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Jared Garcia

Jared Garcia is a global worker with Reaching & Teaching International Ministries, serving as academic director of Pines City Baptist School of Theology and a pastor of Pines City Baptist Church in Baguio City, Philippines.

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Was David Overreacting? Analyzing 1 Samuel 25 in Light of the Ancient Hospitality Code

by Jared Garcia

Was Nabal’s refusal to give food for six hundred people such a terrible wrong that David in 1 Samuel 25 would have been justified in seeking vengeance by killing Nabal’s entire household? Did David simply overreact? This paper demonstrates that an acquaintance with the hospitality…

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Themelios is a peer-reviewed international evangelical theological journal that expounds on the historic Christian faith. Its primary audience is theological students, pastors and scholars. It was formerly a print journal operated by RTSF/UCCF in the UK, and it became a digital journal operated by The Gospel Coalition in 2008.

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