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Themelios: Volume 22, No. 3, April 1997 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Themelios is an international evangelical theological journal that expounds and defends the historic Christian faith. Its primary audience is theological students and pastors, though scholars read it as well. It was formerly a print journal operated by RTSF/UCCF in the United Kingdom, and it became a digital journal operated by The Gospel Coalition in 2008. The new editorial team, led by D.A....

heretics, Birkat ha-Minim, which was inserted into the Standing Prayer about AD 80.22 A main reason for this innovation was the high number of Jewish Christians who frequented the synagogue. After the fall of the temple it was important for the successors of the Pharisees to guard the doctrine and exclude from the synagogue Jewish Christians and other ‘heretics’. The saying of Jesus. ‘They shall expel you from the synagogue’ (Jn. 16:2), foresees this painful development. The word of the evangelist,
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