Theology Thursday: Something to Sing About
Reading the Bible can be interesting sometimes, just trying to figure out what it is, exactly, I’m reading. There’s some history, which would seem fairly straightforward, but even then I know that...
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Theology Thursday: Numbers in Numbers
I'll just come out and say it: I think the Book of Numbers gets a bad rap. And I think it comes from the title. Did you know that the title "Numbers" comes from the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint)...
View ArticleTheology Thursday Lite: Promise Fulfilled
In case you weren’t aware, there are some people out there who believe that God hasn’t yet fulfilled all his promises to Israel. Certainly there are a lot of promises to deal with, but one of them...
View ArticleTheology Thursday Tidbit: Shibboleth
At some point I need to do a few posts on significant words and terms that have come down into our culture through the Bible. But for today, I’m going to go with a lesser-known one: Shibboleth. Of...
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Theology Thursday: Ruth, Yibbum, and Halizah
Well, I know that everyone probably looks at that title and knows exactly what I’ll be writing about today, but perhaps I should explain it for the very few who might be puzzled by it. (This is my...
View ArticleTheology Thursday: More Evidence of Jephthah’s Innocence
This post is a follow-up to one I did back in February, wherein I argued that Jephthah (full story here), while being an idiot for making a rash vow, did not commit the abomination of human sacrifice...
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Theology Thursday, Friday Edition: Crack up the Stereo, and Uzzah
Once again I’m too lazy to do my Theology Thursday posts on, you know, Thursday. But I’m making up for it by covering two topics. That’s right…extra free theology. Though I suppose it’s all free on...
View ArticleTheology Thursday Lite: The Not-so-Lost Tribes of Israel
If you google “Ten Lost Tribes of Israel,” you’ll get more than 400,000 hits. It’s a popular topic, and there are fanciful imaginings aplenty about where they might be. The problem is that the tribes...
View ArticleWhy It’s Important to Read the Whole Bible: Manasseh
I’m actually a bit shocked I haven’t written about this before. Seriously. Shocked. I mean, I’ve been doing theology posts since 2006, here. My control panel tells me I’ve written more than a...
View ArticleMinor Thoughts on the Minor Prophets, Part I: Hosea
We interrupt your regularly-scheduled book review nonsense for a THEOLOGY POST!!!! Please try to remain calm. (For anyone new, I used to do about a theology post per week, normally titled Theology...
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