Hermeneutics

For those of you who knew about and prayed for my recent open-heart surgery, I want to offer my deepest thanks. The...

A few weeks ago I was alerted to a criticism raised about an old blog post of mine—a post in which I...

It is refreshing to read a new commentary that not only says something new (i.e., it is not merely repeating what others...

A few years back I made a proposal that we replace the label “literal translation” with a better one—originalism—a term that has...

One of the most complex issues in biblical interpretation lies in understanding the ways in which later writers of Scripture used earlier...

I first came across the phrase “overrealized eschatology” in a seminary class on the exegesis of 1 Corinthians. The idea had been...

Analogies are powerful things, for they take something less known and put it beside something better known. The power of the analogy...

James 2 indicates that Abraham is justified by works (δικαιόω—Jas 2:21) when he presented Isaac on the altar (Gen 22). Paul indicates...

When we exegete a passage, three poles must always be in mind. First, there is a historical dimension to every text. This...

In this post I conclude a three-part series on intertextuality. I began by providing a brief history of the term and of...