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A Surprising Challenge

Revisado: 01-17-25

Having already listened to Eitan Bar's "Refuting Rabinic Judaism" I thought that this book would offer more of the same eye-opening insights into the history behind modern Judhaism, and why there is such animus by so many in the Jewish community to Christianity. While it touches a little on that, the onus of the book (or at least what stuck with me most as a Christian) is that Christians are the main reason that Jews don't believe in Jesus.

By the end of the section on the history of Christian treatment of Jews, I felt like flying to Israel just to knock on every possible door to apologise about every crazy, demented thing that Christians have said about and done to the Jewish people.

But Dr. Bar posed further, more substantive, challenges that I hadn't anticipated. namely, our understanding of the Trinity(!) and Substitutionary Atonement(!)-he favours the ancient Ransom View/ Christus Victor understanding of the atonement. My main criticism here is that it did not seem evident that was always interacting with the most sophisticated expressions of these views. He takes particular issue with the way that Reformed pastors have articulated the Substitutionary Atonement. I would be interested to hear his assessment of William Lane Craig 's treatment (being the work of a Molinist) of these topics in his forthcoming volumes on philosophical systematic theology. Probably worth 4.5 stars, but I know a lot of haters will give it 1s, so, I'm okay with rounding up to a 5.

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Frenetic Finance...

Revisado: 10-13-24

The book did a good job of bringing drama to 1980s bond trading. A little heavy on the details of certain individuals, (probably a bit more on the names and dates than was strictly necessary), and punctuated by copious amounts of swearing. By the time the book came to an end I felt like I had a much better understanding of the mad and exciting world of '80s finance. The book was good enough that I started looking for other books by the author as soon as I finished this one. I hope that his book analysing major economic works comes out on audio soon.

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Book 2 please!

Revisado: 04-10-23

It was really funny and I enjoyed it so much! There needs to be a book 2!

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Dated but sound

Revisado: 12-22-19

Dr. Montgomery is speaking to a largely Christian audience, so he does not explain all of his points clearly enough to convince all of his points clearly enough to convince an unsympathetic, non-Christian listener, but his fundamental point, namely that revelation is a necessary grounds for human rights, snd that natural law has inherent and insuperable weakness, is well established.

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Works like a charm

Revisado: 04-07-19

It’s not easy to get either of my kids off to sleep, but this well-produced little audiobook works really well.

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A great resource!

Revisado: 12-23-18

This audiobook is a great way to master (or, in my case, to brush up on) Koine Greek. The ability to listen to the Ancient Greek is such s benefit!This reading follows the Erasmian/ reconstructed pronunciation of Ancient Greek, non- native speakers who prefer the another pronunciation scheme will still be able to understand either the modern pronunciation or the living koine pronunciation even if they start with this, which is the standard pronunciation of Ancient Greek which is taught at universities. I have been listening to this constantly as I drive, and with each new hearing I understand more. I am also going through the Trenchards Complete Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament , which is very helpful in understanding this recording. I am only up to the point of understanding words that occur about 20 times or more, and I can understand a fair amount (basically all of 1st John much of the other texts). The texts were well chosen in that they are important and interesting texts, but they can also be understood reasonably well even with only my minimal grasp of Ancient Greek. My only criticism is that he often pronounced omicrons is a way that is indistinguishable from an alpha. Others have complained about this sort pronunciation ambiguity and blamed it on an American accent. Perhaps this is the reason, but as an American, I usually force myself to enunciate distinctly between the two. Regardless, this small problem is easily resolved by reading along with the text a couple of times while listening. All in all a very helpful resource!😀

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