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Warning Sign to Greeks on the Temple Mount

May 22, 2017by Max LeeComments on Warning Sign to Greeks on the Temple Mount

It feels like a long time since my Turkey trip in March 2017. I took about 6500 photos from my study tour through Turkey. A big shout-out to Dr. Mark Wilson who was an amazing commentator…

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Paul’s Use of Precious Metals to Describe Pastoral Ministry in 1 Cor 3:11-15

February 14, 2016by Max LeeComments on Paul’s Use of Precious Metals to Describe Pastoral Ministry in 1 Cor 3:11-15

It just so happens that the antiquities exhibit at the Getty Villa affords an opportunity to give a photo-by-photo commentary on Apostle Paul’s use of precious materials to describe the building blocks of pastoral ministry….

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Once Again the Brutality of Ancient Boxing: Lessons from the Getty Villa Museum

February 8, 2016by Max LeeComments on Once Again the Brutality of Ancient Boxing: Lessons from the Getty Villa Museum

It’s back to business and the main focus of this blog: interpreting the Apostle Paul in his Greco-Roman context. In the past, I had done a series of posts on athleticism in the Mediterranean world…

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Recovering Papyri Fragments from the Wrappings of Mummy Masks

October 18, 2015by Max LeeComments on Recovering Papyri Fragments from the Wrappings of Mummy Masks

Cartonnage bath to separate out the used papyri from a mummy maskPhoto taken from Emily Teeter’s Ancient Egypt (2003) Prior to my post on the Symposium on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture, I wrote on the mummy masks…

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Mummy Masks and Roman Egyptians

September 19, 2015by Max Lee2 Comments on Mummy Masks and Roman Egyptians

One of the best exhibits at the Getty Villa was the display of mummy masks from Roman Egypt. The use of portaits painted on the head of a mummy is a combination of Egyptian burial…

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Walking through a Roman Villa at Getty

September 12, 2015by Max LeeComments on Walking through a Roman Villa at Getty

During a research trip to the libraries of UCLA and my alma mater Fuller Theological Seminary this past August 2015, I finally got my chance to visit the antiquities exhibit of Greek and Roman artefacts…

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Popular Fear and Dread of the Afterlife

July 13, 2014by Max LeeComments on Popular Fear and Dread of the Afterlife

Apulian red-figure volute κρατήρ by”Underworld Painter” (330-320 BC) Photo from Staatliche Antikensammlungen Museum, Munich, GermanyImage credit: http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/ Before I can post on philosophical criticisms lodged against fearing death, I need to outline what those fears were. As…

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