When I went to graduate school, we were taught that Mark is the oldest Gospel while Matthew and Luke copied Mark, and that Mark came from a theoretical source named Q (after German word “quelle” ...
The “hall of faith” in Hebrews 11 doesn’t praise what we think it praises. As a kid, I loved Hebrews 11 with its hall of famed Bible heroes who lived by faith. I imagined them among the heavenly crowd ...