In this post, I am going to cover chapters 4-5 of Provan, Long, and Longman’s book, A Biblical History of Israel. Chapter 4 is entitled “Narrative and History—S...
King David and the Kingdom of Israel It is in the book of I Samuel where we find the Hebrews demanding to have a king. YHWH did not want them to have a king lik...
The Old Testament is a collection of 39 books, written roughly over a span of 1,000 years, and it covers the entire history of ancient Israel. It contains narra...
Mass genocide. Ethnic cleansing. An ancient form of colonialism. Cruel, superstitious, fanatical, barbarous war criminals no different than Nazis. That’s the an...
In his final chapter of Inspiration and Incarnation, Peter Enns devotes his time addressing a topic that most Christians, if they admit it, really don’t get: ho...
In chapter 3 of Pete Enns’ book, Inspiration and Incarnation, he deals with another topic that can tend to make Evangelicals rather uneasy. Simply put, Enns say...
So what was it about Inspiration and Incarnation by Peter Enns that was so controversial? When I first read it back in 2005, I found it to be an insightful, hon...
Currently, I am devoting a lot of time to finishing up my translation of the Major and Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. One of the things I am including in ...
In yesterday’s post, I gave “Part 1” to my explanation as to how understand the Old Testament story. Here is “Part 2.” If you want...
I think it is safe to say that, outside of a few famous Sunday School versions of a few Old Testament stories, a handful of Psalms, and a number of select Prove...