The vigor of religious feelings, and the fact that most, if not all, cultures include a system of spiritual belief, suggest that humans have an innate predisposition towards religiousness. There are several possible adaptive advantages that may help explain such a disposition; religions promote cooperative relations, they induce people to obeysensible rules, and they soothe the minds of their f...

How close are we to taking the gospel to all the corners of the earth, and how soon will the gospel be known by every kindred, tongue, and people? According to some, one of the signs that Christ’s second coming is imminent is that the gospel has already been preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations as a fulfillment of the conditions set out in Matthew 24:14 for Christ’s coming....

Matthean scholarship is divided as to whether the first recipients of Gospel considered themselves be part early formative Judaism. Within context this debate, study calls for recognition multiple exodus allusions in midsection Gospel. These reveal an Evangelist who either anticipated possible need withdrawal from hostile host communities or, equally plausibly, affirmed ongoing separation proce...

The Gospel of Mark contains numerous loanwords and code switches from Aramaic to Greek. These borrowed terms were not unconscious developed important social, literary andnarrative functions in key passages the Gospel. This article considers how Old Syriac versions Peshitta have treated these given that translators native speakers by been altered due translation process.