The Divine Gift of Enduring Shame
When I was growing up, if you said âtriggerâ everyone thought about guns or Roy Rogerâs horse⊠maybe shooting guns while riding Roy Rogerâs horse. Today if you say âtriggerâ…
Biblical Theology with Legs
All things that wrangle with complications in Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic.
When I was growing up, if you said âtriggerâ everyone thought about guns or Roy Rogerâs horse⊠maybe shooting guns while riding Roy Rogerâs horse. Today if you say âtriggerâ…
Shared with permission from Criswell Theological Review The Art of Bible Translation. By Robert Alter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, 129 pp., $24.95, Hardback In The Art of Bible Translation,…
In part two of A Still Small Voice in the Cool of the Day we conclude our discussion on two often overlook storm theophanies, one in Genesis 3 and the…
In this video, I begin a discussion about two overlooked storm theophanies in the Bible, one in Genesis 3 when God comes on in judgement against Adam and Eve, and…
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……
Some have suggested that the “OF” case in Mark 1:1 in the phrase “Gospel of Jesus” is objective… meaning that Jesus is the gospel and not merely the preacher of…
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…
In our last episode, we introduced the bare bones essence of water baptism as an ancient covenant ratification act saturated with typical death imagery and corresponding OT interests in ordeal…
There is a certain beauty in translation. It is not only a science, but also an art… some would say not even a science. There are all kinds of philosophies…
There are many bingo phrases that Christian’s throw around at church that I am convinced they barely understand. If you ask them what their favorite terms mean, you will, more…
Though appearing over 1000x in Scripture, HOLY is a tricky notion to express in modern secular communities. Few raised in the modern western tradition today have the proper mental and…
In recent blogs, Iâve been considering the alluring and powerfully theological type-scene âForeigner at the Well.â It is common for people to develop in their entertainment of any form typical…
Being that few of my friends and neighbors have names that really mean something to us, (Other than Marsha Mello, Amanda Lynne, and Justin Case Yelle). I am intrigued about…
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…
Iâm not sure which is worse, the constant misuse of Proverbs 29:18a (KJV) or how many times I find myself saying, âThatâs not a good translation,â whenever I try to…
“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.…
In my previous blog, âWhatâs in a Name?â I started a discussion on the importance of paying attention to the meaning of names in the Bible. Sometimes what comes out…
One of the great things about learning Hebrew is the ability to share in the feel of the stories beyond raw content. Good writing uses language as more than just…
In our own western culture the connection between names and meaning is rather slight. I know this, in part, because I am one of those annoying, but well meaning, people…
At the risk of sounding like a petulant child⊠well, a petulant child that complains about the frequent misuse of ancient Hebrew in weekly church servicesâŠ. Which now that I…