When God Commanded Israel to Break His Law
There is an interesting twist, if you’ll pardon the pun, in the tassel command from Numbers 15:38-41 when it is woven (sorry I just can’t stop myself) into the new…
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Good Tassels Gone Bad
The giving of the tassel to the Israelites in Numbers 15:38-41 is a powerful symbol of God’s love and acceptance, a divine gift to aid them in their struggles against…
A Colored Past to Dye For
I’ll never forget a visit I made many years ago to a full scale temple model with my wife. The woman running the guided tour was just chuck full of……
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Jesus, The Prophet of Prophets
In our last two posts on the incident at Nain, we discussed the importance of geographical study as something deeper than map investigations, and the importance of typology for an…
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What the Woman Caught in Adultery Shouldn’t Teach Us: Law, Grace & Bad Hermeneutics
John 8:7 is especially popular with non-Christians who resent any suggestion within Christianity that they are sinners in need of salvation. It is usually paraphrased, “He who is without sin,…
Wherever Two or Three are Gathered in His Name, They are Almost Certain to Misinterpret Matthew 18:20
Mat 18:20 ” For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” We may as well get this out of the way right up…
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Getting out the Pagan Within Part 1: A Biblical Theology of I Samuel 15:27-31
Even a brief scan of 1 Samuel 15 should be enough to perplex the average reader. Here YHWH commands Samuel to command Saul to utterly destroy a people called the…
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So, a Donkey and an Ox Wander into a Parallel: Exodus 23:3-6
To the Hebrews context mattered a good deal. Our own struggles to understand the use to which some New Testament writers put certain Old Testament texts may make us doubt…
Lordy, Lordy, Look What’s Forty
Maybe it’s just me, but a lot of uber-Evangelicals seem kind of nervous. Maybe its from watching too many horror movies, but I tend to doubt it. Now, I am…
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A Crazy Proposal About Jesus and the Woman at the Well
Okay, as promised, this is the last post on the popular type-scene āForeigner at the Well.ā I hope it will be rewarding enough to warrant a gander. No, you donāt…
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Saul Loses the Girl and Gains a Doomed Throne
In recent posts, Iāve been considering biblical variations on the type-scene, āForeigner at the Well.ā Perhaps you are tired of reading about itā¦ you have been reading about it havenāt…
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Whatās Good for the Gander is Good for the Goose: āThe Foreigner at the Wellā in Ruth
In recent blogs, Iāve been considering the alluring and powerfully theological type-scene āForeigner at the Well.ā It is common for people to develop in their entertainment of any form typical…
Iāll Have One āForeigner at the Wellā with a Twist
In my recent post, āWells: The Singlesā Bars of the Ancient Near East,āāI just call āem like I see āem Folks! Donāt judge meāI discussed the beauty of the ancient…
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Wells: The Singles’ Bars of the Ancient Near East
One of my great-uncles, a true good-ol’boy from west Texas, once said to my great-grandmother, “Mamma, it’s hard to find a good woman like you out there.” She replied, “There…
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Hallelujah: Call “of” Praise or Call “to” Praise
After discussing, in my recent blog post, “Hallelujah is a Sentence,” that the biblical “term” Hallelujah has grammar and that we should both be aware of that grammar and use…
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Without a Vision, People are Certain to Misinterpret Proverbs 29:18
Iām not sure which is worse, the constant misuse of Proverbs 29:18a (KJV) or how many times I find myself saying, āThatās not a good translation,ā whenever I try to…
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A Prophet in Nain: Luke’s Portrait of Jesus in 7:11-16
In my previous post “The Inanity of Nain,” I introduced the importance of the physical association of Jesus’ raising of the widow’s son with Elisha’s wondrous raising of the Shunammite’s.…
The Inanity of Nain
Geography is part of historical context. Yaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwnnnnnnn!!!!! No! Not just maps and boring stuff, but real places and the experience of living and moving and having one’s being there. Like…
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Why the Word “God” Makes me Uncomfortable
“Whose an Elohim? Raise your hand.” One of the problems with being a biblical theologian is the discomfort I suffer whenever someone’s question crosses lines between biblical and “Christian” categories.…