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The Christadelphian eJournal of Biblical Interpretation, Vol 2, No 1

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      • Marginal Notes on Isa 66:1

      The question posed in Isa 66:1 is “Where is the house that ye build unto me?”. It is a text that is taken to firmly indicate the absence of the temple,[1] and it is used to prove that …

      Marginal Notes on 1 Cor 15:8-10

      The metaphor of “incarnation” is about location – it locates God on earth in a man. The Doctrine of the Trinity asserts that this is the person of God the Son. By way of contrast, the notion of “manifestation” is …

      Issues in Danielic Studies

      Introduction

      The book of Daniel presents exegetes with unique interpretive challenges. In virtually every field “problems” exist, whether they are historical “anomalies”, or problems regarding philology, morphology, semantics or dating. The relatively recent discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls and …

      Market Place Oracles

      Introduction

      If a prophet receives the word of the Lord and delivers it in the market place or in the king’s court or to a gathering of his disciples, the character of its oral delivery should be preserved in the …

      Deuteronomistic History in Romans 2 and 3 (Part One)

      Introduction

      Modern Pauline scholarship is in a state of flux between more traditional views and that of the “New Perspective” on Paul.[1] Within this debate Romans 2 and 3 play a crucial role.  N.T. Wright calls Romans 2 …

      The Restoration of Israel

      Introduction

      The subject of the restoration of Israel has been a focus of NT scholarship since the early nineties. This can be seen in writings such as those by N. T. Wright,[1] M. Fuller,[2] M. M. …

      The End of Eschatology

      B. Caird, in The Language and Imagery of the Bible, offers a discussion of the way in which the term “eschatology” has been used in Biblical scholarship up the 1980s.[1] He supplies various definitions which form a useful …

      Gadarene Demoniac

      Demonic Possession

      H. Twelftree reviews demonism in Jewish/Hellenistic Literature and summarizes as follows:

      “In Greek thought the word daimonion was used in a variety of ways: for a deity (Philo Vit. Mos. 1.276), a lesser deity (Plutarch Rom. 51), a …

      Demarcating Prophetic Oracles

      Introduction

      If we define a prophetic oracle “unit” to be any discrete amount of text, we can then define a prophetic oracle to be comprised of one or more such units collected together from the same circumstances of delivery. Such …