God’s grief over the demise of Moab brings a final kindness so heartbreaking that it is entirely misunderstood. For the introduction to this section (Isaiah 15-16), see Isaiah’s Kill...
Like Sodom, Moab’s delightful land of pastures and vineyards would be miserably laid waste. For the introduction to this section (Isaiah 15-16), see Isaiah’s...
Instead of being destroyed by the scepter of the lion of Judah, Moab was invited to join his peaceable kingdom. For the introduction to...
The God of Abraham was promising to consecrate Lot’s firstborn, but the sacrifice would not be substitutionary. For the introduction to this section (Isaiah...
Isaiah subtly and ironically subverts Genesis 2 in order to ridicule Moab’s origin. Mo-ab means “Who’s your father?” For the introduction to this section...
My latest at Theopolis Institute Isaiah 21 can only be understood in the light of its placement in the architecture of the second “volume”...
The three stages of this serpentine rod are not only the increasing strength of the threat to the Philistines, but also the “birth order”...
The “fall of Lucifer” is the height of irony because it runs the pattern of the Tabernacle backwards. The king’s climb from the lowest...
In a grim satire, Sheol is portrayed as a negative world, a moon shadow that parodies the lunar calendar of Israel but where the...
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The barrenness of Babylon is depicted through an inversion of Solomon’s Canticle. Instead of pasture there is wilderness; instead of the merry songs of...