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September 2004

September 01, 2004
Glory Beyond the Kings of the Earth, 1 Kings 4-5 INTRODUCTION In 1 Kings 3,...

August 2004

August 30, 2004
Barth argues in CD 1/1 that the generation of the Son is not only antecedent...
August 30, 2004
Oliver O’Donovan’s Just War Revisited (reviewed in the August 13 TLS ) presents just war...
August 30, 2004
That is, Bill Clinton’s My Life , which David Frum reviews in the Sept issue...
August 30, 2004
Is identical repetition possible? It would seem not. Sequence A (say, a musical theme) is...
August 29, 2004
1 Kings 3:15 The story of Solomon?s request for and reception of wisdom is framed...
August 29, 2004
Earlier this month, we celebrated the end of the first year of our existence as...
August 29, 2004
There’s a fairly neat chiasm in the first part of Rom 7: a. law rules...
August 28, 2004
Eyes, Jim Jordan constantly points out, are organs of judgment. God “sees” the light and...
August 28, 2004
It seems that Solomon begins his reign with a breach of the law. Deuteronomy 7:3-4...
August 28, 2004
It seems that Solomon begins his reign with a breach of the law. Deuteronomy 7:3-4...
August 26, 2004
Again, a wooden, unpolished, but perhaps helpful translation. And Shlomoh became son-in-law to Pharaoh king...
August 26, 2004
Stephen M. Barr offers a hilarious review of Richard Dawkins’s latest, A Devil’s Chaplain in...
August 26, 2004
CP Snow famously lamented the division of Western culture into separate worlds of Science and...
August 26, 2004
In a brief article in the August 6 TLS , Stephen Brown reflects on the...
August 25, 2004
Wisdom To Do Justice, 1 Kings 3:1-28 INTRODUCTION 1 Kings 3 is divided into three...
August 22, 2004
Welcome back to the students. As you are starting a new year of school, you...
August 22, 2004
1 Kings 2:7 Most of chapter 2 is concerned with ?establishing?ESolomon?s kingdom, and this can...
August 21, 2004
Well, that’s quite a long title for a short post. In any case: The apparent...
August 20, 2004
You know what the Lord requires of you in your marriage. You heard Genesis 2...
August 20, 2004
The name Maacah occurs several times in Scripture, most frequently in connection with Absalom. Maacah...
August 20, 2004
Why is the location of Joab?s house mentioned (1 Ki 2:34)? The wilderness is the...
August 20, 2004
Why is the location of Joab?s house mentioned (1 Ki 2:34)? The wilderness is the...
August 20, 2004
Solomon clearly considers his execution of Joab to be an act of justice: Yahweh is...
August 20, 2004
Solomon clearly considers his execution of Joab to be an act of justice: Yahweh is...
August 20, 2004
A rough and wooden translation of 1 Kings 2. And drew near the days of...
August 19, 2004
The late Allan Bloom points out in his interpretive essay on Plato’s Republic that Socrates’...
August 18, 2004
According to Robert Solomon’s account, Romanticism did not LEAD to nationalism; it was nationalism. In...
August 17, 2004
Solomon?s Kingdom Established, 1 Kings 2:1-46 INTRODUCTION 1 Kings 2 consists of two large scenes....
August 16, 2004
Wilfred McClay reviews two recent biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne in the August 23 Weekly Standard...
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