The title of this article begins with a question: are Christians called to mature manhood? The answer is no, not all Christians are called to
The Christian church has a long tradition of systematic theology, that is, of studying biblical teaching on centrally important doctrines such as the Word of
Reframing the Debate over Figurative Meaning In the spring of 2015, I listened to my NT Greek professor explain different interpretive approaches to “For the
Hebrew nouns have grammatical gender, either feminine or masculine. Hebrew verbs distinguish masculine and feminine plurals as well as masculine and feminine singulars. English translations
This is the fourth and final blog entry on the topic of word studies—more specifically, on a few problems that sometimes work their way into
This is the third in a series of four blog entries about word studies and why they matter to egalitarians studying Scripture. The series points
This is the second in a series of four blog entries about word studies. The first explained that word studies sometimes give too much attention to
I once saw a bookmark that gave the meaning of the name Caleb as “Best Friend.” Actually, Caleb is from a Hebrew word meaning “dog.”
Throughout the Scriptures, God is described as acting in the personification of Wisdom, or Sophia.1 This is the basis for Catholic theologian Elizabeth Johnson’s appropriation
As we all know, Jacob (also called Israel) had twelve sons. You probably also know from the tragic story in Genesis 34 that Jacob had