In an earlier blog, I suggested that passages traditionally understood by distinguishing between “positional” and “conditional” reality would be better perceived as NT uses of the OT rhetorical device known as the “prophetic perfect.” Having briefly made that case, I would like to take it one more tentative step. Let me first of all say [...]
Archive for January, 2009
A Moment on the Edge
Posted in Bookman, Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old, Prophetic Perfect on January 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old III
Posted in Bookman, New Testament, Old Testament, Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old, Prophetic Perfect on January 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Being an attempt to make full proof of the following proposition:
The writers of the New Testament wrote in Greek, but they thought in Hebrew.
In my mind, one of the most compelling evidences of that remarkable intellectual habit of mind is that Hebrew grammatical nuances – forms which are foreign to the Greek language – are [...]
Here! Here! For the Backwaters
Posted in Bookman, Crossroads, Update on January 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »
There is in the 21st century evangelical world a staggering asymmetry between what is being done and what is being talked about. The great preponderance of attention is given to the few celebrated ministries (perhaps, God forbid, “celebrity ministries”) which live in the limelight, but the great preponderance of God’s work is done by the [...]
MINISTRY REPORT: CROSSROADS BIBLE COLLEGE
Posted in Bookman, Crossroads, Update on January 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When? January 5 – 8, 2009
Where? Crossroads Bible College, Indianapolis, IN
What? Teaching Module: Biblical Theology of Old Testament Temple Worship
Crossroads Bible College is a remarkably strategic ministry, carefully and sacrificially training men and women for ministry, largely in urban settings. I have long admired Crossroads from afar, and had gotten to know some of the [...]
