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Bible Studies: Contributions Chiefly from Papyri and Inscriptions to the History of the Language, the Literature and the Religion of Hellenistic Judaism and Primitive Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the preface to this work, Deissmann writes, “Bible Studies is the name I have chosen for the following investigations, since all of them are more or less concerned with the historical questions which the Bible, and especially the Greek version, raises for scientific treatment.” This book revolutionized New Testament scholarship by demonstrating convincingly from Egyptian papyrus scraps that...

Is. 43:21 τὰς ἀρετὰς μου [θεοῦ] διηγεῖσθαι, 1 Pet. 2:9 τὰς ἀρετὰς [θεοῦ] ἐξαγγέλλειν. It seems to the author the most probable interpretation that the ἀρεταί of the last passage stands, as in the LXX, for laudes, seeing that the phrase looks like an allusion to LXX Is. 42:12, more clearly still to Is. 43:20 One must nevertheless reckon with the possibility that the word is used here in a different sense, to which reference has recently been made by Sal. Reinach,1 and which no doubt many
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