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Blood Moons Rising: The World Is About to End
We are finally going to get what so many of us have been eagerly awaiting: the end of the world. It is near, and this time it is for real. The harbinger of the apocalyptic…
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Seven Reasons to Read Leviticus
According to Torsten, a good friend with whom I worked in the School of Biblical Studies for many years, this is the most important book in the Pentateuch. I disagree, of course. My wife thinks…
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How Ancient Rhetoric Helps Us to Understand the Bible Better (II)
For April of this year, I dedicated a post issue to the subject of socio-rhetorical criticism. One fascinating takeaway from that exercise was the realization that most NT letters are not really letters as much…
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Get Your Digital Toolbox Now!
The blog post for this month is short. It merely serves to introduce the new eBook with links to internet resources and Bible software. This month’s content is to be found there, not in this…
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One Year Anniversary; Plus: Disentangling the Knot of 1 John
This issue of Create a Learning Site marks one year of blog post and training letter writing. The first post and letter, which wrestled with the cryptic second half of Zechariah, appeared on 5 May…
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A Fresh Look at Old Letters: Socio-Rhetorical Criticism
With this subject, I am taking you along on my own recent learning experience. Socio-rhetorical criticism is a relatively new approach in biblical studies, and I have taken some time to get to know it…
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Creative Meditations Using Stations
My first encounter with creative meditations in the form of stations was in 2010 when we came to Spain to do the Leadership Development Course (LDC). On our first full day together, after an impressive…
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Six Reasons to Read the Book of Numbers
When Was the Last Time You Read the Book of Numbers? I read the book to write this letter, of course, just so that I could have Uncle Sam point his finger at you! Seriously…
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The Power of Story: How Paul Quotes Deuteronomy 30 in Romans 10
Things I Am Learning from N.T. Wright’s Colossal Book on Paul, Part 2 In Romans 10, Paul contrasts works-based righteousness with righteousness based on faith, illustrating both by quoting a verse from the Torah. For…
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How to Study (and Teach) a Big Book
Here is the bottom line right at the start: to successfully study a big book you have to make it a priority and allocate time to it, or it is not going to happen. But…
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The Emperor’s New Clothes: The Imperial Cult in the Roman Empire
Things I Am Learning from N. T. Wright’s Colossal Book on Paul, Part 1 I started reading Paul and the Faithfulness of God during the Christmas break and now, more than 10 months later, I am…
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Who Is “I” in Romans 7? And: A Fresh Look at Romans 1-8
Paul’s epistle to the Romans is a book I taught quite a bit during my early years in the School of Biblical Studies, but not much at all in later years. In the course of…