In the English New Testament, “Judas” and “Judah” as personal and corporate names are a helpful differentiation. But when it comes to Judas Iscariot, his Hebrew name links him “liturgically” to...
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...
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...
The final book of the Old Testament and last of “The Twelve” minor prophets is more intelligible, brilliant and beautiful once its internal logic...
Like all the best stories, the strange account of the disobedient prophet in 1 Kings 13 says so much more because of what it does...
The Fruit of Righteousness “In this shedding of immaturity, in obedience to the Covenant, Man is to outdo both tree and serpent.” When you...