Toward a Four-Source Hypothesis (That Is Not Trash)
If you missed the setup, it's pretty important, so I advise going back and reading it. Why Q? First of all, there's no reason to postulate Q in the first
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If you missed the setup, it's pretty important, so I advise going back and reading it. Why Q? First of all, there's no reason to postulate Q in the first
One of the major themes of the book, then, is that God keeps His promises. But there is another thread which runs through this story — that of human failure. 2 Kings ends with the people carried off into exile. Humanity cannot bring about God’s kingdom....
In some ways the story in 1 Kings (especially if we finish it up with 2 Kings) is the story of the Garden of Eden 2.0. It starts with God blessing humanity and putting them into a beautiful place. For Adam and Eve, it’s the Garden of Eden. For those in 1 ...
We might think that the Minor Prophets are less important than the Major Prophets. But that’s not what the word minor means here. “Minor” has more to do with their size and scope than it has to do with the respect which was held for the prophet whose...
It is impossible to ignore what is routinely viewed as the grave moral problem of the book of Joshua, namely, the action of the Israelites in exterminating the Canaanites.