History of Biblical Interpretation
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This article examines the incongruity between most modern translations of Jonah 3:3 and ancient textual and archaeological evidence concerning the size of Nineveh. Every modern solution intended to reconcile a literal rendering of the... more
This chapter examines some of the assumptions that are typically employed when dealing with the development of the Hebrew Bible. The first part of the chapter is a critique of the very term "Jewish Bible." It points out some of the... more
This essay was published in The Bible and Early Trinitarian Theology, edited by Christopher A. Beeley and Mark E. Weedman, for the CUAP Studies in Early Christianity (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2018); this is the... more
Michael Segal, “Interpreting History in Qumran Texts,” in M. Kister, M. Segal, and R. Clements (eds.), The Religious Worldviews Reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center... more
A provisional parallel-column translation of the Preface and Chapter 1 of Theodoret's Commentary on the Song of Songs.
This work is concerned with some basic problems which historical criticism poses to biblical interpretation. The first chapter deals with historical criticism in relation to problems of the text’s historical distance and contemporary... more
A revised translation & notes for St. Cyril's extended discussion of the Tabernacle in "De adoratione" (Book 9).
Go here for uncorrected proofs: http://kellenplaxco.weebly.com/uploads/2/6/5/4/26547638/vc_070_04_1277-plaxco.pdf This article provides an account of Didymus’s subtle attention to theological nuance and invites readers to reconsider his... more
A gift to my brothers and sisters in posterity...
Criticism of myth in the Bible is not a modern problem. Its roots go back to the earliest Christian theologians, and before them, to ancient Greek and Jewish thinkers. The dilemma posed by texts that ascribe human characteristics and... more
This paper aims at highlighting a methodological flaw in current biblical archaeology, which became apparent as a result of recent research in the Aravah's Iron Age copper production centers. In essence, this flaw, which cuts across all... more
עם התחזקותה של מתודת הפשט בפרשנות המקרא בימי-הביניים עמדה על הפרק שאלת יחסם של הפרשנים למתודה המדרשית, ובפרט למדרשי האגדה. בסוגיית זו דנו חכמים ומלומדים רבים. במאמרנו נתייחס לפן ספציפי של הדיון הזה – בסתירה לכאורה בין כללי לשון וסגנון... more
Philosophers have often described theism as the belief in the existence of a “perfect being”—a being that is said to possess all possible perfections, so that it is all-powerful, all-knowing, immutable, perfectly good, perfectly simple,... more
The year 538 A.D. became the turning point in the history of the Roman Empire since so many aspects on political, administrative and economical levels were already switched off that when Justinian declared himself to be a theologian from... more
A critical analysis of the claim that Pietists had a view of the Bible that allowed for errors in historical matters or matters other than for spiritual life and faith. This study focuses on the preeminent Pietist, J. A. Bengel, and his... more
Three commentaries on Ecclesiastes represent renewed academic interest in theological interpretation of Scripture (TIS), as well as the evolving relationship between biblical and contemporary theologies. Despite the focus on Ecclesiastes,... more
Gregory of Nazianzus (c. 329–390 AD) developed a robustly Trinitarian framework for biblical interpretation. Understanding his pneumatological conception of illumination and deification enables us to understand his distinction between... more
‘Adomnán’s Plans in the Context of his Imagining ‘the Most Famous City,’ Proceedings of the British Academy 175(2012)15-40.
In Amanda W. Benckhuysen’s invaluable work, she introduces women interpreters’ forgotten voices. Benckhuysen unveils the women’s forgotten counter readings of biblical texts that, as traditionally interpreted, had negatively affected... more
The growing dissatisfaction of current scholars with the meagre results produced by the use of modern analytic categories to explain early Christian exegesis calls for developing alternate analyses. Recent studies in ancient philosophy... more
Available solely from Apple iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/king-david-and-his-reign-revisited/id741571300?mt=11 Of all the Bible’s personalities, David is the most profoundly human. Courageous, cunning, and complex, he lives... more
The purpose of this research paper is to show that literal hermeneutics and inerrancy have an inseparable relationship by demonstrating that while inerrancy is not a hermeneutical tool, sound hermeneutics cannot exist without it.... more
The Bible and Interpretation (March 2017).
What is the relationship between the Bible and philosophy? Several recent scholarly ventures pursue this question to various ends. The Society of Biblical Literature has a new program unit dedicated to Hebrew Bible and philosophy, which... more
John's Logos-hymn reflect a response to the Johannine narrative, functioning with other Christological hymns to pose a Jewish challenge to Empire and its divine-Caesar cult. It is added to the final edition of John as an experientially... more
This essay is slated to appear in the festschrift for Alan Culpepper in Brill's Biblical Interpretation Series (2018), Anatomies of the Gospels and Beyond, edited by Mikeal Parsons, Elizabeth Stuthers Malbon, and myself. This essay... more
An edited collection, with contributions in German and English, examining the philosophical, theological, and historical work of the influential Tübingen scholar.
Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2020.
Recensión (en español) de dicho libro (en español).
Although Habakkuk 2:4b is used within soteriological discussions, there remains a question for modern believers to answer: Does the faithfulness of the believer or the faithfulness of the Lord lead to salvation? There are three classical... more
This study has been limited to the question of how suppositions about the nature of the text and about language affected interpretation in the ancient world. Other presuppositions and procedures, such as the criteria of «fittingness for... more