No. 92: The Calf of the Purification Offering
BIBLICAL Horizons, No. 92 February, 1997 Copyright 1997 Biblical Horizons On the eighth day of the rite of "filling the hand," Aaron began his service at the altar. His first offering was a "calf"...
View ArticleNo. 34: Paperweights and the Puzzles of Secularism
OPEN BOOK, Views & Reviews, No. 34 Copyright (c) 1997 Biblical Horizons August, 1997 In his The Construction of Social Reality, Berkeley philosopher John Searle puzzles over the ontology of the...
View ArticleNo. 99: Passover and the Structure of Joshua 2
BIBLICAL Horizons, No. 99 Copyright 1997 Biblical Horizons November, 1997 The initial chapters of Joshua demonstrate that Joshua is a new Moses, completing the task that Moses began. Moses is named ten...
View ArticleNo. 99: Sovereignty and Self-Gift
BIBLICAL Horizons, No. 99 Copyright 1997 Biblical Horizons November, 1997 At the 1997 Biblical Horizons Summer Conference, the Rev. Jeffrey Meyers presented a series of remarkable lectures on the...
View ArticleNo. 99: Repoliticizing Jesus
BIBLICAL Horizons, No. 99 Copyright 1997 Biblical Horizons November, 1997 During the past two decades, the "quest of the historical Jesus" has entered a new phase. The first incarnation of the quest...
View ArticleNo. 114: Death and Resurrection of the Tabernacle
BIBLICAL Horizons, No. 114 Copyright (c) 1999 Biblical Horizons February, 1999 James Jordan has pointed out in Through New Eyes and elsewhere that the Mosaic system of worship comes to an end with the...
View ArticleNo. 114: Structure and Typology of the Bathsheba Incident
BIBLICAL Horizons, No. 114 Copyright (c) 1999 Biblical Horizons February, 1999 2 Samuel 11-12, which record David’s sin with Bathsheba and its aftermath, is structured chiastically: A. 11:1: Joab is on...
View ArticleNo. 115: The Blessing of Abraham
BIBLICAL Horizons, No. 115 Copyright (c) 1999 Biblical Horizons March, 1999 According to Galatians 3, Abraham heard the gospel when the Lord promised that "all the nations shall be blessed in you."...
View ArticleNo. 45: Jane Austen, Pundit
OPEN BOOK, Views & Reviews, No. 45 Copyright (c) 1999 Biblical Horizons April, 1999 Few novelists seem as innocent of the temptation to punditry as Jane Austen. Though living through a period that...
View ArticleNo. 129: Not Drunk As You Suppose
BIBLICAL Horizons, No. 129 Copyright (c) 2000 Biblical Horizons May, 2000 While Samuel’s mother Hannah prays at the tabernacle, the high priest Eli sees her lips moving silently and concludes that she...
View ArticleNo. 99: Passover and the Structure of Joshua 2
BIBLICAL Horizons, No. 99 Copyright 1997 Biblical Horizons November, 1997 The initial chapters of Joshua demonstrate that Joshua is a new Moses, completing the task that Moses began. Moses is named ten...
View ArticleNo. 114: Death and Resurrection of the Tabernacle
BIBLICAL Horizons, No. 114 Copyright (c) 1999 Biblical Horizons February, 1999 James Jordan has pointed out in Through New Eyes and elsewhere that the Mosaic system of worship comes to an end with the...
View ArticleNo. 115: The Blessing of Abraham
BIBLICAL Horizons, No. 115 Copyright (c) 1999 Biblical Horizons March, 1999 According to Galatians 3, Abraham heard the gospel when the Lord promised that "all the nations shall be blessed in you."...
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