A study of the Nephilim—focusing on Genesis 6:1–4 (and Num 13:33) with related biblical and early Jewish/Christian witnesses. English is ESV; Hebrew/Greek are from MT…
Difficult Passages
Studies of Difficult-to-Understand Passages
Gospel Accounts Apparent Divergences And Reliability
A study of apparent divergences in the Gospel accounts—with special focus on the angels at the tomb and Jesus’ “last words.” I use ESV as…
Jesus’s Limited Knowledge – Mark 13:32
A study of Mark 13:32 (“Jesus’s limited knowledge”) within the Olivet Discourse. I use ESV as the English base; for Greek I give NA28/UBS5 readings…
Trinity, The
Aim & Thesis Aim. Demonstrate from Scripture (with original-language analysis) that God is one in essence and eternally three in person—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—without…
Lot Offers His Daughters To The Immoral Men – Genesis 19:8
Text (ESV): “Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as…
Elisha Cursing Youth and the Bears -2 Kings 2:23-24
2 Kings 2:23–24 (ESV) — Prophetic narrative; covenant-lawsuit sign in a transition pericope (Elijah → Elisha). Text (ESV)23 He went up from there to Bethel,…
Lev 12, and the question of why a woman unclean longer if she gives birth to a female?
Passage & Genre Leviticus 12 (ESV) — Priestly instruction; ritual purity law concerning postpartum impurity and completion offerings (community holiness/sanctuary-access regulations). Text focus (ESV key…
Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock! Psalm 137:7-9
Passage & Genre Psalm 137:7–9 (ESV) — Imprecatory lament (community lament with judicial petitions).Imprecation appears in vv. 8–9 via two macarisms (“Blessed is the one…”),…