The birth narrative of Moses (Exod 2:1–10) recounts a critically important event that serves to introduce the story of God’s great deliverance of Israel from Egypt. Due to several ambiguities, however, numerous questions arise out of this narrative. Why is his mother not named here in Exodus 2? What is the significance of putting the … Read more
This paper will present the interpretative approach of my forthcoming commentary on the Song of Songs (Zondervan, ZECOT). The Song of Songs is a poetical wisdom composition in the tradition of Solomon that serves as the correlate to the approach of Proverbs 1–9, especially Proverbs 5 and 7. With this interpretation, the woman of the … Read more
Proverbs 29:18 highlights the critical importance of prophetic vision (ḥazon), meaning divine revelation or clarity from God. Solomon warns that without this vision, people “cast off restraint” or run wild, becoming ungoverned. This verse is closely tied to Proverbs 29:17, which emphasizes the value of discipline, particularly in parenting. Without a clear, God-given vision for … Read more
The thesis of this paper is that the poetic structure in Daniel 7:14 and 7:27 serves as declaration that the Son of Man’s Kingdom ‘will never end,’ demonstrating how the strategic use of NW Semitic poetry within narrative text functions to emphasize the eternal nature of his dominion. In particular, this study finds in Daniel … Read more
There is a certain universal recognition that the cry “the temple of YHWH” in Jeremiah 7.40 is condemned by both God and the prophet as a direct reflection of the deceptive words that the people had embraced. The most common interpretation of the verse simply reflects the idea that the call to the temple serves … Read more
To what was Jesus referring in the life of Abraham when he told the Jews, “Abraham your father rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw it and he was glad”? This dissertation will demonstrate the intentionality of Jesus’s choice of seeing words in John 8:56 that allude to Genesis 22:1-19. The intimation … Read more
This paper interprets the slavery-related laws in Exodus through a Worldview Hermeneutic framework grounded in two biblical worldview commitments: the Edenic telos of humanity and its corruption through the Fall. First, I establish a model for interpreting ethics within a comprehensive worldview. Following Christ’s interpretation of divorce law in Matthew 19, I argue that biblical … Read more
Since Porphyry introduced his supposition in the third century that there is no predictive element in Daniel’s prophecy, majority of scholars appealing to higher criticism have denied its historicity and authentic unity. Treating it as vaticinia ex eventu (prophecy after the event), they have argued that the book was completed by a pseudonymous writer or … Read more