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Why is Lazarus in the tomb four days?
How symbolic exegesis can reveal the meanings of seemingly “inicidental” details.
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A tentative translation of Psalm 1
Following on from my translation of Psalm 47, here is one I have been working on for some time, of a psalm I especially love.
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A tentative translation of Psalm 47
A brief example, with notes, of how I believe we ought to handle scripture in English.
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How “coming forth” is cursed in Judges 9
Even innocuous and ubiqituous words can take on sinister shades and cursed implications, when we are attentive to their “heads.”
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Is Trick-or-Treat a liturgical parade?
Modern Halloween is the epitome of blaspheming glorious ones.
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Ascending the way of barking and exaltation
An imaginative/integrative reading of Gideon’s military navigation
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Holographic hermeneutics
In defense of receiving, rather than “correcting,” confusing readings in scripture.
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Why Sunday is the new (Christian) sabbath
Why has the church, from the book of Acts onward, always rested and worshiped on the first day of the week, rather than the seventh?
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The symbolism of salt
Salt is the earthy equivalent of fire; hence Deuteronomy describes God cursing the land in terms of his burning it “with sulfur and salt…like the…
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Cretanous hogs and AI slop
AI slop follows the same pattern as Jewish fables in Titus 1.
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What to do if your house is haunted
A brief primer, with fewer explanations than are probably warranted or necessary, but one very interesting anecdote.
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The symbolism of sacrifices
In sacrifice we offer of our substance, because ultimately we are offering ourselves.
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