Category Archives: hermeneutics
On Examining A Story
James was found riding his bike every other Saturday. Allow me a moment to apply a term to this sentence that isn’t normally used: story*. You understand that the sentence is attributing an action (riding his bike) to a specific person (James) within a certain time frame (every other Saturday)—but this doesn’t have to be [...]
Philosophy Friday: A Conversation on Interpretation
“Human, I Am who I Am is speaking to you; Take up your quill and write what the Lord, the God of your Fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, commands you. First: These words—” “—um, wait one moment Sir.” “What’s that? Come again?” “Yes, I’m not quite sure how to get across what you’re talking about.” [...]
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Keeping Promises To Abraham In The OT
Look, I don’t plan to go into explicit detail on this post; there’s just too much: at least fifteen posts worth (that I really don’t want to write). I just want to paint in with broad strokes the way God’s Covenant to Abraham works out historically approaching the Incarnation. I’ll introduce some of these broad [...]
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Guest Blog:Source Catfish Criticism and the Rey Text
Dr. Mike Russell from In Search Of Arete recently wrote this excellent series on higher criticism based on a question I posted on Theologica. The posts poke fun while doing a great job explaining the different forms of higher criticism applied to Scripture. He graciously allowed me to repost them here at The Bible Archive. [...]
The Author to the Hebrews vs. Kenotic Arian View of Scripture