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Beginning with Ewald, Wellhausen, and Stade, scholars have hypothesized that Genesis 4, particularly vv. 17–25, functions as a national etiology of the Kenite people, with Cain as their eponymous ancestor. In the past decade, David Carr and John Day, among others, have offered more thorough defenses of this viewpoint. This etiological reading is based on … Read more
Intertextual approaches have long been the primary interpretive angel for understanding the significance of the closely-related feeding of the five thousand and walking on water pericopae in Mark. Interpreters hear echoes of the OT in the rich imagery and themes found in both passages. An interpretive key may be found in the narrator’s comment at … Read more
As has been demonstrated by Michael A. G. Haykin, friendship and personal relationships played a pivotal role in the advancement of the Particular Baptist cause in the long eighteenth century. The founding of the Baptist Missionary Society and the initial sending of William Carey depended upon a close network of personal relationships that rallied for … Read more
Interpreters throughout the centuries have investigated the intertextual connections between Isa 2:1-4 and Mic 4:1-5, in which the prophets paint a nearly utopian eschatological picture of Israel’s restoration to the land and reconciliation with the nations. Significantly, weapons of war are exchanged for implements of peace, and war between nations is abolished. While much has … Read more
The problem with experience is that it is so subjective. Fifty people can experience the same objective event and come away from with fifty uniquely nuanced subjective experiences of that event. This phenomenon becomes particularly acute in our attempts to form meaning from our experiences, for we are not simply wanting to come to clarity … Read more
Humans share much in common—the struggle with sexuality is no exception. Crucial questions beg for response: How should we understand sexuality? Do objective standards for sex exist? If so what or who determines those standards? Is biological sex and gender identity the same thing or different things? How do worldviews impact how sexuality is viewed? … Read more
In the context of 1-2 Kings, the prophet Elisha serves as the Spirit-empowered man of God who walks with God, represents God, and points the way to covenant faithfulness with God through word and deed. Elisha shows Israel who God really is, particularly when compared to the false gods the people are choosing to worship, … Read more
With traditional powers of Egypt and Hatti diminishing at the end of the Late Bronze Age, the sitz im leben in Canaan shifted as well. The changes in the Late Bronze – Iron Age transition reflect a shifting power structure considerably different from those present in the days of Egyptian hegemony. The Pharaoh Merenptah’s attack … Read more
When Bible readers come to the book of Joshua in the Old Testament they find Israel’s newest military leader, Joshua, the son of Nun, is set to replace the greatest prophet in Israel’s history, Moses. He is to lead the battered and weak wilderness-wandering Israelites triumphantly against the Canaanites within the land promised to their … Read more
This paper explores the functional relationship between James 1:1–27 and 2:1–13. The book of James is broadly recognized as a cousin or descendant of the wisdom literature. That being said, James will be viewed from the perspective of moral formation or ethical education through the vehicle of moral imagination. In her 2017 article, “Wisdom’s Imagination: … Read more