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.
N. T. Wright introduces a thesis in his The Climax of the Covenant that,
“what he [Paul] says about Jesus and about the Law reflects his belief that the covenant purposes of Israel’s God had reached their climatic …
One of the crooked foundations that lies at the base of many misleading and unhelpful “Christian” ideas is a faulty assumption about what the Bible is and what it is for. Some of the more extreme results stemming from such …
A new book by an ex-Christadelphian, Nicholas P. Lunn, is on the ending of the Gospel of Mark (Mk 16:9-20). Dr. Lunn is a translation consultant with Wycliffe and a Baptist. The paperback edition is available on Amazon and also …
Isa 40:7[1] and 13 do not present the Spirit of the Lord as an agent, contrary to some translations of ruach. Isa 40:7 asserts that “the wind of the Lord blows upon it”, referring to grass and flowers …
There was a very public divorce at the time of Jesus and John the Baptist. Herod Antipas was married to a Nabataean princess and they had lived together ‘a great while’ (Josephus Antiquities 18.109), some think for close to thirty …
There were only four of us: Ian [now Brother Ian] Cockcroft, of Walkden, Manchester [now of King’s Heath]; Jean King of Birkenhead [now Sister Jean …
We are looking at a block of parables starting at Matt 13:44. Although it is tempting to follow the narrator and start the block at Matt 13.36 where the narrator describes the movement of Jesus and the disciples into the …
For a long time, it has seemed to me that 1 Cor 8:6 is the most explicit statement of biblical unitarianism that one can find in the NT. It seemed like the obvious choice for the title page of …
Philippians 2:5-11 is a well-known passage for ‘establishing’ the pre-existence and/or the deity of Christ. It has been the subject of extensive commentary by Christian scholars and for non-Trinitarians it has been viewed as a ‘problem passage’.[1] …
In this series so far we have been looking at ad hominem arguments. These are arguments against the person – you. In an argument, your opponent might appeal to authority. They may cite a scientific authority, a scholar or …
This article will examine the language and composition history of Qoheleth. The acceptable face of German scholarship to conservatively minded Bible students in the Victorian Era, Franz Delitzsch, once stated,
“If Koheleth was written in Solomon’s day, a history …
One thing is likely to happen in 1880, and that is, the appearance of the new version of the Bible, upon which so many able men have been so long a time engaged. In an article in the Churchman, …
A characteristic of scholarship is that it is mostly irrelevant to ordinary life. A journal like this one is just a small endeavour in the run of things. It really just speaks to the intellectual dimension of the Christian life. …
“And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.”
Gen 10:25 is sometimes understood as a scientific comment …
The expression ‘in those days’ occurs 31x in the Hebrew Scriptures. Our question is: when are those days? Are they the days that have just been recounted? Are they days coming up about which we are going to be told?
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In an earlier article,[1] “The Blind Servant”, we presented an individual (not a collective) interpretation of the ‘Who is blind but my Servant?’ as a sarcastic question about Hezekiah along the lines of ‘So, who is blind, …
Our first stop this Issue is at Ritmeyer Archaeological Design advising in brief recent Blog updates:
For those using Accordance Bible Software Brother Ritmeyer advises on The Virtual Bible – a New Visual Resource[1] Posted on July 13, …
Our final review of 2015, from the list Dr Sheldrake suggested to me, is of Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe’s next to most recent work. Sir Barry Cunliffe is the oldest, most eminent, and the most well-placed of our reviewees. His …
The parables of Matt 13.44-52 are unique to Matthew’s gospel and their interpretation has been subject to much debate. They conclude with the teaching of the ‘old and new treasures’. This teaching is the climax of the parables, the last …
I think the broad scholarly consensus is that the notion of the pre-existence of Jesus is not to be found in the Synoptic Gospels.[1] Certainly these gospels do not include any narrative of events that occur before …
Wikipedia [Sept 2015] introduces intellectual honesty as follows:
Intellectual honesty is an applied method of problem solving, characterized by an unbiased, honest attitude, which can be demonstrated in a number of different ways:
One’s personal beliefs do …
The word ‘ephah’ is an English transliteration of the Hebrew . It is a measure for a quantity of dry cereals.
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your …
The ‘king’ of Qoheleth is Uzziah (otherwise known as Azariah) and his history is recorded in 1 Kgs 15:1-8 and 2 Chronicles 26.[1] The prophet Isaiah (1:1) was his contemporary as were the northern prophets Amos and …
The Internet is not going to go away. The thought might seem odd. The point though is that smartphones, laptops and tablets have changed ecclesias and individuals because of the quick and easy access they afford to ‘knowledge’. The era …
To produce a literal translation of the Bible it is desirable to find an adequate word for today, retaining contextual sense and conveying as nearly as possible the original thought of the writer: as literal as possible, as idiomatic …
The purpose of this article[1] is to argue a Christadelphian complementarian case, which advocates the ‘traditional’ role of not allowing a woman to teach (but there will be a twist). Such a view is contrary to the …
Paul’s words in 1 Tim 2:11-15 are at the crux of a modern pastoral issue but also present many interpretative challenges quite aside from their practical application. The egalitarian Bruce Barron writes,
I think it can be fairly stated …
The current state of Christadelphia is weak in matters of study. We must be honest with ourselves and judge ourselves (both collectively and individually). We once prided ourselves on being students of the “word” but our prophetic interpretations are mired …
The Sabbath was ‘made’ for man and it is the common Greek for ‘to make, do’. The first thing to realise is that this verb is being quoted from Genesis 1, but we might well ask how can the Sabbath …
We might well ask, when thinking about this verse (and others), why didn’t matters come to an end in the first century? The fact is that both Revelation and Daniel could have been completely fulfilled (i.e., the kingdom established) in …