The Christadelphian Ejournal is an online magazine published quarterly and intended to be a forum for articles written in an analytical style. It is a vehicle for exegetical and expositional articles, it engages in academic biblical studies that originate in other Christian confessions, it defends the Biblical principles summarised in the common Christadelphian statement of faith and subject published articles to peer review and amendment.
Is the New Testament truly an “eye-witness” account of events that occurred at the time of Christ and during the life of Paul, or is it a later composition—an account recorded by a second generation of Christians and influenced by …
Bible scholars and readers constantly make intertextual connections. In discussion, such connections are subject to disagreement. The question arises therefore as to how a connection can be assessed as valid. Richard Hays has proposed seven criteria for assessing the validity …
Hebrew writings were not laid out with the apparatus of footnotes and parentheses. Marginal corrections and marks above and below the line were used to comment upon the accuracy of the text. This does not mean that the phenomenon of …
The Day of Atonement is a complex subject. The problem addressed in this article is: If the Day of Atonement is a post-exilic feast, does it have an origin rooted in the history of Israel – as does, for …
The etymology of the name ‘Ăzâ’zêl, cited four times in Leviticus 16 has long been a source of puzzlement. The lots were cast for two goats, one was “for Yahweh”, and the other “for ‘Ăzâ’zêl” (the scapegoat) – in …
Isa 47:6 is usually taken to refer to the sixth century Babylonian captivity. Critical scholars take it as an utterance of Second Isaiah living in Babylon; conservative scholars take it as a long range prediction of such captivity. How can …
Sargon II had pursued the policy of deporting and exchanging populations. The record of his capture of Samaria states,
“At the begi[nning of my royal rule, I…the town of the Sama]arians [I besieged, conquered…I led away prisoners…[The town I] re[built] …
Isaiah 24-27 is usually regarded by scholars as “apocalyptic”, and as later than the time of Isaiah of Jerusalem. However, we view their content as entirely applicable to the Assyrian crisis.[1] The “Zion triumphant” perspective of these chapters …
The problem with this text is: Why should Jesus be baptised? Commentators observe that John baptised with a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins but Jesus was sinless. Christadelphian solutions answer the problem by saying …
Professor James D.G. Dunn is a New Testament theologian who employs the exegetical methods of “historical context of meaning” and “conceptuality in transition,” to illuminate the first-century meaning of key New Testament texts that bear directly on the development of …
It has been argued by H. A. Whittaker that the terms “Assyria” and “Babylon” are confused in prophetic oracles.[1] The purpose of this article is to review the evidence presented by Whittaker for such confusion. We have noted …
Personification is a well recognised figure of speech. Wisdom is personified in Proverbs 8, and there are many examples of personification phrases. In this article, we will lay out a theoretical framework for handling the topic of personification. With this …
The question arises as to what a NT author or the first audience knew of scripture; what did an author require of his real audience and what did he imply in his use of scripture? This topic is vexed by …
It is often asserted that the divine purpose with Israel as a nation and with the Jewish people as a distinct ethnicity is a thing of the past – the nation has been replaced by the church.
In dealing with …
The impact that John the Baptist made on the national psyche cannot be underestimated; he is mentioned by the historian Josephus[1] and had a lasting effect on the early church as well as influencing the preaching of Jesus …
The manifestation of the Spirit features strongly at the beginning of Luke’s story. Luke narrates a prophetic witness in terms that evoke Joel 2:28-32, which predicts dreams, visions and prophecies for old men and young men, sons and daughters, handmaids …
In this article, we will evaluate the use of Psalm 79 in later scripture and other Jewish writings. Psalm 79 is part of the collection of the twelve Asaph Psalms attributed in recent studies to northern sources;[1] however, …
In the Old Testament the nation of Israel functioned as a microcosm of the heavenly sanctuary, with Yahweh enthroned in the midst of the nation. The Tabernacle was modelled on the Garden of Eden, which itself was symbolic of the …
The literature on Job is vast. The approach taken in this series is found in one other commentary,[1] and it is not the kind of reading offered by standard commentaries. Our view is that Job has something to …
Intertextual Bible study today is carried out with computer tools. The advent of these tools is changing the face of academic study of the Bible. Intertextual analysis has always taken place, i.e. the comparing of text with text, but this …
Jesus exorcised demons and used the language of exorcism. Many commentators would say that therefore Jesus believed in demons. However, it can not be simply assumed that Jesus believed in demons because he used the language of exorcism. He may …