…essential to provide political and social as well as literary context for Scripture. Here is an argument for “both / and” rather than “either / or.” Scripture can be interpreted…
…to which we may appeal for help. At the same time, I am reminded by Sunder John Boopalan, in last week’s Politics of Scripture post, that we must read such…
…were powerful despots, children were bound to be tyrants. This understanding prompts many of the generational condemnations in Scripture that modern individualists like me find so puzzling and disturbing (e.g.,…
…its persons. It is, in fact, a general and abstract love that often becomes complicit in ways of death. God’s “wonderful deeds” (Psalm 111:4) are often remembered in scripture as…
…As many biblical scholars or homileticians will confirm, a person or community’s interpretation of scripture depends heavily on their own positionality and cultural context. As a young adult steeped in…
…both Peter and the “other disciple” (presumably John) have seen the empty tomb, we have been told that “they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from…
…and bending towards vulnerable others animates the whole arc of scripture, including throughout the Psalms and Isaiah. Inherent in such a recognition is an accompanying biblical case for binaries that…
…insisting that unless marriage is a social construct, property must not be either. But this simply draws attention to the difference between the two in Scripture. We know that marriage…
…the Red Sea (verses 6-7). The prominence of these rivers and bodies of water in Joshua’s account is noteworthy. Throughout Scripture the crossings of such water bodies represent transitions from…
…It is the experience of parousia—God’s dwelling and God’s Kingdom on earth. How is it achieved? In God’s time and through God’s power, of course, but Scripture suggests that our…
…so, it is not entirely surprising to me that in their bowdlerization of the Scripture text, the Revised Lectionary committee chose to omit these two verses from the reading. Perhaps…
…on the Politics of Scripture blog on May 31, 2021. In Christianity, the idea of being made in the image of God is so beguiling that the concept emerges as…