Here is a chance to honor your spiritual heritage, to ponder that portion of written revelation which was written for your admonition upon whom the end of the ages has come, and to focus on one of the most important and instructive – if woefully under-appreciated – doctrines of Scripture. Celebrate Purim! Perhaps quietly – [...]
Archive for the ‘Old Testament’ Category
The Lot is Cast…The Disposing is of the Lord
Posted in Ahaseurus, Bookman, Esther, Mordecai, Old Testament, Purim on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Old Testament “Theocratic Anointing” of the Holy Spirit
Posted in Bookman, David, Moses, Prophet, Saul, Temple, Theocratic Anointing on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is much discussion – and much confusion – abroad today with regard to the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. I would not attempt a facile resolution to the many difficult aspects of that issue. But I would suggest that there is one element of the question which is much overlooked, [...]
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 [...]
Some Incendiary Thoughts
Posted in Bigamy, Bookman, Old Testament, Polygamy on August 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I am working through 1 Samuel for a Bible Study Series, and of course early on in the narrative I encountered the issue of polygamy. (Elkanah: “I’ve got two wives. Isn’t that bigamy!” It’s a joke, a pun of sorts!) I needed a resource to which I could direct the teachers to help them prepare [...]
Just How Old Was Saul?
Posted in Bookman, Old Testament, Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old, Saul on June 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I would like to suggest an understanding of an Old Testament passage which is dependent upon a discussion in an earlier blog entry which can be found here. Quite simply, that discussion considered a peculiar Hebrew idiom, the most familiar expression of which is the numerical proverbs found occasionally in the book of Proverbs. It [...]
Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old II
Posted in Bookman, New Testament, Old Testament, Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old, Siberia, Tomsk on May 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
From Tomsk, Siberia in Russia
Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old II
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.
The Old Testament thought form
There is a curious Hebraism which is very common in the Old Testament, but which [...]
Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old I
Posted in Bookman, New Testament, Old Testament, Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old, Siberia, Tomsk on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Tomsk, Siberia in Russia
It is my persuasion that one of the most important and defining hermeneutical insights to be brought to the interpretation of the New Testament is this: the writers of the New Testament wrote in Greek, but they thought in Hebrew. This is true to a degree more dramatic in some [...]
