Archive - Intertextual Bible

Changing More Divine Speech

When Tradition Trumps the Text, even when God Speaks

Jul 19 •

Intertextual Bible

The Torah-Centered Piety of Psalm 119

The Text as the Focus of Devotion

Jul 13 •

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The Flexibility behind 2 Peter 3:12

Accelerating the End

Jul 10 •

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The Ancient Near Eastern Background of 2 Samuel 1:21

An Ugaritic Source to Fix a Translation Challenge

Jul 5 •

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Circumscribing a Strange Circumcision

Exodus 4:24-26 in Reception History

Jul 2 •

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June 2025

Talking Snakes and Literal Interpretations

One Persons' Literal is Another's Literary

Jun 29 •

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Matthew 5:38 and the Antithesis of the Antitheses

Making Fences around the Torah

Jun 22 •

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Generosity, Stewardship, and Faithfulness

A Core Tradition

Jun 19 •

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Genesis 2:2 and the Seventh (or Sixth?) Day

When Tradition Trumps the Text

Jun 14 •

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The Ancient Near Eastern Background of the Tower of Babel

The Political Tug-of-War in Genesis 11

Jun 8 •

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May 2025

Matthew and the Targum of Psalm 118

Does Matthew Incorporate an Early Targum Tradition?

May 31 •

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Harmonization in Nehemiah 9:13

How the Hebrew Bible Attempts to Reconcile Diverse Traditions

May 25 •

Intertextual Bible

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