In Luke 1, Mary’s song sounds nothing like Christmas as we understand it. This is because Mary understood Christmas in its covenant context. Here, at last, was the firstborn...
The Psalms were all composed with the history, images and patterns of the Torah in mind. So it makes sense if the arrangement of...
The prophecies in the final chapters of Zechariah, taken in isolation, are extremely confusing. They seem to describe, very darkly, some events which took...
Psalm 1 and the Revelation Although the Covenant-literary “matrix” is consistent throughout the Bible, the biblical authors quite often play with it to make...
Just as the Tabernacle was a “microcosmos” which served as a sacrificial substitute for the world, so John 1 presents Jesus as a human...
The shape of the book of Revelation is the key to its meaning, and this shape is found throughout the Bible right from its...
The phrase “no male and female” in Galatians 3:28 is an allusion whose meaning is revealed only through an analysis of the literary structure.
Every one of God’s houses throughout Bible history has “former days” and “latter days.” This pattern of construction and reconstruction is a process of...
The fact that the order of the Old Testament canon is different in the Hebrew Bible from the Christian Bible shows that the books can...
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Fifteen of the Psalms (120-134) begin with the words, “A song of ascents.” The title may indicate that these were sung by worshipers ascending the road to Jerusalem...