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Category: Studies
Topical biblical theology, apologetics, Christology, history, and ethics.
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Beyond the Epistemological Divide: Ancient Near Eastern Literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Cosmic Architecture of the Divine Promise-Plan
This essay examines how ancient Near Eastern literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls illuminate Scripture’s textual history, divine council language, and cosmic rebellion narratives within the unified trajectory of God’s promise-plan.
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Mark 7 Deconstructed: Exegetical, Grammatical, and Canonical Foundations of Purity in the Divine Promise-Plan
Engaging Tim Hegg and recent scholarship, this essay reexamines Mark 7 through Jewish purity debates and Greek syntax. It argues that the passage defends written Torah against human tradition rather than abolishing dietary distinctions.
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Corrupting the Corruption: The Parable of the Leaven (Matthew 13:33), Subversive Kingdom Infiltration, and the Canonical Architecture of Promise-Plan Theology
This study reads Matthew 13:33 as a provocative image of hidden kingdom transformation. Engaging Thomas Long and promise-plan theology, it explores the woman’s action, leaven’s symbolism, banquet abundance, and patient, non-coercive witness.
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Beyond the Persian Gulf: Why the Search for Eden Misses the Cosmic Mountain
Responding to Persian Gulf and other geographical proposals, this essay reads Eden as sacred mountain and sanctuary. It argues that Genesis’ canonical purpose centers on divine presence, human vocation, exile, and promised restoration.
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The Logic of History and the Climax of Promise: Historiographical Method, Epistolary Bedrock, and the Historical Jesus within Canonical Theology
Engaging Paul Barnett and G. R. Elton, this essay examines historical method, early Pauline evidence, and inference to the best explanation as controls on reconstructions of Jesus and the origins of apostolic faith.
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The Linguistic Horizon of the Messiah: Stanley E. Porter, the Greek Dialect of First-Century Palestine, and the Unfolding of the Divine Promise-Plan
Drawing on Stanley Porter, this study weighs the multilingual setting of Roman Palestine, Galilean geography, inscriptions, and Gospel encounters to argue for Jesus’ capacity to teach in Greek within His Jewish mission.
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The Architecture of Uncreated Light: Meredith G. Kline’s Glory-Dimension, Two-Register Cosmology, and the Cosmic Sanctuary within the Promise-Plan of God
Meredith Kline’s two-register cosmology is examined through divine glory, palace-temple imagery, and the promise-plan’s movement toward God’s dwelling with humanity.
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The Triune God of the Promise-Plan: Biblical Theology, Hebraic Monotheism, and the Inter-Religious Critique of Islamic Tawḥīd
The essay traces Trinitarian confession through the biblical promise-plan and compares Christian and Islamic accounts of divine unity, revelation, and relational attributes.
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Beyond the Machine Metaphor: Systems Biology, Organismal Agency, and the Re-Enchantment of the Living World
Denis Noble’s systems-biology critique frames an examination of gene-centered reductionism, organismal agency, and biblical accounts of living wholeness.
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