indexes for both of those volumes. Jim did more than teach me Akkadian and provide me with an excellent job. He also prepared me for an aspect of my missionary service in Bangladesh that neither one of us could have foreseen. Without knowing about my work experience, the mission had ordered the same phototypesetting machine for publishing Christian literature in Bengali. As a result, I set up the first operational phototypesetting machine of its kind in Bangladesh and trained men to work on it. The lesson: God uses even a seminarian's employment to prepare him for future ministry.
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No one should ever preach in the Psalms without reading and singing the poetic renditions of Isaac Watts. Singing psalms is an exercise that will bless the soul and elevate the mind. That is one of the practices I follow in teaching through the Psalter in my adult Sunday School class. I highly recommend it.
Here is a quick verse by verse Bible-based access to words and tunes for hymns. The site also includes some stories of hymns and hymn writers.
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John Gill is the only Baptist to produce a systematic theology (his Body of Divinity) and a detailed multi-volume commentary on the entire Bible. Back in the mid-70s I found an 18th century copy of his commentary on the Song of Solomon in a bookstore in Boulder, Colorado. It was near closing time when I asked the proprietor the price. He responded by asking me how much I had in my wallet. He accepted my paltry $15, because he had had a good day of sales and was feeling generous. Tragically, in spite of very careful measures to preserve it Stateside while I was overseas in Bangladesh, my prized copy met a very ignominious demise in a horse corral in Wyoming. But that is another story for another time.
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My favorite Jeff Larson cartoons are his series on Leviticus.
What would it be like to go to Mars? The red planet has always intrigued me. Some years ago I even wrote a short story presenting real arguments for creationism vs. evolution featuring a debate between two protagonists in a space station on Mars. The Mars Rovers' photos are absolutely amazing.
Perhaps only those who have already been introduced to Velikovsky can really appreciate these archives. Worlds in Collision, Ages in Chaos, Oedipus and Akhenaton, and Peoples of the Sea gave me many hours of reading pleasure that challenged my perceptions of ancient histories.
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