Matthew’s account of Jesus, Peter and their miraculous payment of the Temple tax is a classic literary puzzle. Providentially, the Bible’s own covenant-literary matrix is its key.
To understand where John is coming from in his first epistle, we must understand where he is. John has brought us with him into...
Why are there seven bowls of wrath in Revelation 16, and from where did they come? Those familiar with the Old Testament will relate...
The account of Israel’s sin with the golden calf is flanked by the instructions for the Tabernacle and the construction of the Tabernacle. Israel breaks...
Wheels Within Wheels The structure of the Bible resembles something which was grown rather than built, composed rather than assembled. Its employment of “structure-as-sign” at every level from...
The verb “descend” is used ten times in the Revelation, often describing something coming down from heaven. Is there a pattern in the order...
When the prophet Nathan told David of a rich man who had stolen and killed a poor man’s sheep (2 Samuel 12), David’s judgment...
Richard Bauckham points out that in John’s Gospel, Jesus has seven, relatively extended, private conversations. When gathered together as a single sequence, these appear...
The Hidden Dimension In many fields of scientific study, the apparent complications and contradictions are dispelled once the internal logic is perceived. Biblical hermeneutics is...
Psalm 82 begins with the Lord in his “house of lords,” but He is there because they have been doing what is right in their...