Category: OT Theology
Peter Walking on the Water
Following the land/sea symbology of Israel/nations — when Jesus walks on water (as if it were land) do you think this is a type of the mystery revealed in the gospel (ie: the nations/waters are brought into God’s family/land)? Does Peter’s experience here foreshadow his initial comprehension of the mystery, followed by stumbling with the Judaizers (per Paul’s account in Galatians)?
Gerald McDermott Interviews Me on How to Read the Bible
My friend Gerald McDermott recently invited me onto his podcast to discuss my work on reading the Bible. You can listen to the episode here. There is also a transcript.
Theopolitan Hermeneutics
Grammatical Historical Exegesis and a Theopolitan Hermeneutic
What differences would you highlight when comparing the Theopolitan Hermeneutic and a traditional grammatical-historical approach? Also, would you make any significant distinctions between the Theopolitan Hermeneutic and Iain Provan’s “Seriously Literal” interpretive rubric that he lays out in his latest book The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture? He states that his Seriously Literal approach is “to read [Scripture] in accord with its various, apparent communicative intentions as a collection of texts from the past now integrated into one Great Story, doing justice to such realities as literary convention, idiom, metaphor, and typology or figuration.”
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The Junior Fellows Program: A Look at Trinity Term
Puzzling Further About Lot and His Daughters
I discuss further curious details of the perplexing story of Lot and his daughters in Genesis 19, following up my earlier episode.
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The Animals and Sacrifice
Lot’s Daughters Revisited
What is the significance of Lot’s daughters sleeping with their father after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah? It is clear to me that this is not presented as commendable, but why is it included?
Davenant Hall Biblical Wisdom Course
The Davenant Institute has just established Davenant Hall, which offers online courses on a range of different theological topics at the affordable price of $99 for ten hours’ of classes. For the first semester of classes, I will be teaching a course on the subject of Biblical Wisdom, which will, in a far-reaching engagement with the text of Scripture, explore the theme of wisdom as it runs throughout it. If you are interested, there is no time to lose: the registration deadline is the 23rd of this month and there are limited slots!
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