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Teaching the Pentateuch: Challenges and Opportunities
Teaching Theology &Religion, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 81-83, July 2025.ABSTRACT What are best practices for teaching the Pentateuch and the Hebrew Bible more broadly? How can we introduce students to ways of reading biblical texts that are eye‐opening, empowering, and accessible? In this paper, I explore some of the challenges and opportunities that we face as biblical studies professors, and I profile a handful of ...
Sara Milstein
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Balaam’s God(s): Divine Designations in Num 22–24
Religions, 2023 The biblical figure of Balaam is ambivalent in many ways, including his religious affiliation. In the attestations of the Balaam tradition within the Hebrew Bible, different conceptions of this literary character are sometimes blended, sometimes ...
Anna Elise Zernecke
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The Grace of God in the Law of Moses: A Second Look at Israel’s Written Code [PDF]
, 2016 For centuries, the Mosaic Code (“MC”) has been viewed as Israel’s prescriptive legislation, whereby Jewish leaders were to judge infractions by the “letter of the law.” This view is one which permeates both pulpit and pew alike, even in this modern era ...
Krause, Jeffrey S
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Loving and Letting: A Constructive Reading of Genesis 1
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 148-165, April 2025.Abstract This essay evaluates possible meanings of God's creative ‘let’ in Genesis 1 in order to evaluate how God's generative love of creation forms a paradigm for human love. Beginning with the work of philosopher John Haugeland, who gives four possible meanings of letting‐be in his reading of Heidegger, this essay argues that creation is best ...
J. W. Olson
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“There he built an altar to the Lord” (Gen 12:8) City and Altar Building in Genesis
Old Testament Essays, 2019 This essay examines Genesis’ depiction of the contrast between patriarchal altar-building (בנה, 12:7, 8; 13:18; 22:9; 26:25; 35:7; cf. 8:20) and pre-patriarchal city-building (בנה, 4:17; 10:11; 11:4,).
Arie Leder
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Cult Statuary in the Judean Temple at Yeb [PDF]
, 2016 A revisitation of the Yeb archives with an eye to the question of cult statuary. The present article inventories the state of the question and makes several constructive suggestions.
Collin Cornell
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The Vices of Modernity: A Reply to ‘A Barthian Critique of Schleiermacher's Doctrine of God’
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 193-220, April 2025.Abstract There is a longstanding critique of Schleiermacher's theology which claims that, due to his account of the divine attributes, we cannot truly speak about God, but only about ourselves. This essay aims to refute this charge – often couched in charges of ‘subjectivism’ or ‘nominalism’ – by direct engagement with a recent and clear articulation ...
Daniel J. Pedersen
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Hebrews 5:7 as the Cry of the Davidic Sufferer [PDF]
, 2017 This article proposes a better source for the Son’s cry in Hebrews 5:7. It begins by surveying sources previous scholars have identified, including Jesus’ cry in Gethsemane and Golgotha, several Psalms, and the Maccabean martyr literature.
Timothy Bertolet
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Peace for Our Time : Reading Jonah in Dialogue with Abravanel in the Book of the Twelve [PDF]
, 2017 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia
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The Book of Genesis and other allegorical origin stories of games
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 1, Page 1-18, February 2025.Abstract This essay delves into the complex interplay between the sacred and the ludic, with a particular emphasis on allegorical origin stories from various religious and mythological traditions, highlighting their portrayal of games and the concept of play. The analysis includes the Judaeo‐Christian Book of Genesis and the Babylonian Enuma Elish.
Bo Kampmann Walther
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