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This paper will examine women’s rights in Islam. The primary texts that will be analyzed include the Qur’an and its tafsir as well as the Hadith and Sira, as Muhammad’s treatment of women and his teachings on marriage and divorce are crucial to understanding the foundational Islamic view of women. Additionally, this paper will compare … Read more
The phenomenon of intertextuality continues to elicit interest among biblical scholars, and rightfully so. The resources now available to both students and seasoned scholars (inter alios, Beale 2012, Huffman 2024, Schnittjer 2024), backed also by the unprecedented power of digital textual investigation, will most likely maintain the research on intertextuality for years to come. The … Read more
This paper proposes that a moderate integration of the grammatical formation of the pronominal suffixes into first-year Biblical Hebrew grammar will facilitate the students’ mastery of them. First-year students might easily get frustrated by the different variations of pronominal suffixes. Understanding their general formation will minimize rote memorization. The first section of the paper will … Read more
Explores the historical development of Trinitarianism, situationally driven by the challenges of Arianism, as seen in Christology at the First Council of Nicea (325 AD) and Pneumatology at the First Council of Constantinople (381-383 AD). Includes the examination of developing Pneumatology post-Nicea, and how Arianism came to be seen as threatening, not just the divinity … Read more
§1 According to the Ante-Nicene Church, “the good Lord revealed everything to us beforehand” (Ep. Barn.); and “material things are typical of spiritual things” (Origen); a thought memorably stated by Augustine as “In the Old Testament the New is concealed, in the New the Old is revealed.” Agreeable to these classic sentiments is Carl R. … Read more
The role of women in the Gospels has become of increasing interest in both the academy and the church over the last fifty years, often guided by a key question: what is the attitude of Jesus toward women? Luke’s Gospel is central to the conversation for its inclusion of many female characters and is widely … Read more
The ancient Christian apologist, Hippolytus of Rome, emerges as one of very few in human history that bridges two distinct worlds of thought and influence. Beginning in or around the year 170 and ending in 235, the saint’s life was virtually split in half by two centuries. More significantly, Hippolytus was the first major Patristic … Read more
This study explores the historical and theological foundations of the Baptist Faith & Message (2000) by examining the relationship between some Southern Baptists’ self-identification as a non-creedal tradition and the significant role of creeds and confessions in shaping Southern Baptist beliefs and practices. This work highlights the historical dependence of Baptists on creeds for doctrinal … Read more
Paul’s first imperative in Romans—“consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus” (6:11)—is striking both in its nature and content. Why does Paul begin with an imperative of self-perception rather than action? And what does it mean to “consider” oneself in this way? This paper explores these questions through the lens … Read more
There are many forms of church government and polity, with just as many arguments