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New book by seminary professor explores Hebrew language, O.T.

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary professor and Hebrew scholar Mark Rooker has written a new book that explores the complexities and beauty of ancient Hebrew and the Old Testament.

Training for Bible translators on the horizon at Southeastern

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary is poised to offer a new doctoral program emphasis that will provide the International Mission Board with world-class linguists as it reaches people groups around the world with the Gospel.

Former Southeastern professor Alan Neely dies from illness

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--Former Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary professor Alan Neely died at his home on May 14 in Raleigh, N.C., after an extended respiratory illness. He was 74.

Academic chairs at SEBTS to honor Charles Page, Dorothy Patterson

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary's board of trustees unanimously voted to establish the Charles Page Chair of Biblical Theology and Dorothy Kelley Patterson Chair of Women's Studies during their April 14-15 meeting on the Wake Forest, N.C., campus.

Chaplain witnesses God’s power to calm the storming winds and seas of life

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--The battlefields of Iraq have become more of a mission field than Capt. Eddie Cook ever imagined.
     Opportunities to share God's grace have uplifted even this firm believer -- who serves as chaplain and a master-rated parachutist in the 3rd Battalion of the 82nd Airborne Division's 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment -- and helped him bring many fellow soldiers to Christ.

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Members of the 3rd Battalion of the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment listen as chaplain Eddie Cook reads the Word of God. Photo by Tracy Wilcox, The Fayetteville (NC) Observer
     When 80 mph winds threatened to topple his battalion one day, his fellow soldiers shouted out to him to pray. Standing in the middle of the besieged tent, Cook prayed silently for the sandstorm to stop. When the howling winds died abruptly, he was not surprised at God's grace.
     He suddenly realized that though his previous silent prayers had been answered, God was waiting for him to speak up.

She comforts other wives as her husband ministers abroad

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--Jennifer Cook is used to life as an Army wife. She realizes the stresses and strains that come with the territory.
     But Operation Iraqi Freedom is an addition to an already stressful time for Cook. Her husband, Capt. Eddie Cook, a 2002 Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary graduate, is a chaplain in the 3rd Battalion of the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment from Fort Bragg, N.C., currently deployed in the Middle East.