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Music plays a vital role in the pivotal points in Saul’s career. In his election as the inaugural king of Israel, he is told by the prophet Samuel to join a procession of prophets “coming down from the high place with lyres, timbrels, pipes, and harps being played before them” (1 Sam 10:5). In 1 … Read more
Paul explicitly states in his salutation in his letter to the Romans his purpose to “evangelize” Rome, and he states after the body of the letter his desire to proclaim the gospel of Christ in Spain. Part of Paul’s theological emphases for his practical purpose of evangelism concerns instructing the Roman believers concerning God’s election … Read more
Based on the biblical evidence, especially from the New Testament, this paper will argue that Christ’s coming, i.e. his incarnation, earthly ministry, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, has renewed many things including singleness. Through Christ’s mission, God created a new humanity (Eph 2), to whom are given a new covenant, new command, new identity, and new … Read more
The relationship and integration of different religious traditions within the Hebrew Bible remains a vexing question. Recent studies in Jeremiah have explored aspects of wisdom and so-called wisdom traditions, such as its structural and rhetorical role binding together chapters 7–10 and its theological connections to creation and the created order more broadly. However, the specific … Read more
Scholars hotly debate whether Romans 9:20–23 depicts God as unconditionally electing individuals to salvation. One text that has played a surprisingly small role in this debate is 2 Timothy 2:20–21, where Paul uses imagery very similar to Romans 9:20–23. The present study surveys the neglect of 2 Timothy 2:20–21, discusses the reasons for it, and … Read more
Thomas’ Smail’s provocatively titled book, The Forgotten Father, claims that both the Jesus movement and the charismatic movement eclipse a theology of God the Father, thus, he is forgotten. T.F. Torrance believes Smail is correct and seeks to correct this forgetting by offering deep reflection on God the Father. As helpful as Torrance is, his … Read more
The account of YHWH’s dynastic promise to David in 2 Sam 7 (= 1 Chr 17) is a watershed moment in salvation history and a focal point in biblical theology. Understandably, most interpreters give special attention to YHWH’s oracle in vv. 4–17 (= 1 Chr 17:4–15). However, the response in vv. 18–29 (= 1 Chr … Read more
Revelation, possibly more so than any book in the canon of scripture, contains nightmarish visions. Its pages are populated by death and destruction on a global scale, literal rivers of blood, and monsters of mythic proportions. Yet, amidst the horror, John claims that his apocalypse blesses those believers who hear it and take it to … Read more
Recent scholarship has paid attention to the value of ancient Israel’s lament as a voice of faith, but there have been disagreements on its historical origin. Based on structural similarities between Israel’s lament and those of the ancient Near East (ANE), some scholars have suggested that Israel borrowed this genre from its neighboring cultures late … Read more
In Matthew Bates’s influential Salvation by Allegiance Alone (2017) and Gospel Allegiance (2019), the content of the gospel is said to consist of a series of 8 or 10 “Christ events.” Thus, for Bates, Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox all agree on the gospel’s content. This article argues that Bates’s definition would not differentiate between Paul’s … Read more