(Guest Post by Ben. T) This weekend I finally made my way through Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul by Richard Hays. As expected, the book was loaded with helpful insights from a seasoned Pauline scholar. Surprisingly, though, I found the book personally challenging on a number of practical levels. Hays writes as [...]
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Learning from Paul
Posted: April 5, 2011 by Ben T. in Bible StudyTags: Eschatology, Intertextuality, Pauline Studies, Preaching, Richard Hays
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What is Rhetorical Criticism?
Posted: March 30, 2011 by Ben T. in Bible StudyTags: Hebrew Bible, Historiography, Ideology, Patricia Tull, Rhetorical Criticism
(Guest Post by Ben T.) Rhetorical criticism, like many approaches to biblical interpretation, can be understood and applied in a number of ways to both Old Testament and New Testament studies. For our purposes, rhetoric among the ancient Greeks can be concisely understood as the “art of effective communication.” Does this so-called rhetorical analysis provide [...]
What is Historiography?
Posted: March 22, 2011 by Ben T. in Bible StudyTags: Hermenetics, Historical Narrative, History
(Guest Post by Ben T.) Historiography, properly understood, is the study of the way in which history is (and has been) written. The term “history” itself proves at times a confusing concept as it can refer to either the bare events of the past or the written (and oral) records of those events. When studying [...]
History, Narrative, and the Book of Judges
Posted: March 15, 2011 by Ben T. in Bible StudyTags: Book of Judges, History, Narrative, Old Testament
(Guest Post by Ben T.) Like many, I grew up with a steady diet of Old Testament Bible stories. David, Noah, Adam and Eve, Abraham, and even Samson were all quasi-familiar characters in what appeared at the time as a disorganized conglomeration of ancient events. How these individual stories related to one another, and what [...]
Jesus the “I AM” (Part 2)
Posted: October 16, 2009 by Michael Dewalt in Bible Study, Christ, God, Theology[Posted by Benjamin Thocher] So what is the point? What is our take away, as contemporary Christians, from Jesus calling himself the “true vine”? Jesus tells the disciples that they are branches of the “true vine” and that they are to “abide in him.” In verse 4 Jesus says “Abide in me, and I in [...]
Jesus the “I AM” (Part 1)
Posted: October 15, 2009 by Michael Dewalt in Bible Study, Christ, Eschatology, God, Theology[Posted by Benjamin Thocher] At the beginning of John 15 Jesus says to disciples “I AM the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.” The rest of the chapter revolves around this illustration and what it means first of all for who Jesus is and secondly for who we are, as believers, in relationship [...]
(Posted by Dr. Jerry Bilkes) Ps. 1:2. His delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Adolphe Monod, the godly French preacher (1802-1856), made a very sobering, yet beneficial comment on Bible study. He wrote: “We must acknowledge that in the beginning of the study [...]
