The book of the Minor Prophets is a literary edifice, Jacob’s ziggurat awaiting its “New Testament” capstone from heaven. In the Hebrew Bible, the Minor Prophets, also referred to...
It was easier to take the Jews out of Babylon than it was to take the “Babylon” out of the Jews. It is apt...
As sphinxlike cherubim, the Prophets dealt in deathly riddles, but the answers to all their enigmas can be found in the books of Moses.
The modern practice of dismantling the Bible into a shambles of documents authored in response to disparate historical events rather than viewing it as...
Zechariah’s prophecy works from glory to glory, from Jerusalem below to the unshakeable one above.
The Covenant-literary shape of Psalm 8 allows David to make allusions to some surprising parts of the Torah as well as predicting the Temple...
The prophecies in the final chapters of Zechariah, taken in isolation, are extremely confusing. They seem to describe, very darkly, some events which took...
The significance of the prophet Daniel for the “death and resurrection” of the nation of Israel becomes clear when the sacrificial “matrix” is discerned...