Frank Luke

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I am a web programmer by day (PHP) and work on sermons and teaching material in the evenings.

I attended Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Springfield, Missouri, for a Master of Arts in Theological Studies and a Master of Divinity. I am an associate pastor at a small church in Iowa. While in seminary, my emphasis was on Old Testament studies, but Dr. Wave Nunnally introduced me to the rabbinics. Those have become a special interest as well.

I also enjoy apologetics and was a very active member of the apologetics.org forum before it went defunct.

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Apr 26	revised	What language did Jesus commonly speak? added 422 characters in body
Apr 26	revised	Do the Dead Sea Scrolls argue against Aramaic primacy? deleted 67 characters in body
Apr 26	comment	What language did Jesus commonly speak? Interesting to include Yadin on the DSS here. Are you aware that he dated the scrolls to the BC ere? "an Israeli and a Jew can find nothing more deeply moving than the study of manuscripts written by the People of the Book in the Land of the Book more than two thousand years ago." He also says they come from the Second Temple Period (ended AD 70). Also, there is a difference in the "official language" of a state and a language used in that state.
Apr 26	revised	Do the Dead Sea Scrolls argue against Aramaic primacy? added 17 characters in body
Apr 26	answered	What are the earliest dated Latin manuscripts of the Bible?
Apr 26	comment	Genesis 23 — Why does the Bible change the spelling of Ephron's name? Welcome to BH! Thank you for providing the rabbinic answer to this question. We hope you like it here and continue to provide answers from a Jewish perspective. We certainly welcome it!
Apr 26	answered	Do the Dead Sea Scrolls argue against Aramaic primacy?
Apr 26	comment	Do the Dead Sea Scrolls argue against Aramaic primacy? "Through Josephus, we know the extreme rarity of a Jew speaking Greek even at the end of first century AD. We also don't see people speaking Hebrew in first century AD either." Archeology shows us that this statement is flat wrong. Greek and Hebrew were well known in the Land in the first century. Josephus also records that the soldiers defending the walls of Jerusalem made a pun out of incoming that only works in Hebrew (not Aramaic). Josephus several times draws a distinction between what his people speak and Aramaic.
Apr 26	comment	Do the Dead Sea Scrolls argue against Aramaic primacy? You are aware of the astounding amount of archeological research that has been made since on Israel since the Latin Patriarch made that statement in 1962.
Apr 25	comment	Was Jesus unaware of Joel 2:32? I like what you're saying here, Hannes. Joel referred to those who mean it when they cry out "Lord, Lord." Jesus meant that those who give Him lip service wouldn't be saved. And I really like how you have brought the context of danger vs. impressing others. Good work!
Apr 24	comment	Locations of the graves of the Patriarchs Luke would record it because he is interested in preserving an accurate record of what his witness said. He can't go and change the words of his witnesses. Stephen shows a pattern of telescoping in his speech. And as the sources (for example, Josephus is a knowledgeable Jew of the same time period and his tradition doesn't match the Tanakh either), I point out show, traditions of the patriarch's burial were all over the place. Stephen is doing midrash, simple as that. Knowledgeable Jews of the period would be fine with midrash.
Apr 24	comment	What language did Jesus commonly speak? Checking the Greek manuscripts (Nestle-Aland, MT, Wescott-Hort), I see that Luke 10:18 actually says satanan not satana as you claim. Some of your other claims suffer similar disproof. Lebontha (Matthew 2:11), all three mss families read libanan. Cammuna (Matthew 23:23), all three mss families read kuminon. As for mammona (Luke 16:9), -a is also the Greek masculine genitive ending which matches the article before it and is exactly how this word is translated, "the wealth of-".
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Apr 23	revised	Genesis 23 — Why does the Bible change the spelling of Ephron's name? added 12 characters in body
Apr 23	comment	What language did Jesus commonly speak? Thanks, Jon. Since I was only addressing the Hebrew, I didn't expect the accepted to change.
Apr 23	comment	What language did Jesus commonly speak? The Essenes did not view all of their scrolls as inspired; only the copies of the Tanak. The rest of the material was apocryphal or sectarian and they state that it was not Scripture. BTW, do you realize that your argument about the date of manufacture vs. the date of composition works against your thesis of MH not being known?
Apr 23	comment	What language did Jesus commonly speak? Saying that there is a problem with something does not invalidate the argument. Regarding the date of the scrolls, dates are determined for them in numerous ways. 1) By dating the parchment itself. 2) By sampling the ink. 3) By the shape of the letters (writing styles changed slightly over the period). The whole can be no older than the youngest component. They span several centuries and reliable scholars have dated the collection of over 800 manuscripts from ~250 BC to ~AD 50.
Apr 23	comment	What language did Jesus commonly speak? There has been a lot of archeology done in Israel since the Latin Patriarch said that in 1962.
Apr 23	revised	Locations of the graves of the Patriarchs added 311 characters in body