The gospel story of the Rich Young Man (Matt 19:16-26) has been chosen, in order to demonstrate the importance of an approach that utilizes “inner-biblical exegesis”. The approach is not a purely academic exercise, but of relevance to anyone …
The Babylonian reading of Isaiah 40-48 dominates scholarship. To a considerably lesser extent you find a Babylonian reading of Isaiah 49-55, and there are still some who read Isaiah 56-66 through a Babylonian lens. Go back a hundred years …
“It is just a phase” is a common expression, and life does go through phases. In terms of writing, if you review the last fifty years of your local ecclesial magazines, you should notice that writers have phases. They appear …
The Internet with its websites, instant messaging, forums and e-mail, along with print-on-demand online publishing, has changed the possibilities in how written material is produced and circulated within the community. There is now no need (and this has been the …
Text and context: As Gen 2:7 and 2:18, 20-23 complementarily unveil the making of man and woman briefly overviewed …
It is frequently repeated in certain quarters that (“sodomites” [NKJV]; “homosexual offenders” [NIV]) refers only to certain pagan practices, and therefore does not include all forms of homosexual activity. This assertion is based upon the claim that has a narrower …
What does it mean to say “Scripture cannot be broken”. The verb is a common one () and the semantic field is broad: to loose, to untie, to break, to free, to abolish, to break up, to tear down, to …
Naming can be and is an act of dominion on occasion. For example, if the name-giver is God, a patriarch, or a king, the name given is part of the intention to shape the destiny of the one named. We …
The Nassouhi Prism is not a new discovery but it presents a problem of interpretation and historical reconstruction to Persian scholars. In an earlier article the prism was cited as evidence of the use of the name “Cyrus” in …
Scholars have identified traces of Babylonian cultural expression in Isaiah 40-48 and concluded that this locates the author in a Babylonian milieu. S. L. Peterson has reviewed the older scholarship on this question (up to 1975), and discussed the texts …
The themes of “numbering” (census-taking) and plague as a consequence of failure to pay the atonement price are found in the parallel accounts of David’s numbering of the people in 2 Samuel 24 and 1 Chronicles 21. Whenever a …
In the previous issue of the eJournal, T. Gaston[1] examined the tensions that led to the separation of Christianity as a distinct religion from Judaism based on the standard work, “The Partings of the Ways” by J. …
Moses saw the goodness of God “pass before him”, but that goodness was expressed in the proclamation of the divine name. What Moses heard were the divine attributes, grace and mercy, articulated with the imperfect-future I will be gracious and …
Egalitarian scholars identify anti-feminist bias in the later Greek manuscripts of the NT, and on this basis they speculate about such bias in earlier manuscripts; this paper examines one such presentation.
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This paper answers a question raised by John 1:3-4: What was made by the Word? The KJV renders the relevant text as follows:
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was …
“Dumbing Down” is an expression you hear in the media. It refers to TV programmes or magazine and newspaper articles that present their content in a simple rather than a complex way, cutting out detail, the use of complex ideas, …