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When religious authority becomes corrupt, the consequences are devastating. The disturbing rape and murder of the Levite’s concubine in Judges 19 is the culmination of Israel’s descent into corruption and religious betrayal. The story of the nameless and voiceless woman sacrificed to a mob to protect a male religious leader stands in marked contrast to … Read more
One aspect of Discourse Analysis is examining how the logical “sense” relations between clauses are built up to form the flow and meaning of a discourse. These relations are always present in coherent discourse, and they are, at times signaled by linguistic devices known as discourse markers. It has been proposed that at the clause … Read more
The debate around what roles women can and cannot fill in the church appears to have reached a stalemate with both sides often supporting their positions based on texts in the Pauline corpus. Those advocating for greater inclusion of women frequently focus on Romans 16 and Galatians 3:28; those who limit women’s roles tend to … Read more
Haggai 2:10–14 presents an interesting torah case study: Can the garment of someone carrying holy meat transfer holiness to those with whom it comes into contact? For the priests, the answer is a simple “no,” most likely considering the realities of texts like Lev 6:24–30. On the contrary, though, can the touching of a dead … Read more
The poetic vividness of the book of Hosea is often attributed to the lexical and metaphorical characteristics of its language. However, its patterns of clause type usage also contribute to its unique semantic and pragmatic expressiveness. This study uses the theoretical perspective and analytical categories of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to explore the discourse-pragmatic meanings … Read more
This paper will argue that Acts 27:8–28:14 offers a plausible historical setting for the composition of Paul’s letter to Titus. After a concise review of the reasons why it is unlikely that Paul survived the appearance before Nero that Acts 27:24 anticipates, the paper’s argument will proceed in three steps. First, it will use the … Read more
Habakkuk’s assembly of eclectic genres presents a challenge for determining the book’s structure. In 1934, Lund and Walker argued chiasmus was the key to unlocking Habakkuk’s structure. Despite their painstaking attempts to map out chiasm in every single strophe of the book, succeeding scholars did not follow their lead. In 1979, Childs concluded most scholars … Read more
Historically, evangelical theology has been cautious in its engagement with psychological science. Besides some notable exceptions, on the whole, theologians shied away from a critical examination of empirical psychological research and instead focused more on applying psychology’s insights in a clinical or pastoral care setting. Things changed, however, with the rise of the positive psychology … Read more
This paper argues that the image of God is the authority and the enablement to rule creation. The properties of enablement are related to the image of Jesus Christ to which the church is to be conformed. This enablement includes the ontological property of rationality as well as morality, which exists in sufficient quantity to … Read more
Most Deuteronomy scholars acknowledge that this book offers more information on its own composition than any other book in the Hebrew Bible. Even so few critical scholars take at face value the book’s portrayal of Moses as the source of the oral addresses in the book or as the scribe who produced written versions of … Read more