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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
An important but underrecognized aspect of the reception of Nicaea I (325) at subsequent ecumenical councils is the fifth-century concept of the “sufficiency of Nicaea.” The Acts of Ephesus I (431) contain a decree (the so-called Canon 7.00 of Ephesus) that prohibits anyone from writing a different creed as a rival to the one promulgated … Read more
*This proposal is a co-authored submission by Sungmin Park and Tomas Bokedal , each submitting individually as per the submission guidelines. The present paper discusses extrinsic and intrinsic textual dimensions involved in the emergence of the canonical sub-units that formed the New Testament, and the respective relationships between these dimensions. After an introductory section on … 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
As with any major transformative technological advance, be it writing, the alphabet, printing press, industrial revolution, digital computers, Internet, and now with Artificial Intelligence [AI], some have been reticent and resistant to adopting technology and, at times, even deprecated such advances. What is AI? Why is it so significant? What potential does it have? This … Read more
William Perkins was one of the best-selling and most influential English divines of the Elizabethan era (1558-1603). While certain topics in Perkins’s corpus like predestination and conscience have received extensive attention from scholars, his use of creeds and church history has seen little dedicated discussion. A few exceptions to this paucity include one unpublished dissertation … Read more
What has gone so terribly wrong in Ephesus that Paul feels compelled to write the longest marriage code in the New Testament? First Peter only has seven verses about marriage. Colossians only has two. Titus only has two. Why does Ephesians have thirteen? This paper, which presents the argument of my book (Artemis, Eve, and … 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
In this paper, I offer a reading of Genesis 1-11 through the lens of Kelly Kapic’s theological reflections on the themes of creation, anthropology, embodiment, time, and limits. I attempt to integrate the discipline of textual exegesis with the discipline of Christian theology and to apprehend a biblical theology of time, incarnation, and weakness as … Read more
New Testament text and manuscript studies intersect with a variety of disciplines—including paleography, art history, exegesis, paratext, linguistics, and conservation—to enrich our understanding of how the New Testament was transmitted and received within its broader historical context. Each of these fields is itself interdisciplinary, drawing on historical sources from diverse cultures and periods. Given the … Read more