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Whether or not to translate the clause-initial καί in the Greek New Testament may seem like a minor decision, but it is anything but trivial. At stake is not only linguistic precision but also the integrity of narrative flow, logical coherence, and even theological clarity. While a strictly literal translation philosophy might preserve every instance … Read more
Brent Strawn, in The Old Testament is Dying, utilizes a linguistic analogy to describe the Old Testament as a dying language, undergoing various stages of pidginization and creolization. I apply his pidgin and creole language to contemporary worship music, the American evangelical corpus (henceforth AEC), to assess the shift in conceptual worship language in the … Read more
Discomfort with imprecatory psalms is sometimes mitigated by appealing to Psalm 83:17[MT] as evidence that sometimes, or perhaps often, psalmists sought repentance rather than destruction for God’s enemies: “Cover their faces with shame so that they will seek your name, Lord” (CSB). Building on my recent argument for an Assyrian era setting for Psalm 83,[1] … Read more
To the credit of Walter Ong (Orality and Literacy, 1982), and Werner Kelber (The Oral and the Written Gospel, 1983)—along with other recent scholars who have advanced the study of biblical orality—the oral culture of the biblical world has become more widely known. But the full implications of orality studies (now expanded to media studies) … Read more
Scholars have long debated the precise nature of the “sin unto death” in 1 John 5:16-17. Commentators regularly note that certain Old Testament sins led to the death penalty (see for example, Smalley, Word Biblical Commentary, 2007), but they usually dismiss these capital sins as the Old Testament context for John’s “sin unto death.” Instead, … Read more
In several of her writings, including God, Sexuality, and the Self, Sarah Coakley has argued the existence in the early Church of a distinctive approach to trinitarianism that was founded in Paul’s argument in Romans 8:9-30. This approach centered on Spirit-led prayer in which the pray-er was invited into participation in the divine life of … Read more
Taking methodological cues from Richard Hays’ important monograph, Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (1989, 20), many interpreters have adopted Hays’ figure of metalepsis as a way of understanding how “unstated or suppressed (transumed) points of resonance” from a source text might inform the use of the OT in the NT. This paper … Read more
In his Editio Princeps Mercati dedicates a space to discuss the relationship and textual profile of the last two columns of the Hexapla of the Psalms extant in Ra 1098 (Ambrosiano O. 39 sup.). His discussion is extensive and detailed. In this proposal the main objective is to review Mercati’s original question of whether the last … Read more
The identification of נגיד (ruler or leader) in Daniel 9:25–26 is contested. Some scholars believe they are one and the same person (see Gentry 2018; Steinmann 2008), whereas others identify two different people (Hamilton 2014; Harmann 2007). Gentry (Gentry 2018, 623) appeals to the lack of “contextual signs” indicating a change of subject. Hamilton (Hamilton … Read more
As the Church commemorates the 1700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed, this paper explores the dynamic nature of ecclesial identity, especially given Luther’s penetrating insight, “Thank God, a seven-year-old child knows what the Church is, namely, the holy believers and lambs who hear the voice of their Shepherd.” The investigation delves into ecclesial identity through … Read more