Getting Beyond Strong’s Concordance

J.K. McKeeJanuary 3, 201421 min readAwaiting author

I have been the editor of TNN Online since 1997. Certainly, in this period of time, my understanding of the Bible has changed, and my ability to better understand it from a scholarly perspective has developed, and continues to move forward. I have to admit that when I first started digging into some of the issues that were floating around the Messianic community in the late 1990s, that my knowledge

About the author

J.K. McKee (B.A., University of Oklahoma; M.A., Asbury Theological Seminary) is a Messianic scholar, editor of Messianic Apologetics, and a 2009 recipient of the Zondervan Biblical Languages Award for Greek. He writes Messianic commentaries on books of the Bible.

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