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John Spencer (1630–1693) was an English clergyman and scholar, and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. An erudite theologian and Hebraist , he is best remembered as the author of De Legibus Hebraeorum , a pioneer work of comparative religion , in which he advanced the thesis that Judaism was not the earliest of mankind's religions.
The book was released on 15 September 2006 by Regnery Publishing and appeared on the New York Times best-seller list for a week. The critical reception of the book was generally unfavorable, with Spencer being criticized for his selective use of sources, subjective interpretation and anachronistic reading of the historical context.
The attempt to slander Robert [Spencer] for examle, through guilt by assocation, and that assocation happens to consist of phrases that are attributed not to him but to me, and which have been completely ripped out of all explanatory and softening context, making me seem -- and therefore Robert seem -- quite as Tancredo is made to seem ...
The Earliest Semitic Pantheon: A Study of the Semitic Deities Attested in Mesopotamia before Ur III. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-801-81388-7. OCLC 379068. ———; Goedicke, Hans (1975). Unity and Diversity: Essays in the History, Literature, and Religion of the Ancient Near East. Johns Hopkins Near Eastern ...
Robert Bruce Spencer (born February 27, 1962) [1] [2] is an American anti-Muslim [15] author and blogger, and one of the key figures of the counter-jihad movement. [16] [17] Spencer founded and has directed the blog Jihad Watch since 2003. In 2010 he co-founded the organization Stop Islamization of America with Pamela Geller. [18]
The concept of "truth" in Johannine writings is then intertwined with John 16:13's statement of how the Spirit of Truth acts as guide that leads believers to truth, building on the assurance given in John 14:26 that the Paraclete facilitates and confirms the memory of "all that Jesus had taught his disciples" and John 15:26's statement that ...
The new church is not obligated to any Jewish rituals (like water baptism), according to the determination of the Council of Jerusalem recorded in Acts 15. Bullinger held that Paul's authoritative teaching began after the conclusion of the Book of Acts, a viewpoint that is now characterized as Acts 28 ultradispensationalism (chapter 28 being ...
Understanding Jehovah's Witnesses: Why They Read the Bible the Way They Do (1991; ISBN 978-0801009952) Why You Should Believe in the Trinity: An Answer to Jehovah's Witnesses (1989; ISBN 978-0801009815) Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus Christ, and the Gospel of John (1989; ISBN 978-0801009556)