by admin | Apr 8, 2015 | Forgiven or Passed Over?, Section Three
I studied ʽâbar through Genesis. Nothing so far justifies translating it forgiven in Nathan’s response to David’s confession—Yes, and the Lord has forgiven (ʽâbar, העביר; Septuagint: παρεβίβασεν) your sin.[1] But ʽâbar kept some evocative company for anyone studying...
by admin | Feb 20, 2013 | Forgiveness, Genesis, Section Two, The Fear of the Lord
So Judah and his brothers came back to Joseph’s house.1 Suddenly Judah, though not the eldest, has taken the lead in the narrative. He and his brothers threw themselves to the ground before2 Joseph. We are now my lord’s slaves, we and the one in whose possession...
by admin | Jul 25, 2012 | Chapter 1, Romans, Section Two
By the time he wrote his letter to the Romans Paul was back. He abandoned all pretense of being concerned about nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.1 His letter began with a history lesson like those he preached at Pisidian Antioch and Athens. ...
by admin | May 28, 2012 | Section One
I have gone through similar changes in my response to Paul as those I mentioned in response to Jesus. There was a time when I thought Paul had written extraordinary claims, statements so exaggerated that they should never be taken literally or at face value. Not the...
by admin | May 17, 2012 | A Monotonous Cycle, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
Though I’ve been proposing that God intervened in Israel’s history to divide the kingdom of Israel, his primary method seems to have been nonintervention. God allowed people who rebelled against him by seeking a king in the first place to continue on that same...