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 …