The dating of Revelation is not merely an academic pursuit, for unlike any other NT writing, the date assigned to the Apocalypse has major interpretive implications; establishing the correct date is therefore crucial for developing an understanding of the …
A common hermeneutic in Biblical Studies is to consider a text alongside its historical context (i.e. “What might the text have meant to its initial readers?”). Many would advocate this hermeneutic for the Book of Revelation and indeed much …
Speakers are not necessarily good writers and writers are not necessarily good speakers. The apostle Paul was evidently a good writer but not a good speaker (2 Cor 10:10); Moses was a good writer but somewhat diffident about speaking (Exod …
Dear Editor,
Thanks for the latest edition of EJournal which I enjoyed reading. The omission of ‘scholarship’ content certainly makes for easier reading but I realize that footnotes and reference to scholars is necessary for a complete treatment of the subject.
Your …
The objective for this book is to present reasons for seeking God and for believing in the God of the Bible, Jesus as his son and the saviour of men and women, and the Bible as the Word of God. …
He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet. Isa 41:3 (KJV)
The reference to “by the way that he had not gone with his feet” is a puzzle to commentators. …
Sceptics objecting to the size of Noah’s Ark frequently point to smaller 19th century timber ships which were unseaworthy due to their large size, such as the 19th century American schooners ‘Wyoming’ and ‘Great Republic, two of the largest all …
The Old Testament scholar, K. A. Kitchen, offers a standard discussion of the genealogy of Genesis 5 in relation to the king lists and reign lengths of Mesopotamian monarchs. In Sumerian and Akkadian king lists, for the period prior to …
There are many characteristics of the gospels that indicate their accuracy; additionally, there are a small number of well-known so-called inaccuracies. Positive assessments of the nuts and bolts of the gospel records have been written by conservative scholars. Since the …
Various OT accounts use “Spirit of the Lord”.[1] In the collected state of these traditions, they combine to produce a composite picture of the Spirit of the Lord as an “agent” in the narrative—a kind of hypostatization …
The hymn[1] in Philippians 2 (vv. 6-11) is usually employed to establish both the pre-existence and incarnation of Christ. Scholars believe that the hymn is based either on Adam (Adam Christology) or on Isaiah’s Suffering Servant. The …
A point raised by those egalitarians who do not see Gal 3:28 as an ‘equality text’ is the simple fact that the verse says nothing about equality. The subject is unity, ‘all one’, not equality, ‘all equal’, as has …
Is there a distinctive Christadelphian method of interpretation? More broadly, is there a distinctive method of interpretation shared by groups that have a similar unitarian and Abrahamic centred faith? This second question partly answers the question: a unitarian and Abrahamic …
In November 2009, Robert M. Bowman proposed a debate on the Trinity between himself and any non-Trinitarian challenger at his blogsite (www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog). Bowman is a well known evangelical author in the USA who specialises in Christology and has written …
“This is a story”. The words emblazoned across the back cover that attempt to pre-empt and placate any of the expected religious fervour. It is true that this is a work of fiction and, in one sense, makes no claims …
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. John 17:5 (KJV)
The following points may be noted,
“glorify [something]”, an imperative expression used for appealing …
Hebrew:
Transliteration: YHWH ´élöhênû YHWH ´eHäd Word-for-word translation: Yahweh God of us, Yahweh one King James’ Version: The LORD our God is one LORD
Aim: Is ´eHäd in this text about ‘unity’ or …
Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? Matt 24:45 (NKJV)
When we read a text like this a number of questions suggest themselves. Does …
Numbers 24 Psalm 110 2 Samuel 23 vv. 3–4 ‘Said’ = ‘ne’um’ (x3); incl. ‘said the man’ = Heb. nü´ùm haGGeºber. (Cf. Prov 30:1 ‘said the man’). v. 1 ‘Said Yahweh’ = Heb. ne’um Yahweh v. 1 ‘Said’ = ‘ne’um’ …
It is said that a new age in the purpose of God began with Jesus Christ. This age has been called various things, for instance, “The Christian Dispensation”. People have identified various starting points for this new age including, …
And when the vultures (/LXX) came down on the carcasses (/LXX), Abram drove them away. Gen 15:11 (NKJV).
Then they asked him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpse () is, there the vultures (.) will gather”. Luke …
The Christadelphian community does not support biblical and historical research that would be supportive to its ethos. Individuals may embark on post-graduate research and obtain secular funds for fees and maintenance and they may research topics of value to the …
It is well known that Christadelphian books cannot be bought in Christian bookshops or in mainstream bookshops. In the 1980s, a Christadelphian imprint, Aletheia Books, tried to break into this market in the UK, but success was limited to only …
The meaning of the Greek word kephalē (most commonly translated ‘head’), in 1 Cor 11:3 has been debated extensively among evangelical commentators for years. However, among professional lexicographers there is no debate. Standard professional lexicons do not include the meaning …
This book is worth having on the shelf because it brings together in one convenient volume the “worship” texts that an orthodox Christian is likely to use when arguing for the deity of Christ. Dunn himself says in the conclusion …
Dever argues that the Israelites were not external conquerors, but ethnic Canaanites who at some point separated themselves from the larger Canaanite population to distinguish themselves as a separate ethnic, social, and religious group.
To commence, Dever provides a detailed …
My aim in this article is to show that the usual translation of the Hebrew /hyTh as ‘was’ in Gen 1:2a (as above) is correct and that ‘became’ is not justified either for certain Gap theorists or for any …
This article originated as an exegesis of Ex 6:3, a verse that employs the epithet El Shadday (translated as “God Almighty”) and the Yahweh name. It was realised that in order to do the subject justice the epithet required …
In 2003, the Evangelical Quarterly published an article entitled “The Christadelphians and the Doctrine of the Trinity”.[1] The article was written by J. Clementson, a former Christadelphian turned evangelical, with the expressed aim of finding “constructive alternatives” …