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The unnamed prophet of Joshua 6 recalls the words of Joshua, revealing a need for Israel’s savior

In both cases, the word fear is used in connection to Israel’s disposition: Israel was to fear the LORD and not fear the gods of the Amorites.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Judges
- Judges 6:1-32

The Scripture’s Account of Gideon: Preliminary Considerations

The narrative of scripture as a bulwark against moralism

It is true that [the preacher] must highlight the historical and practical significance that describes and prescribes human obligation; but most fundamentally, he must speak to those revelatory features of scripture that highlight the character and work of God.

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Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

The Dharmaśāstras: The Reordering of the World, One More Time

The emergence of the Hindu Dharmaśāstra texts in India as polemical rhetoric

To say, as the Dharmaśāstras do, that some people know dharma is to also say that others do not. There is, then, not only a stated purpose to the Dharmaśāstras, but one that is set in a telling awareness of disagreement and debate.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Acts of the Apostles
- Acts 2:1-13

Reading the Old Testament by the New (& the New by the Old)

The Christian reads as did the prophets, by the Spirt and in search of Jesus Christ

The Pentecost feast found its expected celebration in the usual sequence of Jewish festival days that became part of the Jewish calendar in connection with the Exodus. Pentecost was, accordingly, an annual Jewish festival; but this particular Pentecost found a unique situation and expression because it succeeded Jesus’ recent resurrection.

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Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

What Text will now Define & Describe Ontology?

Being & Act in a Brief Assessment of Vedantic Philosophy

If Western modern philosophy is to be faulted for its own Enlightenment presuppositions—ironically ill-disposed as it became to the Biblical revelation, also—so must the Indian schools face the nature and source of their own most basic assumptions.

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