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The Bible identifies Hezekiah as a good king and a cultic reformer. However, archaeological discoveries related to Hezekiah (including his royal seals) muddle the portrait of the king. While the seals attest to the historicity of the king by name, they also include foreign iconography. At first glance, the imagery (scarabs, winged sun disks, and … Read more
The use of earlier Scripture in Hosea has long been debated. An acute point within the larger debate is the use of exodus themes in Hosea (cf. Jerry Hwang, 2021, 2016; Derek Bass, 2021, 2008; Joshua Moon, 2018; Ehud Ben Zvi, 2005; Steve McKenzie, 1979; Hans Walter Wolff, 1974). Scholars have tended to give more … Read more
From the Second Temple period to the end of the first Christian millennium, the text of the Hebrew Bible was studied and preserved in two major centres of Jewish scholarship: Tiberias and Iraq (Bavel). The text-forms preserved in these centres differ one from the other in many hundreds of loci. Moreover, each centre developed its … Read more
As is well known, the reading and interpretation of the first three verses of the Hebrew Bible has been the subject of an ongoing debate among scholars for centuries. This continues with the two most recent critical commentaries by David M. Carr, who reads v. 1 is a dependent temporal clause (“At the beginning when … Read more
This paper aims to elucidate the dynamic functions of the grammatical person shift in Hosea. Although linguistics has advanced the understanding of the person shift these years, the research of person shift in biblical Hebrew according to its discourse and rhetoric functions is still in need (few studies have probed this phenomenon as a subordinate … Read more
1 Timothy includes over a dozen compound words that are found nowhere else in the New Testament, with many of these also being absent from the Septuagint and rare in other contemporary literature. I will argue that Paul followed a pattern established in 1 Corinthians 6:9 of using compounds words, like ἀρσενοκοίτης, to appeal to … Read more
One surefire way to furrow the brows and purse the lips of Christian artists is to use the term ‘Christian art’. Such terminology immediately evokes images of quasi-Christian kitsch, or the simplistic licks of much contemporary Christian rock. For many artists, the notion of Christian art is closely associated with a hyper-modern, lowest-common-denominator view of … Read more
The corpus of the Former Prophets concludes with a scene of changing clothes, as the fate of Jehoiachin king of Judah at the hands of Evil-merodach of Babylon is related. What are the personal, and national, implications of this one-off experience for the king, prior to the acknowledgment of his ongoing provision? This paper will … Read more
Renowned Baptist Historian Albert Wardin described the Philippine Baptists as a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces are challenging to fit together. Due to the scarcity of Filipino Baptist history writings, this paper strives to augment the Baptist narratives of the Philippines. Hence, this paper aims to offer a glimpse of the Baptist movement in the Philippines, … Read more
Several recent works on secularity and Christian faith have noted similarities between the challenges to Christianity in the second century and current tensions between Christian faithfulness and rising secularity (Michael Kruger, Christianity at the Crossroads, viii; Charles Taylor, A Secular Age, 3–4; Carl Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, 452–454). Given that … Read more